Wired wrote an article last night talking about how the .xxx extension may have come along too late.
It also has remarks from Stuart Lawley where he is worried that new tlds may do exactly what his company did, which was get companies to pay for defensive registration.
Taken from the article :
Even ICM’s Lawley, however, is worried that other gTLDs, rolling out beginning in early 2012, may be used by companies seeing more income potential in getting institutions to sign up defensively to pay continued fees.
Lawley also goes on to say that if ICANN already had a "trademark clearing house" Had such a database been in existence before the launch of .XXX, Lawley says, the one-time use registries may have cost only $20.
The whole article is worth the read and the comment section is also worth the read. It shows just how polarizing this extension is, with some believing that .xxx is the first step to all pornography being relegated to the extension eventually.
Read the whole article here
Pot meet kettle
.XXX = total waste of time. I didn’t even register a single one. Why? To watch it go down in flames and become worthless? Seems obvious to me that it will. Ask Rick Schwartz, a leader in the domain industry, how his $750K purchase of Flowers.Mobi worked out for him.
Clearly, .Com is here to stay. As tld history has demonstrated time after time (as in .aero, .coop, .travel, .museum, .jobs, .pro, .biz, .mobi, .coop, .cat, .tel) other tlds will go the way of the hula hoop end up as a Wikipedia entry of the future. Oh, and these were the tlds that ICANN’s marketing surveys showed were in the highest demand!
You can have your .XXX and your gTLDs. I work too hard for my money to watch it go down the .toilet
Someone in another post said it best: All tlds will work. Only .Com will work well.
Great article! Great to see a blog that isn’t beholding to ICM advertising revenue. From what I understand, if you criticize
.XXX in anyway, they will cancel their ad on your site!