Last weekend as part of the Phoenix Forum an adult Internet industry show, a panel discussion was held about the newly approved .XXX extension.

Representative from ICM Registry the company that will run the .XXX registry, were on the panel as well as adult industry representatives, lawyers and others.

Xbiz.com just posted the 2 1/2 hour video of the session and the discussion that took place which was often combative.

The contract with ICANN was signed the day before the session.

To summarize the session, Vaughn Liley and Greg Dumas spoke on behalf of the ICM Registry.

Many  adult webmasters in attendance still wanted to debate and discuss why .XXX was a bad for the adult industry and several asked in different forms why they should buy any .XXX domain names.

ICM representative basically answered these questions the same way.

The contracts been signed and the extension is going to be launced.

“If you don’t want to buy it don’t buy it”

“If you don’t want to buy it someone else will” said Greg Dumas, long time adult domainer who says he has been working with in support of the .XXX extension since 2003.

Many questioned the role of the non-profit which will get $10 of every .XXX registration, named IFFOR.

One webmaster asked:

“Lets see I register one of these .xxx domains and lets say I’m Ok with IFFOR policy as it sits today but  in a few years they change the rules to say something like you have to use one of our approved billers and lets say no offense but i don’t like your approved billers i want to use my biller, and they say no problem if you don’t like our billers give back your .xxx domain and go back to using a .com.”

“How can you tell anyone to buy or invest in a .xxx domain when this could be such a deviating strike down two three years down the line?”

To which Greg Dumas answered:

“You can ask the same hypotical for credit card processing, you can spend millions and millions on your website and your credit card processor could come back and tell you that you have to cut your chargebacks or cut off your c

“Things change in the world”

“Nothing is a guarantee are you going to tell me everything the same as it was in 1995 in this business?

“Domains are real estate at the end of the day, don’t think just about protecting your domain, think about opportunity to get domains you couldn’t get before, vanity domains you can create products”

Vaughn Liley clarified IFFOR rules:

Right now there are only two policies of IFFOR:

1.  That you have to label your domain as adult

2.  No child porn.

“We are not going to regulate content” Mr. Liley concluded

Its a pretty entertaining session and if you have the time you can watch it on Xbiz.com