An open letter to webmasters regarding .XXX - Please read
 

Dear Webmasters,

It is with great sadness to me that .xxx has been allowed to pass, putting the livelihood of all adult webmasters at risk for the sole purposes of making money for a few greedy millionaires. Stuart Lawley has never worked one day in the adult industry in his life, yet his plan is to make billions of dollars off of our hard work by imposing .xxx on webmasters like me and you, in effect blackmailing us to pay $100 per year for our own domains or else have fun fighting slime ball cybersquatters and domain speculators for our own domains back.

At the same time, he?s already put the wheels in motion to censor what you can and can?t do on .xxx. Many people have applied for registering domain names from .xxx, only to be asked ?what do you plan to use that domain for?? .XXX claims that they are doing this because they only want to give premium domains to people that will develop them with good ideas. Do you actually trust them on this? Or do you think the reason they want you to develop the premium domains you buy is so that they can snatch them right back from you later? Think about it. Why else would they care what you do with your own domains? How does it feel to have big brother breathing down your neck?

At the same time, .xxx is already being ?monitored? by a 7 person board. According to Business Week, ?Lawley, who is otherwise uninvolved in the pornography industry, says he plans to regulate the (.xxx TLD) domain through a seven-person board, including seats reserved for porn industry players, privacy experts, and child-protection advocates.?

Webmasters, I don?t know about you, but that puts shivers down my spine. A board made up of a couple of rich business men and some child protection (and probably right wing Christian) advocates telling us what we can and can not do with our own websites?

My friends, .XXX is a disaster for the adult industry. Countries around the world are already banning the .xxx TLD (including India, aka 1.3 billion people). It puts all porn sites in the ghetto, thereby making it extremely easy for would be censors and governmental agencies to control, regulate, tax and do further damage to us. It makes it difficult for smaller webmasters, who don?t have the money to pay $100.00 per year, per site to some rich millionaires just to protect their brands and receive no value back.

And in the worst case scenario, .xxx could ultimately destroy the adult industry as we know it. Just imagine how it would affect your business if you were suddenly forced to move all of your websites to .xxx under heavy governmental regulation and control (with Billionaire Lawley sitting pretty at the top)? I can tell you all, if that day happens, it will be my last day of work in the adult industry.

It is for these reasons, and for my sincere hope that .xxx will die a slow death, that I will risk losing income myself and for my company by stating that zBUCKz will not allow Webmasters to promote our websites with .xxx websites. If you have a .xxx website, we do not want your .xxx traffic and will not pay for or honor any sales that we find that are sent from any website with .xxx. Any new affiliate applications sent from .xxx domains will be rejected.

I sincerely hope that you will all help me in the fight against .xxx, for the livelihoods of us all.

What you can do to help in the fight against .xxx:

1. Don?t pay for any domains with .xxx
2. Don?t send any traffic or do any link trades with any sites that use .xxx
3. Don?t join any affiliate programs that have paysites using .xxx
4. Do whatever you can to make it known that you do not support .xxx and will not give your money or traffic to any webmasters using .xxx sites.

May the force be with us!!

how do i contact the one webmaster who has no ties to xxx in accordance with your standards?

Good luck in your fruitless endeavor.

If you actually read what I wrote, I said that we aren't allowing traffic from .xxx domains, we're more then happy to take all of your .anythingelse traffic. ;)

great letter dannyz-zbuckz:thumbsup


Eat a big steaming bowl of dicks you turd.

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sounds good. if more companies kept the money from sales coming from .xxx sites that would be pretty funny.

good thread but you could have been better served by leaving the "may the force be with us" comment out :2 cents:

One person's fruit is another person's poison.

Thanks for your support!! :thumbsup

As for the 'may the force be with us comment,' perhaps that should have been edited, but forgive me for being a bit of a Star Wars geek.

You forgot

5. Don't work with any webmasters that send their kids to a college that purchased .xxx domains defensively thereby giving funds to the ICM registry.

Take names and remember. Years from now it will be nice to know who helped this all happen.

I'm sure you meant to say you hope .XXX will die a swift death.

As I mentioned in another thread, if you want to take a strong position against .XXX traffic, update your affiliate TOS to state that any traffic sent to your program from a .XXX domain is a material breach of the agreement, affiliate forfeits all unpaid commissions and is banned from your program.

backdoor:

hidden.xxx/somegallery.html click send to visible.com/out.php?id=you and redirected to your.com

in essence you will have to check backlinks of all your ref'ed urls

Can you send me that thread? Interested to read it. :)

I have a couple of premiums and nobody asked me what i wanted to do with it.

Im reading a lot of fearmongering statements that ive yet to see being backed up.

Well done! Fuck dotxxx and its supporters!

fuck this scam .xxx:warning

Then answer these questions and tell me why we shouldn't be worried:

Why do .xxx domains cost more then 10 times what normal domains do?

.XXX is blocked in India and reports say that Australia and Germany are already considering a block. What makes you think .xxx won't be blocked by more countries?

All registrants of .XXX must agree to third-party automated monitoring of their sites for compliance with IFFOR policies - Do you know what these policies are? What happens if you are not 'in line' with these policies? Hmmm...

I see lots of reasons to be worried, but then I have about 500 domains and I'm not about to pay $50,000 per year to Stuart Lawley to 'protect' them all for me.

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm going to be revising our terms to add something about our policy on .xxx on Monday. I wouldn't want to ban our long time webmasters over a few hits sent by accident from a .xxx domain, but we'll put something in place where there will be a warning at first and if they continue to send traffic from .xxx after the warning then their account will be banned.

And so it begins, the control of distribution. U have to get permission from the distributor (.XXX) on what u can or cant produce. For what? This is the internet. If u have an idea, u can produce your own content and self distribute your product. So whats the point paying money into the .XXX system, only to be told what to do, what to hear, what to say with your website, now, or down the road...

Eventually this would include using one billing system as well. No more personal merchant accounts for your sites. Higher rates, ect.

i agree 1000% with this guy on this point:thumbsup

You could take a very firm stance with a strongly worded unambiguous TOS, while you apply your own discretion on a case-by-case basis when enforcing your policy. IANAL, so check with your lawyer to determine what works best for you.

Thanks for the great suggestion. I'm going to do just that. :thumbsup

Fuck ICM. Fuck DOTXXX.

I think it?s a great idea, been opposed to .XXX from the get go. Problem is if we?re going to boycott it and anyone that promotes it we must all agree to do so.

With that said you can count me in and I swear- on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the boycott that we have made today.

I'm so happy so see that at last, some people are thinking HARD !

This is very dangerous guys.

DON'T BUY .XXX names
Let it die slowly! Same as Acacia and all the other fuckers that tried to over everything since over to fuck us all !

Same here. DNS is active so I can do with my xxx domains whatever I want. I'm already using one for an online children's underwear catalog :1orglaugh

just when we thought you couldn't get any more creepy. :Oh crap