.XXX in trouble? For those looking for new biz opportunities
 

http://www.icann.org/

Pretty interesting to say the least. Basically, ICANN said: "FUCK OFF, WE COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT INTERNET REGULATIONS, JUST SHOW ME THE MONEY!"

Question is: how much time before someone here registers the .sex tld? or .hot? or .gay?

And thinking of it, how much would you pay for gay.sex or hard.sex or whatever? Don't you think that value alone covers the 185k needed to own one of those TLDs? Personally, if I had the 185k at disposal, I'd jump on it right now without even thinking about it (yeah, I know, I'm the only poor webmaster in this board, so take advantage of it you filthy rich bastards! :mad: )

Anyway, the real question to whoever does it is: how much are you going to pay for my brilliant ideas? :1orglaugh

Keep dreaming.

You can reg free.sex and it wouldn't be worth shit except catching typos for
free.sex.com


:1orglaugh

How is the surfer going to know that free.sex even exist unless the ".sex" is promoted?
How many "sex.WTF" have you ever typed in?

sex.net
sex.org
sex.co.uk

If "sex.tv" can't make a dent in "sex.com" then why would "sex.whatever" be any better?

you might be right about that, it depends on many factors. Someone smart can convert a .sex domain in a goldmine. Someone only looking for easy profit will lose his shirt for sure.

Either way, the main point here is how this new ICANN resolution dilutes the value and need for .xxx , they killed each and any ICM claim for value on their .XXX domains, just like that.

The whole move and it's timing kind of smells like an effort to SAVE ".XXX".

For example .xxx is down right now for a reason.
I don't know the reason, but I believe that .xxx is going to have a problem
going live. Somebody doesn't want it.

So how does .xxx stay alive?

Well, if we can have "dot anythinginanylanguage" then how can someone justify
targeting ".xxx" to not go live?


Hmmmmmm?

What about .yourself?
-> go.fuck.yourself

the net as we know it today will look like geocities in 2 years. who cares ...

greedy plans...

I can not wait for areyou.gay :1orglaugh

think .porn would be better than .sex. but w/e. FU and your plans.

I think these extensions would do well:

.facebook
.google
.blog
.game
.music
.porn/.sex
.fullcountrynames

It would be total anarchy with the result that the major search engines wont even index them.

Crooks...all of them, plain and simple :2 cents:

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Here's something I think a lot of people are missing when they read about this: the $185k is merely the application fee.

As the term "application fee" suggests, all paying that fee does is to put you into consideration for the TLD you want. If other parties are interested in the TLD, even if you make it through the application process (which is not a slam dunk, btw), then you'll find yourself in a bidding war for the TLD, unless you can make the case that it should be awarded to you over the other contenders for reasons grounded in intellectual property/trademark/etc -- as I'm sure a lot of the biggest companies/brands will do.

If you actually end up being awarded with the TLD.... then the real expenses begin, of course. The technical infrastructure requirements alone will be a deal-killer for a lot of people who might otherwise be interested in owning/operating their own TLD.

Anybody who is interested in the idea of owning a TLD should really check out the gTLD Applicant Guidebook ICANN has published. I'm reading it now myself, and my strong hunch is that for most people in the adult industry, after reading through module 1.5 ("Fees and Payments"), their enthusiasm for the idea will be somewhat reduced. ;-)

I know it's just an application fee, that's why I said:
And the 4 months "time frame" is really funny, they're screaming "hurry up, we want mo'money and we want it now!"

This being said, I can see many marketing and business gurus raising a few millions to develop the new TLDs, they won't care at all if they work or not as long as they get the money. Think about this: you go to Ford and say "hey, let's develop the .car or .ford TLD! I just need 5M!" That's less than what they spent in advertisement... PER HOUR

And the same could happen in adult. And again: A good adult TLD could worth tens or even hundreds of millions... if done well. OR, like I said, you could lose everything. Either way, I'm sure several "brilliant minds" are contacting the biggest adult companies (or even mainstream) to do this. If not, they will do it in the next 15 days, it's a race to see who will "catch the whale". In general, it's pretty safe to say chances are 99% of them will fail. But maybe the remaining 1% may work, and that 1% MAY change the face of adult business. AGAIN.

But well, since being in denial is just a sport in adult industry, please don't pay me much attention :2 cents: