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Originally posted by Rictor
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I would only buy .xxx domains even if it wasn't a legal requirement.
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Start saving up your money then.. at a price tag of $70 - $75 per .XXX domain.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5176620.html
An excerpt from the article:
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Under his proposal, submitted last week to the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), .xxx domain names would be sold for $70
to $75 each. Child pornography would be verboten, but pretty much anything
else would be permissible, Lawley said. "Apart from child pornography, which
is completely illegal, we're really not in the content-monitoring business."
Instead, Lawley and his partners are in the business to make money. A report
from Reuters Business Insight in February 2003 calculated that sex
represented two-thirds of all online content revenue in 2001, and that it
had ballooned to a $2.5 billion industry since then. Lawley estimates that
25 percent of all Internet search queries are related to sex and that over a
million adult domain names exist. Owning the rights to sell pieces of .xxx
real estate, he concluded, would be a perfect way to make money off of
consumers' insatiable appetite for online raunch and ribaldry.
Free-expression issues
The way the proposed .xxx registry would work is twofold. Lawley's company,
ICM Registry, would handle the technical aspects of running the master
database of .xxx sex sites. For its troubles, it would charge $60 a domain
name and let resellers add their own markup of perhaps $10 to $15 per
domain.
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