According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM registry the company that operates the .XXX TLD, there has been a sale in a Sunrise or Landrush auction for a .XXX domain name into the six figures According to Mr. Lawley comment made on thedomains.com to a post, the landrush or Sunrise auction wound up at $121K. Although Mr. Lawley did not identify the domain name, he gave a clue: ""First … [Read more...]
Has .XXX Caused The Value Of Non.com Adult Domain To Decline? Shocker as Sexy.org Sells for $7,500
Yesterday I saw the sale of the domain name Sexy.org cross the Sedo.com wire for a mere $7,500. Ouch. Sexy is without a doubt a great word for an adult or semi adult site. Its right below words like sex and porn and certainly well above 2% of the value of those words. It was just a few years ago that both sex.net and porn.net sold well into the six figures $425K and $350K if memory … [Read more...]
.XXX LandRush/Sunrise Auctions Start Today
The auctions for Sunrise/Land Rush .XXX domain names started today. An auction was scheduled if more than 1 application was submitted either during the Sunrise or Land Rush period for the same .XXX domain. I do not believe ICM, the company that runs the .XXX Registry, has ever released a statement as to how many of domain names are in such auctions. At Worldwide Media, Inc. we are in 96 … [Read more...]
cnet.com Chats About .XXX Domains & Gets It Wrong
Cnet.com just published an article about .XXX domain names chatting about what domain names were taken and which are still available. The problem is the article is incorrect. The article entitled "These .XXX domains are ready to Hook Up" The article cites such domains like Alabama.xxx and Nashville.xxx "are available to be registered for $100 a year". However they are not. Before we … [Read more...]
What Percentage of .XXX Domains Are Defensive; Two Stories Out Today: One says 48% The Other 83%
So what portion of .XXX domain name registrations were defensive that is purchased or registered to either block the domain name or for other reasons that to use the domain actively in the adult space. Two stories are out on the topic today. According to one report, the registrar 123-reg.co.uk says that "48% of registrations weren't from those in the porn industry at all, but regular … [Read more...]
How Much Traffic is Buy.XXX Losing To BuyXXX.com? We Know The Exact Numbers
We have written pretty frequently about ICM's launching of an all out ad campaign for the .XXX extension, with all Advertising leading back to Buy.XXX. You can read some stories on Buy.xxx here, here and here. So for the 1st time we can tell you EXACTLY how much traffic Buy.xxx is bleeding over to BuyXXX.com How do we know? We own the domain name BuyXXX.com. Yesterday we logged in … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Suspends TM Domains Including BusinessWeek.xxx, cnbc.xxx, VerizonWireless.xxx, WashingtonPost.xxx
According to a Press release by the ICM Registry, the official registry of the new .xxx top-level domain TLD, ICM "announced that as part of its investigation of reported cybersquatting by a handful of individuals, it has suspended registrations that appear to involve unmistakable, blatant cybersquatting in violation of the Registry’s policies and the Registry-Registrant Agreement" "The … [Read more...]