.xxx extortion??? - GoFuckYourself.com

charlie g · 06-26-2011, 10:29 PM

Forgive me guys if this has been gone over before because I havent been keeping up with it as close as I should I guess.

Recently got the below email from a registrar which appears to me as extortion. I have domains with several registrars but this is the only one to send an email like this. Seems like a big money grab even if nobody actually uses the .xxx extensions.

Quote:

Dear Customer,

Gandi rarely sends out unsolicited emails, but when we do, it is only in
very special cases. We are taking the liberty of contacting you today
because you are a Gandi customer (with handle XXXXXXXXX-GANDI) and we would
like to inform you of an important event that may be pertinent to you.

Our primary activity is domain name management. It is therefore our duty
to inform you of a new extension (one that may be a bit controversial)
that is about to arrive on the public domain name market: .XXX

The registry in charge of this extension will allow registered trademark
holders to 'block' domains corresponding to their trademark so that is
is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the
said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes.

Beginning on September 1st 2011, .XXX will be the primary extension for
websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry.

As a concrete example, we are going to reserve GANDI.XXX ourselves, so
that nobody else can purchase that domain and use it as they wish in
the future.

One of the particularities of this blockage is that once the domain is
blocked, it cannot be used. Therefore, once we reserve GANDI.XXX, we
will be unable to manage it or even forward it to GANDI.NET: it will
simply be reserved and rendered non-operational.

The second particularity is that the blockage is only paid once: you
pay $200.00 (135.00 or 150.00) excl. VAT for every
trademark/company name that you want to block, and you will not need to
renew this blockage.

There are nonetheless some restrictions with regards to blocking a .XXX
domain name: you must be the legal trademark holder and provide
documents that prove this. Once the information has been verified, and
if you are not in competition with another company with the same
trademark as yours at the end of the pre-registration period (Sunrise),
the domain name will be permanently blocked. No further action will be
possible with this domain, not even a transfer.

If, on the other hand, you are competing with a company with the same
trademark as you, there are two cases:

- The person in question is part of the adult entertainment industry
(Type A): your blockage request will be communicated to this company,
and they will have the possibility of withdrawing their reservation
request. Nonetheless, if it is maintained, the domain will be
attributed to them. Any recovery of the domain must therefore pass by
judicial means (ICANN).
- The person, like yourself, is pursuing brand protection (Type B) :
the Registry will take into account all identical blockage
requests and will register them. Since the domain is blocked, it
belongs to nobody.

Keep in mind that in any case, no brand protection request will be
refunded by the Registry, even if the domain was registered by a type
A customer.

WARNING: Brand protection will only be possible during the 30-day
Sunrise period starting on September 1st 2011 and ending on the 30th.
Beyond this date, brand protection requests will be ignored. Also,
please be aware that the general opening of .XXX will be reserved to the
adult entertainment industry, with a systematic verification of
registrations. This means, therefore, that the only opportunity to
protect your brands is within this so-called 'sunrise' period.

For more information on the launching and the brand protection phases of
the .XXX extension, please visit the gandibar at
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2011/06/07/Release-of-XXX

Sincerely
Nicolas Lhuillery
Product Director
Gandi - http://www.gandi.net

baddog · 06-26-2011, 10:32 PM

Beginning on September 1st 2011, .XXX will be the primary extension for
websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry.
^Not true^

JFK · 06-26-2011, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

Beginning on September 1st 2011, .XXX will be the primary extension for
websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry.
^Not true^

depends on who you ask

Redrob · 06-26-2011, 11:08 PM

I am going to stick with the .coms.

I think .XXX will be a major fail.

Too many conflicts with existing trademark holders to be successful in my opinion.

Just write ICM and put them on notice that if they sell your mark, you will sue for damages.

munki · 06-26-2011, 11:33 PM

baddog · 06-27-2011, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JFK

depends on who you ask

Don't confuse him.

u-Bob · 06-27-2011, 01:19 AM

Got the same email from gandi 2 weeks ago. I had 72 domains there and moved them all away.

To be honest, this is actually a good sign. The ICM knows their intended audience is not interested in buying .xxx domains so now they are trying to scare mainstream businesses in paying some useless protection fee.

On Gandi: As a registrar offering your clients the ability to register .xxx domains is one thing. Spreading FUD to scare your clients into buying protecting is whole other thing.

Fuck the .xxx tld, fuck the icm registry, fuck gandi.

NetHorse · 06-27-2011, 01:26 AM

"No bullshit".

MrCain · 06-27-2011, 01:53 AM

.xxx supporters suck donkey ass.

Dirty Dane · 06-27-2011, 01:54 AM

If the blockage was meant for every single extension it would be common sense. But with .xxx only, imagine the headlines.

Freaky_Akula · 06-27-2011, 01:55 AM

No to dotXXX!

InfoGuy · 06-27-2011, 04:42 PM

Maybe Islamic militants will find out ICM Registry is going to mock their religion with Islam.XXX, Muslim.XXX, Quran.XXX or Muhammed.XXX These types of names will probably not be eligible for brand protection. Salman Rushdie was put on a global hit list for writing "The Satanic Verses".

Alprazolam · 06-27-2011, 04:49 PM

"Beginning on September 1st 2011, .XXX will be the primary extension for
websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry."

marcop · 06-27-2011, 05:27 PM

"The registry in charge of this extension will allow registered trademark holders to 'block' domains corresponding to their trademark so that is is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes."

Isn't this redundant? Suddenly trademark holders need to buy a .xxx domain to protect their trademark? That makes no sense to me.

InfoGuy · 06-27-2011, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcop

"The registry in charge of this extension will allow registered trademark holders to 'block' domains corresponding to their trademark so that is is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes."

Isn't this redundant? Suddenly trademark holders need to buy a .xxx domain to protect their trademark? That makes no sense to me.

This is exactly what ICM Registry and their registrars are doing. Fucking hypocrites.

BFT3K · 06-27-2011, 05:40 PM

All .XXX websites contain viruses inherently. Their business model is designed to force surfers to buy expensive virus protection software, otherwise their computers will be attacked.

Surfers aren't going to like these gangster-like methods devised by the .XXX thieves. It is clearly MUCH SAFER to just visit the tried-and-true .COM websites.

Damn, I just got another fucking virus visiting a .XXX site! Thieving Fuckers! Someone should block all of these .XXX sites. I don't want my kids visiting them, that's for sure!

Feel free to pass on this misinformation. Get your message out before they do.

Protect your investments!

Also, did you know that all profits from .XXX domain names are funneled into terrorist groups, determined to attack the US!

(or maybe not - who knows for sure?)

baddog · 06-27-2011, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

This is exactly what ICM Registry and their registrars are doing. Fucking hypocrites.

ummm, is there another registry that offers this for any sTLD or gTLD? At any price?

Just wondering. I don't know of one.

DBS.US · 06-27-2011, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BFT3K

All .XXX websites contain viruses inherently. Their business model is designed to force surfers to buy expensive virus protection software, otherwise their computers will be attacked.

Surfers aren't going to like these gangster-like methods devised by the .XXX thieves. It is clearly MUCH SAFER to just visit the tried-and-true .COM websites.

Damn, I just got another fucking virus visiting a .XXX site! Thieving Fuckers! Someone should block all of these .XXX sites. I don't want my kids visiting them, that's for sure!

Feel free to pass on this misinformation. Get your message out before they do.

Protect your investments!

Also, did you know that all profits from .XXX domain names are funneled into terrorist groups, determined to attack the US!

(or maybe not - who knows for sure?)

This is true. I wish I had a copy of that email that is going to go viral talking about the .xxx virus and how bad it fucks up PC computers and even macs! Can anyone come up with something?

baddog · 06-27-2011, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcop

Isn't this redundant? Suddenly trademark holders need to buy a .xxx domain to protect their trademark? That makes no sense to me.

You should put my video on one screen and listen while you work, this is covered. In a nutshell, no one is forcing anyone with a trademarked name to buy .xxx. They are allowing you to purchase the domain and not use it for about $200. You can pass up the offer and if someone buys the .xxx version of your trademarked name you can spend a few grand to get it back.

marcop · 06-27-2011, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

You should put my video on one screen and listen while you work, this is covered. In a nutshell, no one is forcing anyone with a trademarked name to buy .xxx. They are allowing you to purchase the domain and not use it for about $200. You can pass up the offer and if someone buys the .xxx version of your trademarked name you can spend a few grand to get it back.

So it's a protection racket? "Nice trademark you got there... you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it, would you? For just $200, we can make any problems go away."

Rochard · 06-27-2011, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

You should put my video on one screen and listen while you work, this is covered. In a nutshell, no one is forcing anyone with a trademarked name to buy .xxx. They are allowing you to purchase the domain and not use it for about $200. You can pass up the offer and if someone buys the .xxx version of your trademarked name you can spend a few grand to get it back.

So bascially you can register the domain at the insane price of $60, or ensure no one ever uses the domain for $200? That's... Extortion.

Spudstr · 06-27-2011, 08:26 PM

They figure the price of 200 per domain or the price it will cost you for an attorney to send a C&D.. which one is cheaper for you?

Get enough people together and you could do a class action of sorts.. i'm not lawyer but anything can happen in todays world.

TheSquealer · 06-27-2011, 08:26 PM

edit: hahaha. wrong thread

baddog · 06-27-2011, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

So bascially you can register the domain at the insane price of $60, or ensure no one ever uses the domain for $200? That's... Extortion.

If you say so.

charlie g · 06-27-2011, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

If you say so.

Uh, it's exactly like extortion. Pay $200 or something bad will happen to you. If the adult community doesn't buy into the xxx scheme maybe they can scare mainstream into paying "protection money".

AsianPimp · 06-27-2011, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redrob

I am going to stick with the .coms.

I think .XXX will be a major fail.

I'm going to agree with this one.. Whatever they're asking is too much for something will never work.. unless someone will make it a LAW..

JFK · 06-27-2011, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcop

So it's a protection racket? "Nice trademark you got there... you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it, would you? For just $200, we can make any problems go away."

S P A N N O W · 06-27-2011, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

That's... Extortion.

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlie g

...it's exactly like extortion.

FYI: (Jump To Time-Code)
0:50:45

Tempest · 06-27-2011, 11:03 PM

I'm certainly not pro .xxx, but I really don't understand all this talk about extortion.. With any other tld out there, you either buy up all your domains on them or you don't.. If you don't, someone else can come along and use them... With .xxx they're providing a way to block anyone from using it while not having to buy and renew it every year so you end up saving money in the long run.

baddog · 06-27-2011, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tempest

I'm certainly not pro .xxx, but I really don't understand all this talk about extortion.. With any other tld out there, you either buy up all your domains on them or you don't.. If you don't, someone else can come along and use them... With .xxx they're providing a way to block anyone from using it while not having to buy and renew it every year so you end up saving money in the long run.

Common sense has no place here.

ottopottomouse · 06-28-2011, 04:31 AM

Quote:

WARNING: Brand protection will only be possible during the 30-day
Sunrise period starting on September 1st 2011 and ending on the 30th.
Beyond this date, brand protection requests will be ignored. Also,
please be aware that the general opening of .XXX will be reserved to the
adult entertainment industry, with a systematic verification of
registrations. This means, therefore, that the only opportunity to
protect your brands is within this so-called 'sunrise' period.

Does that mean that future successful brands not yet existing are not going to be able to put in a blocking request in say december 2011. Surely the xxx people will want to be accepting new applicants paying the blocking fee forever?

MaDalton · 06-28-2011, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tempest

I'm certainly not pro .xxx, but I really don't understand all this talk about extortion.. With any other tld out there, you either buy up all your domains on them or you don't.. If you don't, someone else can come along and use them... With .xxx they're providing a way to block anyone from using it while not having to buy and renew it every year so you end up saving money in the long run.

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

Common sense has no place here.

i heard that a couple of time already, but it's not the same.

if i register bigboob.in or bigboobs.co.nz it's not the same as if i register bigboobs.xxx when .xxx is promoted as the "premier tld" for adult

BFT3K · 06-28-2011, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBS.US

This is true. I wish I had a copy of that email that is going to go viral talking about the .xxx virus and how bad it fucks up PC computers and even macs! Can anyone come up with something?

And don't forget, the government will be running a Big Brother Style database, specifically tracking all .XXX visitors, and their behaviors. In fact, the government will be using .XXX to monitor and prosecute surfers, in hopes of squashing the adult industry.

...or not... who cares if it's true - start your own negative .XXX advertising campaign ASAP, before you are fucked! Start posting on mainstream boards, Twitter, FB, wherever.... GO!

POISON THE .XXX WELL, BEFORE PEOPLE BELIEVE IT IS SAFE TO DRINK FROM IT!

charlie g · 06-28-2011, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tempest

I'm certainly not pro .xxx, but I really don't understand all this talk about extortion.. With any other tld out there, you either buy up all your domains on them or you don't.. If you don't, someone else can come along and use them... With .xxx they're providing a way to block anyone from using it while not having to buy and renew it every year so you end up saving money in the long run.

Oh. I understand what baddog was getting at... because I am slow and I dont want to be CONFUSED (condescending prick). The .xxx works exactly as any other tld....if I have a trademark but I dont register ALL of the tlds anyone can use them. I didnt know that.

Very nice of them to give pattysflowershop.com a bargain of only $200 to protect her name from the " primary extension for websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry and so that is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the
said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes".

Sorry, at the very least I see a sales pitch here. It appears to me they are trying to scare mainstream into purchasing "protection". In the spiel the email used the "concrete" example they were protecting gandi.net against the sinister perverts. But my question is why? Why is there a need to protect that name from an adult site "capitalizing on the trademark"....it makes no sense. It is a scare tactic to drum up a few dollars...period. If it wasn't, why wouldn't they send out an email like this with every new tld?

I havent listened to baddog's video because I dont really give a shit. He may have great insight but he seems like a crotchety old fuck and a legend in his own mind.

.

u-Bob · 06-28-2011, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

Common sense has no place here.

There's a difference between "common sense" on the one hand and ignoring the fact that we are dealing here with an organization here that has lied about just about anything and buying into the rationalizations that ICM is using on the other hand.

epitome · 06-28-2011, 08:49 AM

I am as anxious to order my .xxx as I was to order my .biz and .ws extensions.

Oh wait, I don't own any .ws and .biz on my domains.

If most of us don't even both registering the .net (unless we have a huge traffic site), why the hell would we get the .xxx unless its mandatory?

epitome · 06-28-2011, 08:55 AM

Fuck paying ICM:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/index.jsp

Register your sites name as a trademark for a one-time fee of $325 online and then go through the dispute process when and if someone registers the .xxx.

Plus it'll protect you for all of the other extensions you do not want to defensively register...if you are willing to go through the dispute process once someone does.

MaDalton · 06-28-2011, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by epitome

Fuck paying ICM:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/index.jsp

Register your sites name as a trademark for a one-time fee of $325 online and then go through the dispute process when and if someone registers the .xxx.

Plus it'll protect you for all of the other extensions you do not want to defensively register...if you are willing to go through the dispute process once someone does.

you can't register something like "bigblackcocks.com" as trademark

BFT3K · 06-28-2011, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

you can't register something like "bigblackcocks.com" as trademark

If you have a logo for "bigblackcocks.com" you can register the artwork - words on the other hand, is a much more difficult task, I agree.

I once paid around $550 to apply for a trademark for a project I was working on, and it was rejected (as text), and I was out the money. If I had submitted the same, as artwork, I would likely have been successful.

MaDalton · 06-28-2011, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BFT3K

If you have a logo for "bigblackcocks.com" you can register the artwork - words on the other hand, is a much more difficult task, I agree.

I once paid around $550 to apply for a trademark for a project I was working on, and it was rejected (as text), and I was out the money. If I had submitted the same, as artwork, I would likely have been successful.

registering the artwork wouldn't help in this case ;)

but with all generic terms you're out of luck - thats where the extortion comes into the picture in the .xxx case

baddog · 06-28-2011, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

i heard that a couple of time already, but it's not the same.

if i register bigboob.in or bigboobs.co.nz it's not the same as if i register bigboobs.xxx when .xxx is promoted as the "premier tld" for adult

Who is promoting .xxx as the premier tld for adult?

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlie g

Oh. I understand what baddog was getting at... because I am slow and I dont want to be CONFUSED (condescending prick). The .xxx works exactly as any other tld....if I have a trademark but I dont register ALL of the tlds anyone can use them. I didnt know that.

Very nice of them to give pattysflowershop.com a bargain of only $200 to protect her name from the " primary extension for websites of companies in the adult entertainment industry and so that is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the
said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes".

Sorry, at the very least I see a sales pitch here. It appears to me they are trying to scare mainstream into purchasing "protection". In the spiel the email used the "concrete" example they were protecting gandi.net against the sinister perverts. But my question is why? Why is there a need to protect that name from an adult site "capitalizing on the trademark"....it makes no sense. It is a scare tactic to drum up a few dollars...period. If it wasn't, why wouldn't they send out an email like this with every new tld?

I havent listened to baddog's video because I dont really give a shit. He may have great insight but he seems like a crotchety old fuck and a legend in his own mind.

.

Perhaps my wording was too harsh for you, that was not my intent. I said the email you got had false info in it. JFK said it depended on who you ask. My point is that it does not matter who you ask, it still is not true.

As far as the video is concerned, it is of the .xxx panel at YNOT, not my own personal opinion. Your decision to not watch it only prevents you from educating yourself, it does not affect me in any way. I put it up as a service to those that want to hear things from people that know more than you or me.

MaDalton · 06-28-2011, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

Who is promoting .xxx as the premier tld for adult?

ahh, come on, don't troll me

baddog · 06-28-2011, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

ahh, come on, don't troll me

ICM? Someone else? If ICM, aren't they doing what they promised (to send traffic to .xxx sites). I think you are giving them far too much credit if you think the general public thinks .xxx is the premier tld for adult.

BFT3K · 06-28-2011, 12:26 PM

The adult industry nitwits, who are suddenly drinking the .XXX kool-Aid, are just about as stupid as human beings can possibly be!

"Look at me, I want to create a way for adult to be banned, filtered, and compartmentalized, as soon as possible! I want less freedom please! I am a moron!"

Idiots...

just a punk · 06-28-2011, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by u-Bob

Fuck the .xxx tld, fuck the icm registry, fuck gandi.

Quoted fro truth.

MaDalton · 06-28-2011, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

ICM? Someone else? If ICM, aren't they doing what they promised (to send traffic to .xxx sites). I think you are giving them far too much credit if you think the general public thinks .xxx is the premier tld for adult.

besides ICM just read the email at the top - but that was not my point, at this time it also doesnt matter at all what the public thinks or not thinks.

the point is, that when i own bigboobs.com i dont give a shit if someone owns bigboobs.in - because .in is worthless for adult traffic.

but i do give a shit if someone but me owns bigboobs.xxx - in case .xxx turns out to be a success. so i am right at this point extorted into buying or blocking that domain to protect my .com and my income.

and because i cannot register a trademark for bigboobs.com, i have no other chance to get it later.

do you understand me now?

baddog · 06-28-2011, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

besides ICM just read the email at the top - but that was not my point, at this time it also doesnt matter at all what the public thinks or not thinks.

the point is, that when i own bigboobs.com i dont give a shit if someone owns bigboobs.in - because .in is worthless for adult traffic.

but i do give a shit if someone but me owns bigboobs.xxx - in case .xxx turns out to be a success. so i am right at this point extorted into buying or blocking that domain to protect my .com and my income.

and because i cannot register a trademark for bigboobs.com, i have no other chance to get it later.

do you understand me now?

If .xxx is going to be blocked everywhere how is that scenario even possible?

Anthony · 06-28-2011, 03:39 PM

Ahhhh. Gandi.net - The preferred registrars for mail spammers back in the day.

porno jew · 06-28-2011, 03:41 PM

looks like chris lebrun's replacement has been hired.

Anthony · 06-28-2011, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

So bascially you can register the domain at the insane price of $60, or ensure no one ever uses the domain for $200? That's... Extortion.

Right hand, left eye dominant. I used to have to shoot like that till one of my instructors fixed it.

back on topic, fuck .xxx wait till the lobbying really starts in earnest in DC for all porn sites to be under .xxx "For the safety of the children".

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Redrob Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a refrigerator box by the tracks. Posts: 4,790	I am going to stick with the .coms. I think .XXX will be a major fail. Too many conflicts with existing trademark holders to be successful in my opinion. Just write ICM and put them on notice that if they sell your mark, you will sue for damages.

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u-Bob there's no $$$ in porn Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: icq: 195./568.-230 (btw: not getting offline msgs) Posts: 33,063	Got the same email from gandi 2 weeks ago. I had 72 domains there and moved them all away. To be honest, this is actually a good sign. The ICM knows their intended audience is not interested in buying .xxx domains so now they are trying to scare mainstream businesses in paying some useless protection fee. On Gandi: As a registrar offering your clients the ability to register .xxx domains is one thing. Spreading FUD to scare your clients into buying protecting is whole other thing. Fuck the .xxx tld, fuck the icm registry, fuck gandi.

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marcop Content Producer Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 4,143	"The registry in charge of this extension will allow registered trademark holders to 'block' domains corresponding to their trademark so that is is not used by third parties who wish to profit of the notoriety of the said trademark in order to exploit it for adult entertainment purposes." Isn't this redundant? Suddenly trademark holders need to buy a .xxx domain to protect their trademark? That makes no sense to me.

06-27-2011, 05:40 PM	#16
BFT3K Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Narnia Posts: 10,764	All .XXX websites contain viruses inherently. Their business model is designed to force surfers to buy expensive virus protection software, otherwise their computers will be attacked. Surfers aren't going to like these gangster-like methods devised by the .XXX thieves. It is clearly MUCH SAFER to just visit the tried-and-true .COM websites. Damn, I just got another fucking virus visiting a .XXX site! Thieving Fuckers! Someone should block all of these .XXX sites. I don't want my kids visiting them, that's for sure! Feel free to pass on this misinformation. Get your message out before they do. Protect your investments! Also, did you know that all profits from .XXX domain names are funneled into terrorist groups, determined to attack the US! (or maybe not - who knows for sure?)

06-27-2011, 08:26 PM	#22
Spudstr Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In a Tater Patch Posts: 2,321	They figure the price of 200 per domain or the price it will cost you for an attorney to send a C&D.. which one is cheaper for you? Get enough people together and you could do a class action of sorts.. i'm not lawyer but anything can happen in todays world. __________________ Managed Hosting - Colocation - Network Services Yellow Fiber Networks icq: 19876563

06-27-2011, 08:26 PM	#23
TheSquealer BANNED Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In Your Head Posts: 25,108	edit: hahaha. wrong thread Last edited by TheSquealer; 06-27-2011 at 08:27 PM..

06-27-2011, 11:03 PM	#29
Tempest Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: West Coast, Canada. Posts: 10,217	I'm certainly not pro .xxx, but I really don't understand all this talk about extortion.. With any other tld out there, you either buy up all your domains on them or you don't.. If you don't, someone else can come along and use them... With .xxx they're providing a way to block anyone from using it while not having to buy and renew it every year so you end up saving money in the long run.

06-28-2011, 08:49 AM	#36
epitome So Fucking Lame Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 12,156	I am as anxious to order my .xxx as I was to order my .biz and .ws extensions. Oh wait, I don't own any .ws and .biz on my domains. If most of us don't even both registering the .net (unless we have a huge traffic site), why the hell would we get the .xxx unless its mandatory?

06-28-2011, 08:55 AM	#37
epitome So Fucking Lame Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 12,156	Fuck paying ICM: http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/index.jsp Register your sites name as a trademark for a one-time fee of $325 online and then go through the dispute process when and if someone registers the .xxx. Plus it'll protect you for all of the other extensions you do not want to defensively register...if you are willing to go through the dispute process once someone does.

06-28-2011, 12:26 PM	#44
BFT3K Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Narnia Posts: 10,764	The adult industry nitwits, who are suddenly drinking the .XXX kool-Aid, are just about as stupid as human beings can possibly be! *"Look at me, I want to create a way for adult to be banned, filtered, and compartmentalized, as soon as possible! I want less freedom please! I am a moron!"* Idiots... Last edited by BFT3K; 06-28-2011 at 12:29 PM..

06-28-2011, 03:39 PM	#48
Anthony Keyboard Warrior Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: One of the outer rings of Hell Posts: 9,653	Ahhhh. Gandi.net - The preferred registrars for mail spammers back in the day. __________________

06-28-2011, 03:41 PM	#49
porno jew Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 10,166	looks like chris lebrun's replacement has been hired.