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Originally Posted by DotXXX
Search.xxx will be a fully featured search portal and should launch early next year.
And yes - of course we will be promoting and driving traffic to it.
I think critical key words will be different for search.xxx, (and this is strictly my opinion) becoming more relevant to what the consumer is actually looking to find. If they are on search.xxx they will already be looking for 'porn, XXX, etc.
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I am shocked that ICANN allowed you to do all of this. Auctions for domain names, six figure direct buys, reserving a great amount of premium names for yourselves, and now creating a search engine where presumably your own interests will get higher placement.
In my opinion this is a severe conflict of interest. You are a new registrar and you SHOULD be required to sell every domain for the standard price on a first come, first serve basis (if there is a trademark violation then deal with that after the fact according to the existing procedures). You should not be allowed to reserve thousands of questionable domain names for yourselves. You should not be allowed to negotiate 5 figure deals for those domain names and you should not be allowed to open a search engine as some sort of value added product. You are a registrar of a new tld and that's what you should be. I find it sickening that ICANN allows you to do this and I sincerely hope that you be brought in line. I know some will say "but other registrars have domain auctions too" but that's not the same because .xxx is an entirely new tld and they are able to reserve names at will to force an auction before anyone registers them even once.
IMO, the US government should be investigating both .xxx and ICANN for this fiasco. There should specifically be investigations looking for any illegal backroom deals or fraud which might be taking place both before and after ICANN approved .xxx.