According to Afilias the company that provides the back-end operations for the .XXX registry, .XXX broke 200,000 domain names under management today.
According to the report I received, .XXX now has 200,295 domain names in the system.
According to Registrarstats.com there are only 110K domain in the root.
I reached out to Stuart Lawley CEO of ICM registry which operates the .XXX registry to ask about the why the numbers reported by Alifias differ so drasticlly differ from RegistrarStats.com numbers:
“”Names that are NOT in the zone file are names without any associated name servers ( as in all TLDs) and in our case the names may have name servers but the ” membership token” has not been issued by us yet or has not been ” associated” with the names at Registrar level.””
So domains under management but not added to the Root would include those registered under the TM blocking period, those domains that are subject to a Land Rush or Sunrise action which are still ongoing, and those reserved or restricted by the registry.
We know the registry reserved some 1,400 premium domain names.
We also know that ICM reserved thousands of domain names of celebrities and politically sensitive domains so that they could not be registered.
My guess is there are around 60K+ blocked domains or domains purchased by companies or institutions that just wanted to protect someone else from registering a matching .xxx domain.
However and to be perfectly clear, that is just my guess, based on the number of domains under management compared to the domains in the root taking into account the land rush/ Sunrise auctions, domains reserved and restricted by the registry and the domains that are registered but still aren’t associated with a membership token.
All registries file monthly reports with ICANN but when I check yesterday the lastest reports on ICANN sites were for September, which is no help with .XXX since the extension didn’t launch until December.
MHB,
If there are 200,295 domains registered, in your opinion is that a good number of domains registered shortly after the general availability to the public?
-Peter
Peter
I think the break down is important.
We don’t know the actual numbers between registrations for use and registrations for blocking or TM purposes.
I would say the numbers are not impressive.
Despite the various .xxx attempts to advertise their offering, it has no appeal to the domain requirements of the general public. Anyone requiring a web site for business, leisure, hobbies etc will go for com, net, org etc.
Their market is therefore limited to the existing adult domain society who are happy with their .com’s and defensive registrations. Therefore the numbers are low and will stay low.
Now we just have too wait till some future law will force porn to .xxx.
Already got a name for it “SOA”.
Didnt Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich say they want to start enforcing federal obscenity laws. And its not really a mystery that most of the conservative Congressmen are not on board with legitimizing pornography.
Hopefully Congress will step in soon and investigate. XXX. Any legitimate business not involved in the sex trade should not be paying a pornographer. Thats the bottom line.
forget publicly available (as required by icann) zone files. icm is obviously not going to let that give their game away.
it is the epp stats that would tell all.
afilias is a co-cospirator with all these corrupt present and future registries. they have full knowledge of what’s going on.
Even if that 200,000 number is true (which I doubt given ICM Registry’s history of lies and deceit), dotxxx has still failed. No way they are going to make back all the money they spent on getting dotxxx approved, race boats and TV commercials. Lawley claimed he would be making 200 million in a year. LOL. That’s one epic fail.