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Just for the record, Aly asked me to participate on the panel, not Jason or Stuart. We are and remain neutral on the extension and we stand to make far less money on this extension than any others that were newly introduced. As you know, there will only be 100K of these domains registered.....maybe in the first year instead of 750K - 2M as with other extensions. As you also may know, we are the only registrar that openly serves the adult domain community...the only one that exhibits at the adult shows and conferences, participates on panels, sponsors events, etc. We serve some of the largest adult clients because we understand that adult community treat their domains like assets and that is in line with the way we run our business. We also offer the very highest levels of security, privacy and customer service, which again are particularly important to this community.
Before deciding whether to even position ourselves to offer this extension, we asked almost every one of our adult clients what their opinion was before getting prepared. More than 96% of 220+ adult clients told us that we better offer the .xxx extension regardless of whether they approve/agree of it or not. They wanted to make sure that they did not have to go elsewhere to register the domains. They made it clear that they would be protecting their key brands and trademarks regardless of how they felt about it.
What everyone should be cautious of are those companies offering pre-registration for this extension when they are not authorized to do so. Taking money from those that think they will get the domains first by paying now or putting pre-reservations on .xxx names now...is considered fraudulent activity in my opinion. Only a few ICANN Accredited Registrars will be qualified to offer the trademark protection rights to the Adult Community and we have qualified to be one of them due to our clientele, reputation, and technical ability to offer this to our customers.
So when and if this extension ever comes to be....or any others for that matter, we are still here to help all of you protect your self.
Thanks,
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