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Originally Posted by RawAlex
it has the potential to speed up the process of shrinking the number of players in the game, allowing the rich larger companies to squat all over domains that would otherwise go to traffic source sites, and for those programs to obtain the traffic themselves.
All of those millions spent on type in domains that will no longer be allowed to point to porn. A huge loss!
I would hope that the larger players would come and protect the affiliates and traffic programs that have made them as rich as they are, rather than using this as a chance to sink a knife into out collective backs.
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Alex, although I agree with you somewhat - all those 'type-ins' may not come for quite a while. People will be reluctant to type in .xxx for fear that they are being tracked or tagged. They'll instead go looking on p2p networks or search engines in hopes of finding porn.
It will be a Trojan Horse for the ones not opposing it. Once they have it, they can easily be segregated by ISP's, by Search Engines, by wives, by colleges. They can easily be dropped from affiliates that know how to provide the traffic.
Remember, a majority of these companies still depend on affiliates for their traffic (they may have a lot of traffic but it's because of years and years of links and linking from affiliates - once those domains aren't good anymore & not pointing to the .XXX TLD, it's gone) & it will definitely take about 1-2 years for them to build up their traffic sources again. That's 'IF' they manage to get back the same affiliates & the same quantity.
If they can afford to wait - good but this will be like the internet being reborn. Difference is, their competition (which will still be growing but not be affected by this) will be P2P networks and scumware that can still direct the traffic wherever 'they' want. They are shooting themselves in the foot:
1) CPA per member will go up
2) Their cashflow will take a huge hit
3) Most will not comfortably have the financial safety net to support their huge companies & overhead for the next 1-2 years.
If these people do not see how this TLD will affect the entire industry unfavorably, I strongly suggest they sit down with people who can explain cause and effect to them and how it will trickle into their pockets from many directions.
Even 'show' organizers will no longer have the income source of shows. They can forget their elaborate shows for the next 3 years after XXX is implemented. Affiliates will be too busy trying to build their traffic again - sponsors will not be blowing 50k+ in order to promote their program to affiliates that will not be travelling and spending money to go to shows.
Also - take note::: when the affiliates start rebuilding their traffic again, I can assure you that it won't be the wild west anymore. People will be looking with a magnifying glass on which sponsors backed this TLD that caused their entire business model to become useless from one day to the next.
Remember, a Trojan Horse can look like the blessing from the heavens (as per your buddies that are getting kickbacks to push this thing through) but once it's here, you too shall suffer because of it.