Who registered .xxx domains?
 

Very curious who on GFY protected their brand(s) on .xxx already.

me NOT :thumbsup

http://alientrollscience.com/lo.xxx.jpg

Lo.xxx my new Jewish porn site.

Our Solicitors put in a first stage application for one, just to use as evidence for when we sue them for issuing any domains that match our .com, .com.au or .co.uk domains.

OAInternet will not be registering our brands with them

getting lots of type ins from pornhub.xxx was a good investment.

Went ahead and picked up nalem.xxx

I highly doubt anyone is going to admit that in an open forum.

On the other hand, people against it have no problem voicing their negativity towards it....funny how that works :winkwink:

Excellent point.

Dot com is king. I bought a dot us once and it was worthless.

If you have to buy a dot xxx to make money, you fail at the internet.

Pretty lame how .xxx domains that the .com owner supposedly should have rights to [based on what ICM told everyone, and still does] have been snatched by ICM to sell off for some quick money.

I did not buy any.

This is what buying .xxx domain names is like...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cJAVhcBMk...own-toilet.jpg

I know of one VOD company that launched a new site

url or it didn't happen :)

London, UK 8 September 2011

Leading “cloud-porn” VoD site Strictly Anywhere announces rebrand to Anywhere.XXX

http://www.xbiz.net/index.php?c=disc...thread&id=4609

Anywhere.XXX Added to the Blacklist.

GFY is the main spot for AWM, the fact that these guys had the integrity to reject ICM & .xxx advertising is admirable.

Fuck .xxx till the day it is required.

Dose anyone think that there would be a day that porn is worldwide outlawed on a .com ?

Going by what ICAAN said when they finally approved the .xxx sTLD no. They said it would not be required.

Conspiracy theories may vary.

Landrush didnt start yet right?

Hi Sandro, I did. See you in Amsterdam?

:1orglaugh

Have the same thoughts, not everyone will admit it in public

Maybe they were a .xxx showcase

Hi Emjay, the 1st one in this thread who is honest about it. No I will not attend the Amsterdam show, too much work here but I will be in Prague, hope to meet you there.

You will, looking forward :-)

has gfy.xxx been taken yet

Just wait for it, country by country

We boycott and say :321GFY to .xxx

Exactly.

I reckon the UK and Germany will be the first in Europe.

Making money from porn will be impossible for European affiliates soon anyway. The UK are lining up German style 'over 18 authentication' requirements - and the EU will probably have brought in a directive requiring it by the end of the decade.

* The ICM claims that using .xxx domains will make it easy for parents to filter adult content because .xxx sites are required to use certain metatags.
---> Every site, regardless of the domain used can use metatags that label the content on that site "for adults only". A lot of webmasters have already been doing that for a long time.
---> The few .xxx sites that are already up and running do not have any special metatags. So the ICM does not enforce its own rules?

* The .xxx tld is not just another tld. It's a tld with certain rules governing the use of those .xxx domains. We still don't know what those rules are. We know the ICM created a panel of people who can give advise on what those rules should look like, but we still don't know what those rules are or what they will be in the future.

In other words: You could invest a lot of money in building a .xxx site, invest in branding, traffic, links etc and find out 2 years from now that you are only allowed to use cc processors that are approved by the ICM or only use content in niches that have been approved by the ICM or only send certain types of promotional messages to your members or only use certain pricing schemes or...

* In the years leading up to the approval of the .xxx tld, the ICM and the people representing it have told more lies and have been caught telling more lies than a snake oil salesman running for office.

Oh yeah, they will find a way to control porn over the web trust me.

.xxx is the first step
It will be so easy after.

1) Law forcing you to use an .xxx domain for porn where you live
2) Isp's or countries blocking them by default one by one

This is the worst shit ! Won't happen right way but will get there alright.

Especially when assholes in the adult biz actually BUY them!

I'm also afraid this just the beginning or attempt of a Gov controlled action.

Amazing 1 guy only had the courage to admit that booked an xxx.
I have 50+ com domains, sure I not buy 50 xxx's given the price and uncertainty of usefulness. And I fully understand who own 100's or 1000's of .com domains and hearing he is supposed to re-buy all them in xxx at 10 times a com price.
But I booked 2 of mine: chatgf.xxx and tubecamgirl.xxx at networksolutions, and not shy to tell it. I do not boicott does not mean I support, or I had it done before like ifriends.xxx done.
So I paid then got 2 pages of stuff to do including I should upload a file in chatgf.com and tubecamgirl.com so they can verify I really have access to it.
2 pages of steps to do is too much for a busy guy so I not read or made it yet, but for the curious guys (boicotting ones too) here it is what the sunrise AD steps are:

STEP 1: Complete the "Sponsored Community" Membership Process

http://www.networksolutions.com/doma...ip-process.jsp


STEP 2: Complete the Pre-Existing Exact-Match Domain Validation Process

http://www.networksolutions.com/doma...ld-process.jsp

I will read and try to do when I get some free time, deadline is 2 november I see.

This is actually the most insightful post of the thread imo. At least there is a process to how these registrations will go and will keep people from domain squatting.

Putting limitations on anything or regulating content via tld seems pretty unconstitutional (as per US standards), so I can see the perspective of the boycotts. At least there are going to be some rules about who can have what names so anyone holding out until the last minute won't (read:shouldn't) get left in the dust. :2 cents:

Well, if I understood correctly, pre-owning a domain it not means .com only, so anyone with yourdomain .info or .biz or .net or .org or yourdomain.notrelevant , can get the yourdomain.xxx in place of you, no matter you owned yourdomain.com - for for sunrise AD, where only pre-owning domains (with any .something) counts.
I read it goes into bidding, if yourdomain.biz and yourdomain.info try to register yourdomain.xxx (all of which is eligible the same as yours!), so who pay more the bid wins, not who registered first, it goes auction.
Unless you filed a trademark before september, but not many in adult are used to file for trademarks really, so I think most will go into domain pre-owning and bidding .info's against .com's pre-owners.
So cybersquatting it can be done (if I understood correctly) by whoever have yourdomain .info or .biz or net or org or whatever, if you not register yourdomain.xxx (as 99% of the people here in GFY are stating) and these cybersquatters own yourdomain.info, .biz. .net etc. they can take it and it is theirs finally - you can not buy it later "because you own the .com", as the .biz or .info ones got it before and it is legit.
Even if you try to register your xxx now, if a guy with the .info or .biz also tries, you both end up eligible then it goes on auction bidding between you 2+. Unless traedemarks in place, but trademark owners have another sunrise process, not involving domains.
Disclaimer: I am not an expert of xxx and I may be wrong! May the experts confirm or correct.

funny, i know known respected companies that are jumping on xxx now, will not post ant names as i dont want to make any drama for them, but every day another company is registering xxx, and not only brands, just nice keywords ... if you think about it, there is still many of free great keywords that can be used same as with any other tld, just it is more expensive and who knows how long before xxx is banned on providers ... :2 cents:

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread.

Taking names:2 cents:

Tried to buy a couple but they've apparently already sold my names before the sunrise period began. The only way it will ever be an issue is if legislation is passed relegating all porn sites to a .xxx ghetto, and I wouldn't be all that shocked if that should happen one day.

I've always said I'll have some and I have registered a couple.

I'm trying to buy a few .xxx domains that I own the trademark and .com to but they're giving me a hard time. They have the name as "Reserved by ICM Registry". When I ask them about it, I get their canned answer:

Who is the person that replaced Chris at ICM? Anyone have a telephone contact number for them?

Nope, they're not talking. I get the same runaround. No sense in doing anything but lawyer up at this moment.

No fucking way..

Free meaning available, not free meaning without cost - its biggest problem is that they're expensive as hell.

Ill take a few when they start selling them at $0.10 per dozen.

only the bad people :(

I'll buy one in 2-3 years when they are available for $9.99 each ... LOL

I already have an attorney in the wings.

The registrar I was working with told me to file a complaint with IFFOR.

true, expensive it is, so you will be not buying hundreds of them but you have to think what to buy what can sell and what can bring the money back. i have domains that are making thousands in year, so there is no reason to not invest 200 if you see the money coming back. but i dont have any trademarks and i have no past problems with the people behind it so i dont know all the points of view maybe it is a real pain for tm owners ... lol ... just my :2 cents: btw, i dont say i support it or not, i am just trying to look at it in revenue way ...

:winkwink: Same here and more-than-likely there will still be plenty of keyword.xxx and keywordkeyword.xxx domains left on the table for those of us that waited for the inevitable price drop. :thumbsup