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Originally Posted by arock10
actually watched/listened to the whole vid and came to the conclusion .xxx doesn't fucking matter unless you've got a brand to protect. And then you can just sue anyone else registering your TM. Just like any other extension....
sooooo whats the point of .xxx again? Why do these large companies give a damn anyway, surfers know .com is king and thats the reason why every other extension ever (.biz, .mobi, etc) have completely flopped. Who cares if some seo wiz kid drops the $70 on your .xxx extension, they probably registered the .org and .biz 3 years ago anyway
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I think what troubles a lot of people are the unknown answers to the "what if" questions, many of which still linger about .XXX now that the contract between ICANN and ICM has been signed.
A few examples:
* What if VISA decides that it is only comfortable with processing charges for adult sites that are located on .XXX (hey, unlike .COM porn sites, .XXX sites have "best practices" and a "policy board" after all...) and announces that they will no longer allow payments to .COM-based adult sites?
* What if use of .XXX by adult webmasters/companies becomes mandatory under the law? (Sure, First Amendment precedent makes that very unlikely to occur in the U.S., but what about in other countries that don't have the equivalent legal protection under their national laws/constitutions?)
* What if in blocking .XXX sites, governments and/or other institutions inclined to do so decide that if they find a .COM site with the same brand name as a .XXX they are already blocking/filtering, they should go ahead and block/filter out the .COM equivalent, as well?
* What if IFFOR decides to restrict certain types and categories of content (like, say, bondage scenes that also include penetration), what effect could that policy have on obscenity prosecutions of that same sort of content within the U.S.? Imagine a prosecutor saying "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this man's content is so far out there that .XXX, the official sponsored top-level domain of the adult entertainment industry, does not even allow his content to be displayed on that TLD; what does
that tell you about whether his content should be considered acceptable by
your community's standards?"
That's just a handful of the questions that have been bouncing around the brains of the bigger companies when weighing the potential pros and cons of .XXX. In other words, branding is a concern, but it is far from the only concern.
I'm no psychic, so I don't know what any of the answers to those questions will be. The primary reason I opposed the creation of .XXX is that I preferred to continue on doing business as usual without having to find out the answers to those questions, quite frankly.
In other words, the TLD status quo with respect to adult sites suited me just fine, so the chance that .XXX would turn out to be a good thing wasn't worth the risk that it might turn out to be a disastrous thing.
Does that make sense?