Hey Industry Insiders - Are You For Or Against .XXX ?
 

I'm sure similar (if not identical) polls on this topic have already been posted in the past, but what are the industry insider's feeling regarding this matter TODAY?

Please vote, so we can see where we're at, and feel free to post your comments and opinions as well.

Thanks!

If you vote IN FAVOR of .XXX - please tell us why, and explain how you believe it would benefit the industry in general.

I fear this will be fairly one sided and directly contrary to polls made on other forums

Can you define industry insiders? And how are you confirming whether or not the voters meet those qualities?

Why are you such an idiot?

who needs .xxx whats next .porn

What? Again???

I think his questions are legit.

Great, now he is going to think you are pro .XXX :winkwink:

.porn .sex and many others will be happening soon.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cdk1gwWH-Cg

Is that true, based upon fact, or just something everyone keeps repeating?

Million$ have been spent, in an attempt to roll out .XXX - along with "studies for same" (regardless of how corrupt and biased these "studies" were).

Why would .porn or .sex or .anything just get rolled out soon, no problem?

lol you're an outsider - this is your fishbowl:pimp

Jay the 80's called and they want their hat back:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Counter the argument against what, common sense?

BTW - Yours is the ONLY "pro-.xxx" vote in the results, and from what you say, it sounds like you didn't even mean it - so really ALL votes (so far) are AGAINST this .XXX stupidity.

Everyone keeps saying this, but is it true? Will there really be .sex, .bigtits, .porn, etc... any time soon, and if so, why was .xxx such a lengthy, expensive, and complicated undertaking?

as legit as the penny stock you told everyone to buy then days later it tumbled? :helpme

.xxx = stld: They claim they represent the industry.

.sex, .porn = gtld: just another tld.

I am AGAINST .xxx.

I am PRO .sex, .porn and any other tld that will make it harder for the ICM Registry to pretend that they somehow represent us.

I believe that was xxxjay :)

The travel industry is enormous and eclipses the porn industry in size. Yet the .travel sTLD is a ghost town that has put Tralliance on the edge of bankruptcy. The .XXX sTLD will also be a miserable failure that will fail to live up to its hype.

Against .xxx

I cant vote because you dont have a "I dont care" button

With all the other tld's comming out soon it really doesent matter one bit

Maybe. ;-)

I recently looked into the challenge mechanisms available under the roll-out plan for ICANN's new 'open' gTLD structure, and if ICM chose to, they could probably stall the launch of a competing TLD and make it a serious pain in the ass for a competing TLD to get started, if nothing else. Depending on how ICM's challenge was received by ICANN, they could even possibly forestall the launch of a competing porn-related TLD altogether.

IMO, anybody who is contemplating the creation/operation a new porn-related gTLD would be wise to start thinking, right now, of ways to differentiate their proposal from what ICM is doing with .XXX. At the very least, making the newly proposed gTLD a substantially different animal than .XXX would mitigate ICM's ability to challenge the new TLD under the TLD Differentiation clause of the agreement between ICM and ICANN.

The real sticking point for any new porn-specific gTLD, though, is likely to be the four grounds for objection delineated in the gTLD Applicant Guidebook published recently. (See the post I linked to above for more info on that, if you're interested.)

I am against XXX. And I'm against anyone who supports it.

XXX is pulling some serious shady shit. They are telling us about polls where the vast majority of adult professionals support XXX, and nothing could be further from the truth. I don't know of any one person who supports this outside of XXX itself. Not one.

There is money to be made from XXX, and that's the only reason it exists.

No .xxx tld!

I wish someone would spring for the money to get the .kids tld approved:-)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.disney stands a better chance :2 cents:

Found this on a mainstream blog

http://www.watblog.com/2010/05/11/po...-for-children/

What went through your mind for the first time when you heard about this: “Porn To Get .XXX Domain”? Did you feel that now you have a classified online access to porn? or is it that you felt now Porn on web can be controlled easily. Frankly speaking, both are good to have gone past your mind.

We have words that the Domain Registry authority, ICANN is under immense pressure from various proponents to bring all adult entertainment sites under .xxx domain and thus make it easily filter-able by parents. Now in a country like India where, more and more children and adults look forward to the internet as a medium of entertaining themselves with porn sites and sex video sites, having a domain name ending with XXX gives a direct gateway to porn websites for children. If you may not know, India is ranked amongst top 3 countries in the world for searching ‘Sex’ online!

As far as implementing a XXX domain is concerned, one of the requirements of anyone registering a .xxx domain is that the site carries meta-tags that will be automatically picked up by the popular browsers and allow people who want to avoid the content to easily do so. In this article we had shown you a lot of stats regarding online porn in India. Implementing XXX domains would definitely help parents to filter pornographic content from their computers for their children. Also, applications that are specifically meant to serve the purpose of filtering out pornographic content from the internet will find it a lot more easier to do so as this would simply involve filtering out websites that have a .xxx domain name. As the famous saying goes – “Every Coin has two sides” – Where implementing these domains would definitely help parents to control what their children watch online, but on the other hand this measure would definitely act as a huge blow to the billion dollar Internet pornographic industry.

That's why I posted the poll here "where the industry meets" so we can see for ourselves, that no one wants this bullshit extension. Any statements they make, that claim the adult industry is on board with this nonsense, is obviously bullshit - just look at the poll results!

It's a money grab at the least, and an industry killer, if we allow it to catch on.

DO NOT BUY .XXX DOMAINS! STARVE THE BEAST!

Oh, so if I put something on the header of a website, that makes it fact? Oh yeah, it is on the Internet, so it must be.

All of your flippant statements and replies in these threads only serve to confuse and blur your position.

Solid questions Lloyd. :thumbsup

hey face it, .xxx is happening and its bound to get easily as big as .mobi :1orglaugh

Holy shit, 63 to 1! That is almost statisticly impossible and really says a lot.

Obviously even those publicly supporting .xxx actually hope it fails.

i voted yes. i support what glenn beck tells me to. :thumbsup

...says the guy selling .XXX domain names.

Seriously ! Does it even matter anymore Now that Icann has approved the implementation of the New gTLD Program (generic top-level domain program) There will be 1000s of domain extensions now lol

Because each new custom generic TLD will make the "insiders" a cool $185,000.

http://mashable.com/2011/06/20/new-gtld-faq/
http://www.icann.org/en/announcement...20jun11-en.htm

Because greed does not gurantee intelligence.

I don't give a fuck about it.

If it becomes compulsary, it will clean out a lot of the chaff online porn has.

If not, why care?

There are far more important things to worry about.

I just had to rush outside and take in all the washing off the line. The sun was shining one minute, now we have a thunder storm. And I have to take the dog for a walk. :(

You guys need to worry about making money. Not about something you have no influence, control or effect over. It's a problem in your heads, go do some real work.

Actually, that $185k is just the application fee for a new gTLD, which ICANN gets to keep no matter what, in whole or in part, depending on how long the applicant in question sticks with the application process.

Withdrawing an application before the process is over yields a refund that gets smaller with each passing step of the process. If an applicant sticks with the process to the end, and is not rewarded the gTLD they applied for, then they get none of that $185k back.

If the application is eventually approved, then the expenses of launching and operating the gTLD kick in, all of which will be on top of the $185k the applicant already spent on the application fee.

As such, there's no need to give quick approval to any new gTLD on the part of ICANN, really, and any proposed new gTLD that is considered "controversial" by the GAC is likely to receive a challenge from them, in addition to any challenges that might come from other stakeholders, operators of existing TLDs, or even members of the general public under the "Limited Public Interest" grounds for objection.

This is all covered in the challenge mechanisms in place for the open gTLD launch process, which are included in the gTLD Applicant Guidebook that ICANN published recently.

None of this means that each and every new gTLD will be challenged, of course, but my strong hunch is that ICM will challenge any proposed porn-specific gTLD that they see as competing with .XXX.

I voted against .xxx

Voted! Fuck .XXX :2 cents:

50 x's

fuck . xxx

:thumbsup Right on