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Originally Posted by will76
Its amazing how you think my argument is that ".xxx will kill .com's" when I have never said anything even close to that. I simply said this will not be the same as the release of .me, .us, .co etc... You seem to think it will be no different than all of the other tld's. I'm saying it is going to be different, some people WILL go to .xxx. I never said, nor do I think it will "kill" .com's. However, I think enough people will go to .xxx for porn related names that it gives it enough value that a lot of people (either .com owners, or domain speculators) will buy up a shit load of .xxx domains.
The media has already started: http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=....aa1da5ed888593 and once the first .xxx domains go live they going to be all over it again.
Correct, very few people type in words today for .com's to see if something is on the domain, but when .xxx comes out people are going to be curious, there will be a lot of type in traffic for good and great keyword adult domains.
So what if it dies down after 6 months or so. So the 500K registrations that happened the first year, so what if only 250K of them renew the next. Either way its a huge win for asshole Lawley and a big loss for us. You guys can smoke on that optimism pipe all you want if it makes you feel better, but it is pretty easy to see how this is going to play out. |
the only difference is, its porn and the 'mandatory' scare tactic. .mobi got over 1 million domains registered in less than a year and had sponsorship by major telco's and had some big companies use it but they are worthless now. i don't doubt tons of domains will be registered but will it be profitable to do so? I don't think so. I am not saying millions of dollars won't be spent. I am just saying .xxx will not catch on big time and a lot of people will be out a lot of money. no matter what the type in situation is, the .com's will always get more than the .xxx and since the best .xxx will go to the .com owners already, the majority that will be registered will be worthless with next to or zero type in traffic.