Originally Posted by Relentless

I am ranking several sites for major keywords right now in mainstream and adult using other TLDs. It definitely is possible to rank with non-dot-coms. While it's true that .xxx ranks well, so do all of the other new TLDs. Google paid 25M for .App and rebranded as ABC.XYZ when they do not own ABC.com - they are doing all they can to tell people that non-dot-com domains have value in their algorithm now.

Where .xxx really shines is that you can pick up .porn, .adult and others for the same name if you buy them - wish that was the case with other TLDs where it definitely is not.