.xxx TLD Near Reality

.xxx will not catch on. Even if by remote chance, they are approved as a TLD, just wait and see who chooses to use them over a .com, no one.

Adult content on .com domains will never be against the law, and so long as it is that way, .com's will be king.

Guess who owns that domain? New.net.

Sure there are some decent .xxx domains getting traffic. Same with all extensions.

.xxx domains are a fad. Believe they are the future if you wish.

Mike also posted this from his archieves:

From My Site: 07/27/2004 For all of you asking why .XXX is a bad idea...READ THIS:

.XXX Still Not Dead, And AVNOnline is Helping to Pimp It:

The key word here being pimp of course.

lets look at whose who in this battle:

First you Have ICMRegistry and their little used car salesman Jason Hendales, Jason's job is to garner support for the .XXX domain for ICMRegistry so that they can try to ramrod it through ICANN. The proposed price tag for .XXX domains 75.00/yr.

Second, You have knowledgeable adult webmasters, attorneys and lobbyists like myself, Jeffrey Douglas, J.D. Obenberger and Bill Lyon who are against this, for reasons I will spell out in a bit.

Third You have parties in the biz, who, out of ignorance or alterior motive or both would support this under the guise of....you guessed it....keeping the children safe. These include LFP, Vivid, AVN and some of the board of the Free Speech Cabal. Though AVN has been passive in it's support, it's editorials speak for themselves.

Take the recent issue of AVNOnline where they lay out the story noting that the Free Speech Coalition held a special meeting to discuss and vote on this. AVN reported that the members in attendance voted it in BUT the big bad wolf (Then Director of the FSC) Bill Lyon vetoed the vote and called on the board of directors to decide the issue. Now here is the FACT that changes the whole story that AVN conveniently left out.

The night of the vote ICMRegistry brought in a bunch of "Ringers", they paid the dues for them to join the FSC so that they could vote in favor of .XXX, thus guaranteeing that the measure would pass. Bill Lyon saw through this ruse and did the right thing.

They also conveniently left out the fact that the FSC had been BRIBED to pass the measure....reportedly to the tune of 8.00 per domain sold. That's a hefty chunk of change and was certainly enough to buy the votes of some of the FSC Board members with less integrity than Lyon. Lawrence Walters and Greg Picconelli were salivating at the idea too because passage is job security for them as you will soon see.

So when you come right down to it, it's all about the money. ICM Registry will make millions off of this and thus will go to great lengths to sell it, even if it means selling us out.

Now some of you might be thinking that this aint such a bad idea, you are wrong, here's why:

It doesn't "protect the children", kids dont get porn from responsible adult sites, they get it off of kazaa, bearshare, limewire, morpheus, IRC and others.

It does "Zone" adult into a cyber ghetto, they say that we won't be required to use it but ask yourself this: Does your state have seatbelt laws? Remember how they sold that? They said Oh we won't just pull you over and give you a ticket for not wearing it, we just want to enact it to protect you and your children, now "Click It Or Ticket Campaigns are rampant right? Just how long do you think it would take Ashcroft or someone of similar narrow mindedness to pass legislation "protecting the children" by forcing adult sites to use .XXX. Picconelli and Walters say no way they can't do that but I guarantee you these two hot shots aren't going to represent you for free to prove it. For them .XXX is money in the bank, fuck what's good for the industry.

How long would it take your city or state to demand that ISPs "filter out" the .XXX domain or lose permission to provide service to you? Specially if you live in, say Utah?

Starting to see the problems now? Ya I thought you might.

You see its all about the money, ICM Registry, Picconelli, Walters...these people could give a fuck because they are going to make money, even if only because adult webmasters will buy the .XXX domains to protect them from cybersquatting, at least that's what they are counting on.

Next time you hear AVN wanting to speak for the adult webmaster community, remember this people. You gonna be at Internext? Tell them to stop trying to sell you to the highest bidder.

That's the way I see it.

I will pledge to help in this fight any way I can to make sure this does not happen. I will be as vocal as I can be-

It simply won't be enough. Nor will the FSC be able to conquer this gargantuan task by themselves--
Larry Flynt could help us if he truly understood all of the ramifications of .XXX. As well as if he had the energy to fight- we all know that Larry is no fan of this administration.

This has been an issue on the table for about 5 yrs. We knew this was inevitable, and the industry as a whole was apathetic. Most of us sat around saying that "the Government can't ever inact this kind of legislation because we are a global industry".

That may have been your thoughts pre- 2003- however that year's Superbowl with Janet and Justin's "Nipplegate" coupled with the FCC fines handed down to Howard Stern as well as the copius amounts directed towards broadcast companies for indecency. Should have been a real wake up call for the online adult business.

Hopfully those of you who understand this kind of modern day " McCarthyism" ( that is if you are educated enough to know who he was) will finally realize the graveness of this issue and write to the liberal politicians in your respected states. .XXX is the equivalent of wearing Hester Prynne's " Scarlett Letter"

I may have been in a lot of media, and I know I call a lot of attention to myself - However I don't want to wear a .XXX on my chest for the rest of my life, do you?

someone has their head in the sand and their ass in the air... ( they about to get fiucked hard).

.xxx will be the way of the future when we are forced to use it. You are an idiot if you think there is no chance the govt will not change the fucking constitution to make .xxx a mandatory thing. Who will oppose them, you ? This indusrtry is so fragmented we don't stand up and fight until we are attacked, in which most cases people roll over and die. Even if we all chipped it to fight, doesn't matter it is public perception and the public, vast majority support and like a .xxx MANDATORY use.

i just registered free-porno.xxx and network.xxx , you never know .. can i use it now ?