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ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains
Velcroman1 writes "The World Wide Web red-light district is poised to explode. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet's governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the adult entertainment industry on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — otherwise called the 'begin printing money phase.' The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch of .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM Registry began accepting .xxx applications from trademarked companies — those looking to use a .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website."
goatse.xxx
Open source porn! (Plus Apple stories)
Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
Can we expect a new, porn-only search engine? There's lots of money to be made with porn ads. It would be surprising to see what Google does with its own XXX site.
.news
.music
.movies
.books
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I'll use it for cowboyneal porn. I'll make money by ads for psychologists and similar.
The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a .cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
In a way its a good idea... the over-controlling nutcases can think they are actually doing something by blocking the entire domain, while all the actual pr0n, not wanting to be blocked, remains in the .com domain.
In a way its a bad idea, because most of the money will be generated by giant corporations buying the domain so pranksters/whatever can't abuse their name. Expect to see ibm.xxx purchased by ibm solely to keep other people from messing with it.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Porn? No, the XXX hell gates of mockery, intimidation and blackmail has just been blown wide open. I fail to see anything good or positive we can get out of this domain, looks like this is designed only to fill registrar's coffers.
This is a scam.
I own a adult domain non-generic and working website.
I have the trademark for it but they didn't let me register my domain.xxx because they have reserved thousands of popular words for a later auction.
When i try to register it it says "RESERVED". My lawyer has contacted them without response.
Also they have sold lots of valuable domains before september to investors without telling nobody, you can check register date in some generic domains.
It can also be called blackmail.
This domain will not succeed because its owned by speculators and cybersquatters.
"We've just created lots of embarrassing names somebody could buy from us and attach to your Internet domain. We think you need protection against that. Won't you buy them first?" Excuse me if I post as AC.
ICANN has cheezcake?
But will these porn sites run on Flash?
(I expect the story of Adobe discontinuing Flash on mobile platforms to show up here tomorrow as "Breaking News".)
My company's attorney asked me if we needed to register all of our domains under their "Register your brand with .XXX so someone else doesn't" program. I told them that while we could do that, there's no reason why someone would want to use our domain for porn, and even if they wanted to, they could register under .org, .net, .info, or one of the dozens of country domains available to anyone (some domain speculator already grabbed our .org and .net domains). I asked him if he was prepared to spend thousands of dollars/year preemptively registering our domain and common mispellings across all available TLD's on the off chance that some porn operator thought that our company's would be attractive to people looking for porn (our company's name is associated more with industrial products than big bouncing boobs). I think he finally understood why this .xxx preregistration was such a scam.
My first read was why the hell is Carl Icahn getting into .xxx domain markets... doesn't he have anything better to do with his time?
> The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM .xxx applications from .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their .xxx website
... which is, in turn, known as the "extortion" phase.
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On slashdot.xxx
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Are you saying that companies that registered a name should get it under all TLDs? Because that would make TLDs completely pointless.
A few articles ago there was an article about a better way to pack balls into something.
Now this story.
Coincidence? You decide.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
The composite domain bidding needs some explanation:
As an example, let's say that Joe wants acme.com, acme.biz and acme.xxx as a composite domain. He bids $60 for acme.com, $20 for acme.biz and $10 for acme.xxx making the appropriate deposits in escrow with ICANN. Sam comes along and bids $61 for acme.com but the other bids for individual domains acme.biz and acme.xxx are $19 and $9 respectively. The individual bids (totaling $89) in escrow receive no interest payments; Joe's (totaling $90) do. Moreover, the current owner of acme.com pays the 1 year Treasury rate on the $60 bid by Joe, not on the $61 bid by Sam. Conversely, the owners of acme.biz and acme.xxx pay interest on $20 and $10 respectively. Joe's escrowed bid for the composite domain receives the 3 month Treasury rate on $90. The owner of acme.com can, of course, accept Sam's bid of $61 at any time, in which case Sam starts paying the interest on the $60.
The obvious implication of this is that there would be a dynamic and highly automated flow of money between escrowed bids, but domain domain speculation would be a thing of the past.
If a domain name is defended as a legally recognized trademark, business name, etc. then no ICANN-mediated bidding is allowed and ICANN charges no fees.
What should ICANN do with the revenue arising from the difference between the 1 year Treasury rate and the 3 month Treasury rate?
Seastead this.
I'd be amused to find out what would lie behind vaticano.xxx
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
*cue X-Files introduction music with a pic of CowboyNeal burried in a spaghetti monster of CAT3.
Does the monitor in the fox news story look like a Silicon Graphics monitor to anybody else?