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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
No need for an army - only a handful of payment processors dominate the adult industry. Without payment processing, no business.
It's likely payment processors will likely take the lead and require adult sites to operate completely within .XXX.
Already, payment processors dictate numerous things that adult sites must abide by, including naming conventions, such as forbidding various words / phrases in domains and metatags.
Ron
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Although I understand your meaning this is not actually the case. Processors (and acquiring banks) don't necessarily like regulations, it impedes their ability to expand their profit margins. It's the card association regulations and laws that make them impose requirements.
Because I specialize in high risk merchant account and processing placement, I run into this every day of the week and I can honestly say that no bank/processor likes to boot a profitable merchant off their system simply because they can't meet some new regulation that pops up.
That being said, just as with gambling, pharma etc etc, there will always be companies willing to dodge regs and creative alternatives for processing payments ... period! Money talks, plain and simple.
Of course it won't happen but ..... Wouldn't it be an ironic twist if the card associations prohibited the use of V and MC from being used to purchase a .xxx domain name? THAT would put the .xxx registries panties in a wad! lol