You guys didn't read the thread at porn city, right ? It was the REGISTRAR who did this. THEY redirected the sites to THEIR site.
http://domainnamesystems.com was the only one to sell the .xxx.us extension. Now they say they are no longer selling them or support them, & AS OF 2/15, all DNS for those extensions has been pointed to THEIR site. They registered & sold the .xxx.us extensions just like regular domains. They show up in my domain list at their site just like regular domains. And these domains were paid for until June/July before they expired.
I started buying these extensions after they came out with that new law. I figured people couldn't say they didn't know that it was an Adult Site having that extension. Man, was I a fucking sucker !! What they did was let us buy those extensions, build up the traffic (my sites averaged 25,000 - 300,000 Hits a Month, depending on the Domain) & now they redirected all that traffic back to THEIR own TGP.
What sucks the worst is that all these sites were Pay Sites. I have lost 49 Members over the last 3 days. It wouldn't hurt so bad if it was just myself, BUT it is also hurting the Webmasters that partnered with me to promote these sites. So they are losing income also. And it really hurts when you have some people like GG, Danger D, Cleo, ect. promoting these sites.
It is hard enough to build a reputation of being honest in this business, then shit like this happens. I know it wasn't my fault, but looking at it from both sides, I would be skeptical about promoting another site for a person that this happened to.
That is what hurts the worst. I can always get new domains, rebuild the sites, ect. It will take a while, but it can be done. It is just the damn pricipal behind it. When you use a Registrar, you expect them to be honest. Now I am out the lost income, lost Affiliates, cost of designs, ect. And THEY get to benefit from the traffic that I built up.
ggross