It looks like Taylor Swift was not by far the only celebrity to register a .Porn new gTLD domain name extension in the recently concluded Sunrise period. Lots of the biggest names in the music business joined Taylor Swift in registering their .porn domain including; Beyonce, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Cher, Britney Spears, Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Faith … [Read more...]
ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment
The ICM registry, which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was opened to trademark holders. The wholesale cost for each sunrise registration was just $62, which is quite a bargain considering that the wholesale cost of a .sucks registration is around $2K + for any … [Read more...]
Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X+ More Than Any Average
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD's The Sunrise periods, which allows trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for … [Read more...]
EnCirca announces $39 Price For Matching .XXX, .Porn & .Adult Domains
The domain registrar EnCirca just published a press release with a very catchy title; "Here Comes More X-Rated Domains" EnCirca announced during the month of April, they are offering a $39 package covering one name in all three adult-related extensions: .XXX, .Porn and .Adult. This works out to be $13 per domain name in each extension. Considering they are currently selling stand alone … [Read more...]
Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com
There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn't make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name … [Read more...]
.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set For June 4th
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard … [Read more...]
The First Director of .IFFOR, Set Up By .XXX Registry; Clyde Beattie Resigns & The Money Went?
Clyde Beattie, who was one of the founders of the non-profit company set up by ICM the operator of the .XXX extension, IFFOR, (The International Foundation for Online Responsibility) which was set up as "a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing policies for Top Level Domains that maximize benefit to global Internet users, domain holders and domain registry operators." has left the … [Read more...]