at this point, if the price stays at $130 a pop, its all not going to matter.
TO register a .xxx domain at a cost of $130 I'd be shocked to see them get more than 20K registrations, with a less than 50% renewal rate the following year. Since a nice chunk of that will be going to the resellers (and some to IFFOR) it would take Lawley a couple years to make back what he has spent over the last 10 years, not counting his on going over head costs.
$130 price tag is the best thing that is going to kill it. They will be so little registrations and interest at that point it will become irrelevant, will get very little media hype and very little word of mouth, hell most people wont even know .xxx exists if they stick with that price tag. It will fad away, be a flop and lessen the chances that the govt even tries to force us over to it. Thank god for dumb greed, it saved the day in this situation yet again.
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