ICM filed a motion to dismiss Manwin's complaint for Anti-Trust on the .XXX extension for a second time yesterday. (You can read the motion to dismiss again here). Here are some of the highlights of the Motion to Dismiss: ""Even though it is their second try, Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint fails to state a claim and should be dismissed." "The Amend Complaint is (like the original … [Read more...]
.XXX Adds Only 12,500 Registrations In January
The ICANN monthly reports are out for January and .XXX now has 119K registered domain names. In December, the ICANN report showed .XXX 106,500 registrations. In the January report the total number of pure registered .XXX domain names is 119,029. These figures do NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the “block” program (Sunrise B) The block program was … [Read more...]
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD's. (You can watch the interview here) "We have nearly 250,000 .XXX domain names under management, our 5 year forecasts were 125,000-150,000, so in 4 or 5 months of operations we have achieved our 5 year goal, so it … [Read more...]
ICM Owner of .XXX Applies For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Give .XXX Owners Grandfather Rights
The ICM Registry, the operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced it made application for the new gTLD's in SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. According to the press release issues this morning if ICM were to get any or all of the new extensions the owner of the matching .XXX domain would be given a grandfather right to acquire the matching name in the new extension. Here is the balance of … [Read more...]
ICANN Report For December Is Out & 106,500 .XXX Domain Names Got Registered
The monthly ICANN Registry reports are now live for December and it shows that ICM registry the owners of the .XXX extension registered 106,549 domain names in its first month of operation. This 106,549 does NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the "block" program (Sunrise B). I reached out to ICM yesterday once the report came out for some more recent … [Read more...]
.XXX Registrations Go On Sale For Two Weeks
It seems that the cost of registering a .XXX domain name is going on sale for a limited time at just a few registrars. Moniker.com just announced it was reducing the price of a .XXX registration from $98 to $69 from only Match 26th- April 9th a 30% savings. According to a press release this morning, EuroDns.com is reducing the price to 29,99 Euro's, which is around $40 but when I went to the … [Read more...]
ICM & Name.com Announce Details Of “Adult Performer Program” & 3,500 .XXX Domain Names
According to a Press release we just received from ICM Registry, the company behind the new .XXX Top Level Domain, they just announced today "details of the highly anticipated Adult Performer Program, which releases more than 3,500 .XXX domain names that were initially held in reserve to protect the individual name interests of performers and personalities within the adult entertainment … [Read more...]