ZDNet: Dot-XXX: A Business Built On Fear
 

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue...n-over-xxx/811

If anyone has to the money to tackle this, it would be Manwin.

well from what i gather they have been sugesting non porn firms buy .xxx to prevent porn sites cyber squating.

i suspect most of the 80,000 sales have been to non porn sites.

these have been sold on fear. buy or loose out.

Great article..

Here is one big FUCK YOU to Stuart Lawley and ICM!!!!!

i like diarrhea...

Right on the money:thumbsup

I hope they sort this out. This .xxx shit didn't play out nice at all.

.xxx never had any real purpose except to make money for Lawley and ICM.

No benefit (none, nada, zero, zip), to either consumers or the adult industry.

No positive impact on protecting children or any other segment of the internet.

Be interesting to see if the mainstream media picks up on this.

it's not just lawley it's dumas too. i can't stand dumas. fuck him
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it'd be nice, too, if manwin & dp boycotted the female talent that openly support .xxx like nikki delano. just read her twitter @nikkidelano
that is a reasonable idea.
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You mean the ones the ICM bribed with a free .xxx domain? :)

and don't forget about ICANN or this Joan Irvine bitch, too....:2 cents::2 cents:

This will be very interesting to see how scum bag lawley like's the dull end of the fuck stick. He had no problem fucking this entire industry based on a bogus platform to "Protect the children".

i don't know what they got in return. i think few (not all) porn whores know how the business works so they just jumped on what they thought was advantageous to them short term. the best way to show them that they were wrong is to not shoot these girls.
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hopefully this whole thing gets exposed & everyone involved from alec helmy, to greg dumas, to lawley et al get run out of town like a western.
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Seems like it :2 cents:
"Dot-XXX: A Business Built On Fear

"Non-porn entities are defensively registering .XXX names to block them out of fear. Recent headlines report that colleges and schools have felt compelled to make sure there are no confusing, unwanted and possibly reputation-damaging triple-X versions of their educational institutions coming up in future search results (or worse)."

"I have to say, if that?s the business plan it?s a brilliant - if evil - one."
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"Just think of how much would be made if someone could bluster ICANN into approving .PEDO."

Then comes .porn .sex .gay .pussy and again, companies are going to have to protect themselves by spending tons of cash. Fuck ICANN and fuck .xxx!

It all depends on how those tlds will be run.

Most registrars have been spamming their users with the message that it is in their best interest to pay the ICMs extortion.. euh I mean one-time block fee. :disgust

:thumbsup

It would be fun if they ban xxx domain.

Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

I didn't know all this when I purchased my 13 xxx domains. I want my god damn money back!!!

:1orglaugh Get back to work people...

I like how you think. :thumbsup

Who knows... Maybe by the end of next year we will all be buying Nathan a beer and calling him a stand up kind of guy?

Yeah, it was only last week that people started making valid arguments about why you shouldn't support .xxx ... not.

My email is in my sig if you would like to have a conversation.

No

I suspect that unless .xxx gets on a lot of adult sites, then it will die out.

Unless they can convince us to buy in the next few weeks, they are dead in the water.

They bribed a few with free .xxx, but they did not work, and none of us thought, must buy.

Its clear they presumed adult biz sites would want .xxx, and ten years ago mabe. But today the .com is king. In fact .com is like usa, uk, russia, china, iran, india (and any big country you can think of) combined into one huge country. .xxx is like malta. by this .com is safe place to be, while i do not want to risk swimming over to malta for no reason at all.

soon the ladrush for .xxx is over. thats when things will show. unless people buy then its all over. its like .mobi was sold on the fact you needed it for a phone. not true. its the same as .xxx, its not needed.

the problem for those who buy .xxx is that will people (1) promote your site, or (2) trade with it. I am not going to promote any .xxx site. And I suspect others will not too. so even having one could be a disater.

of course those behind .xxx were just greedy. they presumed everyone would buy .xxx, so they put on a huge price. in truth if they had charged no more than for a .com then people would have bought them for the heck of it. they were very very foolish in charging such a huge cost.

now they are sending ot there little staff to try to get us to buy, by going on forums.

but as there effert seems low, i suspect they have given up on it.

the hope is cleat that firms will buy .xxx out of fear.

one question will be is who purchased all the expensive domains such as sex.xxx or whatever. one wonders if they were sold to thick greedy people who will later try to sell them but find no one wants them. or were they transfered into a sub compasny of .xxx hoping that by keeping some sites to one side it will bump up the cost and increase excitment in .xxx.

but whatever .xxx is a failed brand. it by definition cannot win. it has to fail.

we will see people trying to sell .xxx thinking they got a deal and can make a profit, but will have a shock when no one is interested.

as such .sex, .gay and so on, will be not even wanted, knowing .xxx failed.

that said if say .sex was sold cheaper than a .com it may have a chance.

but basicly its like putting a robin relient garage next to a bmw garage and charging more (robin relient being .xxx and bmw being .com).

the fact that .xxx representatives are clearly panacking and doing there best to push .xxx sugests that its failing sooner than even i would suspect it would.

I disagree. I think every model who signed on, caved in or was otherwise complicit should run the facialabuse/ghettogaggers/latinaabuse/blackonblackcrime gauntlet. :winkwink:

agreed!
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Yeah dude. ICANN has no chance. And the .xxx's will not be refunded.

to be fair, if your a model, i do not expect you to understand or even care what .xxx means.

to them its there name, so they think great.

the hope is that they then tell people and people think, .xxx is great.

in truth as a marketing stunt, it was smart. but they would have been smarter to have given everyone them at say $1 for a year. they would have sold millions. then a year later chances are 40% or more would re-new at fuill rate as they may be using the domains.

however they suck. and i will not touch one ever.

occupy .xxx :thumbsup

Hey! That one is still available! :thumbsup

ohh totally. Porn whores are morons
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good news

What's funny is *everybody* knows that this is nothing but a money grab.

The only real supporters are ICM and the few who drank the kool aid.

Even groups that hate the porn industry got on board to oppose it. That says leaps and bounds.

true
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