The University of Colorado registered 27 .xxx names at $200 a piece. $5400 which could have been used for a partial scholarship for a deserving student, to fund an entrepreneurial micro start up, or one of many other causes. They registered names like CU.xxx which I am not sure they are the first thing the […]
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University of ILLINOIS says forget about .XXX protection we will take action
While many universities have paid the protection fee for their univeristy name and nicknames, The University of Illinois has said they will not do that. From the associated press: The University of Illinois won’t be buying Internet domain names with the suffix “.xxx,” but that doesn’t mean you should. Many universities are snapping up the […]
Continue ReadingWired: “The .XXX Domain Arrives, to a World That Has Moved On”
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 […]
Continue ReadingVerisign wishes they could copy the ICM Registry model
Now that .XXX is up and running we see all the registrations that were purely defensive. Take this story from the Edmonton Journal: Many domain-name buyers that include the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University have no intention of using the sites they have acquired, such as “UniversityofAlberta.xxx” and “MacEwanUniversity.xxx.” “We have registered five […]
Continue Reading55,367 .xxx domains sold in first day
Just tweeted from the official .xxx Twitter account: dotXXX Dot XXX 159,351 .XXX domains sold – 55,367 in the first day! Have you staked your claim in the new #goldrush? buy.xxx #dotXXX Was it more of less than you thought it would be for the first day ?
Continue ReadingDot XXX and domain speculation
Today was a big day in the domain world. The .xxx extension finally made its way to general availability. The problem for the domainer imo is the price. At $85 at Name.com per .xxx or $100 at Go Daddy the price seems just too high to speculate. We started off with a lot of the […]
Continue Reading.XXX and the adult domainer
Many who participate in the adult end of the domain pool do it privately. They register a domain and add privacy and that's it. .XXX is a different story IF you are thinking of regging a .xxx when they go live in about 8 1/2 hours, be prepared to provide a lot of info and […]
Continue ReadingOver 100,000 XXX Domain Names Are Going Live Tomorrow At 11 EST
BusinessInsider.com just released a story that 100,000 names will go live tomorrow. From the article: So far, more than 100,000 domain names have been registered. ICM expects that number to double within the first few weeks of the domain going public. While prices vary depending on which registrar registers the site, Lawley said it usually […]
Continue ReadingMore and more colleges getting .xxx names to make sure no one else does
The Greenfield reporter is reporting that the University of Iowa is looking to acquire a bunch of Iowa Hawkeye domains in .xxx to make sure no one uses their name for adult content. The University of Missouri has acquired Missouri.xxx, mizzou.xxx and missouritigers.xxx . I think the Missouri purchase is interesting as being the pure […]
Continue ReadingIf Beyonce does not have to pay the .xxx ” block fee” why should your company ?
.XXX is underway and under Sunrise B, any non-adult trademark holders that want to block their trademark from being registered in .xxx can do that by paying a fee. But ICM is blocking or reserving some celebrity names. Go to http://www.icmregistry.com/whois You can check to see if a name is “reserved” by ICM. It seems […]
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