Ok so it's been suggested that the "biggest money makers" including possibly Lensman (or even Playboy?) support .xxx
would be funny if Playboy supported .xxx and Hustler opposed
as for Lensman, he made a thread one year ago which seemed finding some good points about .xxx (give us a seperate domain and stop the prosecutions) but is that really a true, well thought off position of him and all the "biggest players"?
It's hard for me to jugde Lensman or anyone else on that level... but a believe that having .xxx will actually solve such problems seems a little naive to me... not to mention that if this .xxx gets in fact approved, it will probably have a marginal impact and market share at the very beginning... I don't see Playboy changing from Playboy.com to playboy.xxx immediately on their own, I don't see the RealityCash paysites changing names etc...
the main risk in .xxx in the risk of it becoming mandatory (either the govermnent or f.e the credit card processing companies could switch porn from .com to .xxx) and yes, it would change the adult scene... but at the same time it would put everyone in this biz at risk of losing huge traffic, because of being filtered by default by browsers, ISP's etc...
I still see no advantages of having .xxx for anyone (other than an organisation like ASACP getting a share of each domain(?)...but well, Lensman is not ASACP)
Somoene also said .xxx will kiill the affiliate biz but that arguments doesnt make much sense.... the affiliate biz got even stronger recently with companies like Realitycash offering free content and free hosting to every n00b who can send 1 sale daily....
arhh just some thoughts... I don't have access to the insider info anyway