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Originally Posted by $pikes
Jay... I will remind you of this when some sniper takes TheContentStore.xxx out from under you. You'll be fully 2257 compliant with no domain to use. I hope you've trademarked. Which brings me to the sex.com video you provided to Donovan. Do you want to go thru all the legal expenses and lost sleep over litigation for your domain? I don't. YOU are a major player in the biz with more history than most of us. Many of us look up to you and listen to your advice but, I have to disagree here. 2257 is manageable.. sux ass and I hate it, but it's manageable for most of us. Loosing a shot at registering our .xxx versions of our sites because we all know the choice ones will be handed out in these backroom deals and/or then one day soon .xxx censored by some ISPs or Visa, is NOT manageable.
I'll take having our 9-5 office with a filing cabinet of 2257 records over that anyday.
I love you.. you know this... Now lets drink some Purple Jesus at the show next week and REALLY talk this over. Maybe I'm "missing it" and need it explained better.
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$pikes,
You know I have massive respect for and love for you and AND your views. You're making a lot of assumptions about how this .xxx thing is going to be handled, bro - and I doubt very highly that ANY domain is going to be handed out to anyone in a backroom deal - too many eyes watching ... industry wide, as well as ICANN and MANY OTHERS!
You're smart enough to know that
some of the opposition ARE opposition NOW because they coudn't guarantee they were going to get THEIR's in a backroom deal.
And yes, because of this and numerous other reasons it's mandatory to trademark domain names I we ALL conduct business under. However, I don't believe that it can or will be mandated that we give up .coms and be required to only do business on .xxx's.
I explained why last night to Mike
The argument that Visa and ISP's will "censor" .XXX is more viable, yet will reign down a shit storm of lawsuits and create other opportunities for alternative payment systems and ISP's that will vigorously court adult business. SURFERS THAT WANT PORN WILL GET PORN! If things go the way you believe, we'll see more qualified customers and waste less bandwidth.
You say that 2257 is managable and I agree. I also believe that .xxx will be managable too.
Although they BOTH may make conducting business more difficult initially, neither will shut it down. Savy business people will make the adjustments necessary to continue on - and others will simply give up. The pie gets bigger. The strong will survive. It's the law of the jungle.
