First off, I thank you for having this dialogue with me. I know you must be doing your best given the circumstances of your job, and I can respect that.
You have done a good job of listing all the benefits .xxx is promising to provide for the $100.00 price tag ($62 wholesale). However, have you thought about if adult webmasters actually
care or
want these things? If I'm paying $100 just as a defensive registration, odds are I'm not even going to use the domain, or at most I will put up a parked page linking them to the .com. I could care less about having Mcaffee virus scans, piracy protection, traffic portals or anything else. This goes back to what I said originally, which is why it's unfair that we have to pay so much just for 'defensive registrations' when we will not be getting any value out of these benefits in return.
And now, we are getting into the fundamental problem with .xxx. According to
this article, 85% of current .xxx domain registrations are only for defensive registration purposes.
IMHO .xxx is going to look like a largely empty TLD and continue on a downward spiral unless some extremely drastic changes are made.