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Originally Posted by Tempest
If you were the .xxx guys, what would be your next step... To lobey governments and various groups to have all porn sites have to use .xxx to protect kids.
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I keep seeing this, but don't see how that is even possible. In the US would it even be legal?
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At this point all porn companies are going to have to purchase their .xxx domains to protect their brands and to be prepared for that sort of outcome. I don't see that they have much of a choice now.
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AIUI (not much) a company can block their trademark from being registered, without registering it themselves. Which if true seems to be the best way for adult companies that oppose .xxx to proceed.
Personally I think there are already way too many spurious and unnecessary extensions, like .info,. us, eu, .biz, etc. They're just a license to print money. It's the
only reason they are created.
The only way I'd buy an .xxx is if a name like cars.xxx or something was available for reg fee, because it could be sold on for more. However two seconds into the Landrush period all names worth registering will be gone.
I also don't see the point in trying to run a site on .xxx because when it goes fully live, it won't just be Kenya and other third world countries banning it, but companies, governments and filter software in countries where people have credit cards.
.XXX won't fail, it will just be fairly pointless and fall into the background, like the other (non com/net/org/major ccTLD) domain extensions that have gone before it.
