stop dot xxx with other people's money.

[wasteland]

Oh. The consistent link to look for on mainstream corporate sites to get attention is "Investor Relations". They do tend to watch input from that page. Have a party!

[wasteland]

oops! i am a gfy retard and started a new post with this.
okay. i am an old dude. cut me some slack.
here is the context:

If concerned and want to shake things up, go to as many fortune 500 companies as you have time for and alert them to this as an "anonymous stockholder concerned about any revenue being paid to dot-xxx that might be viewed as extortion by the SEC". Send links to the Xbiz article. That will make the ground rumble in a hurry, as most mainstream corps have no idea this is about to come up and bite them.

Cheers

[marlboroack]

You kick it back since 1994 eh? Nice

[Redrob]

Dayummmmm! That will put some pepper in their corporate shorts for sure....

[davecummings]

I like the idea--thanks!

[wasteland]

and this just in:
http://fscblogger.wordpress.com/2011...mark-blocking/

[Agent 488]

since it's mainstream news doubt too many are unaware of it.

[wasteland]

So, with all of that in mind, an imaginary etter to, say, Disney Corporation from an imaginary citizen?
(PARODY)

"Dear Walt,
I have loved your work for 50 years since my birth. I went to Disney World on its first year when I was just a small boy. As I grew up, I always maintained the values I learned from your vision, and when I finally had children, I passed along your wonderful values to them.

My dad invested $20,000 in Disney when I was born and that is putting my kids through college. But, what I read today HORRIFIED ME!!!!!!!! There is some PORN COMPANY that wants to have a DISNEY.XXX that will infect my coming grandkids with PORN. But, the further I read, the worse it got!

This PORN company wants to bilk you (and me, as one of your investors) out of a LOT of money to keep DISNEY free of Dot-xxx Porn.

Can't you just litigate them into the 8th century for all of us?
That would kind of be better than have all of this dragged out into the open media, cost me as a longterm stock holder a lot of money, and take the joy out of my family going to WDW every spring and having breakfast with Mickey?

Please help by squashing ICM Registry like a bug.
Walt would want you to.
So do all of us.

Mr. Ward Cleaver
Middleville, Oh

[Herd]

"FSC urges all adult online business owners to stay .COM" ? say NO to .XXX.

Words to live by.

For a porno company to be shaking down legitimate businesses seems to be going to far.

And for everyone saying the public doesnt care about .XXX, guess they will now, since alot of them will have to pay.

[Jman]

oops! i am a gfy retard and started a new post with this.
okay. i am an old dude. cut me some slack.
here is the context:

If concerned and want to shake things up, go to as many fortune 500 companies as you have time for and alert them to this as an "anonymous stockholder concerned about any revenue being paid to dot-xxx that might be viewed as extortion by the SEC". Send links to the Xbiz article. That will make the ground rumble in a hurry, as most mainstream corps have no idea this is about to come up and bite them.

Cheers

You're not old... You're Wise my friend

[wasteland]

Oh, and if you do contact a corp, be sure to use your real name and provide contact info.
I was being silly when i said to do it anonymously!

Colin

[Jman]

and this just in:
http://fscblogger.wordpress.com/2011...mark-blocking/

Please share this on your facebook folks. The more we educate non industry people properly about this scam, the better it will be.

[wasteland]

And Tweet and twit and twat!
Spread the word on this. It's rather large in the larger context now.

[Redrob]

IBM.XXX- -- -- - - - my new scat site

Just Foolin'.....

[Jman]

Democrats.xxx 4 more years ;-)

That could make for a kickass parody site

[wasteland]

And here is the parallel to this:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...-patent-troll/

Think a moment on that after you read it.

Lodsys is starting at the bottom and going after app developers until Steve Jobs squishes them like a bug as it affects his sacred cow of iTunes.

ICM is starting with the Fortune 500 trademarks to get in some money back into their war chest before collecting off of the adult industry.

Those of us around long enough will remember Acacia. Their litigation burn rate, and how they eventually fell off the radar. This is a far more complex set of circumstances, but the results are written on the wall that ICM is damned, no matter what cow they try to milk first.

Once fortune 500 trademark companies get this on their radar, ICM is going to be hit like a tsunami in the face by companies like Warner Brothers, Apple, Facebook Google and Time Warner. Stuart Lawley has a bit of money, but NOTHING that can deal with that level of litigation.

Even if they survive that, not capitalizing the $10 million they have burned already to bamboozle and bully ICANN, when they get to the actual adult industry to sell the domains, it is just going to get even worse. Sure, they will sell a lot to domainers and Ukarainian mobsters, but over the course of two years, their burn rate is going to be significant enough to make them at least think about sliding back under the rock from which they came. What is more likely is that they will die a horrible and painful death after 10 years of very expensive litigation from both mainstream and adult companies that have had their trademarks violated. Oh. And let's not forget ICANN probably losing its charter next year for inappropriate behavior in the current new gTLD debacle that lead to Dot-XXX being approved through probable threats, back room deals and bullying of the board of directors.

Add to that, REALLY bad ICM staffing decisions and announcements, new employees that made asses of themselves on the B2B boards, and a bullying attitude that has really angered people over the years.

I'll just stay with my dot-com, thank you.

[alias]

It is starting look like .xxx is a .fail.

[Socks]

All of XXX is a failure right now, why would I pay to put a . in front of it? ;)

[Herd]

And here is the parallel to this:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...-patent-troll/

Think a moment on that after you read it.

Lodsys is starting at the bottom and going after app developers until Steve Jobs squishes them like a bug as it affects his sacred cow of iTunes.

ICM is starting with the Fortune 500 trademarks to get in some money back into their war chest before collecting off of the adult industry.

Those of us around long enough will remember Acacia. Their litigation burn rate, and how they eventually fell off the radar. This is a far more complex set of circumstances, but the results are written on the wall that ICM is damned, no matter what cow they try to milk first.

Once fortune 500 trademark companies get this on their radar, ICM is going to be hit like a tsunami in the face by companies like Warner Brothers, Apple, Facebook Google and Time Warner. Stuart Lawley has a bit of money, but NOTHING that can deal with that level of litigation.

Even if they survive that, not capitalizing the $10 million they have burned already to bamboozle and bully ICANN, when they get to the actual adult industry to sell the domains, it is just going to get even worse. Sure, they will sell a lot to domainers and Ukarainian mobsters, but over the course of two years, their burn rate is going to be significant enough to make them at least think about sliding back under the rock from which they came. What is more likely is that they will die a horrible and painful death after 10 years of very expensive litigation from both mainstream and adult companies that have had their trademarks violated. Oh. And let's not forget ICANN probably losing its charter next year for inappropriate behavior in the current new gTLD debacle that lead to Dot-XXX being approved through probable threats, back room deals and bullying of the board of directors.

Add to that, REALLY bad ICM staffing decisions and announcements, new employees that made asses of themselves on the B2B boards, and a bullying attitude that has really angered people over the years.

I'll just stay with my dot-com, thank you.

Forcing all mainstream with trademarks to buy .XXX "or else" alternative, seems like such a creepy idea, destined for PR nightmare. Hopefully this will be the 1st of things that chips away at ICM's strategy.

That said, we all know .XXX means nothing without law passed from Congress.

Joan Irvine has friends in Washington.

Does ICM have the potential, and enough "outside invested capital", to convince the Democratic Senate, to start the campaign "for the children", for a triple X only tld?

Can ICM pull it off?

[DBS.US]

IBM.XXX- -- -- - - - my new scat site

Just Foolin'.....

JoanIrvine.xxx -- -- - - - my new scat site

[D Ghost]

Colin for the win

[u-Bob]

to the top.

[AtlantisCash]

i might be missing the point, but don't you think, saying a porn company may register an .xxx dom with Your name (hurting my moral values) wouldn't be helping the missleading noise done by some stupid conservatives?

[2intense]

FUCK .xxx

[wasteland]

And Dark Lady joins in:
http://dotxxxopposition.com/2011/05/...kedown-begins/

[mitch]

wasteland.xxx coming soon

[tuffruff]

You're not old... You're Wise my friend

Old and wise

[Jman]

Bump for awareness ;-) Pass this along folks

[Bryan Pink TV]

this is a really good idea

[CurrentlySober]

IBM.XXX- -- -- - - - my new scat site

i like poo

[wasteland]

wasteland.xxx coming soon

I may need to spank you now, Mitch!

[Caligari]

And here is the parallel to this:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...-patent-troll/

Think a moment on that after you read it.

Lodsys is starting at the bottom and going after app developers until Steve Jobs squishes them like a bug as it affects his sacred cow of iTunes.

ICM is starting with the Fortune 500 trademarks to get in some money back into their war chest before collecting off of the adult industry.

Those of us around long enough will remember Acacia. Their litigation burn rate, and how they eventually fell off the radar. This is a far more complex set of circumstances, but the results are written on the wall that ICM is damned, no matter what cow they try to milk first.

Once fortune 500 trademark companies get this on their radar, ICM is going to be hit like a tsunami in the face by companies like Warner Brothers, Apple, Facebook Google and Time Warner. Stuart Lawley has a bit of money, but NOTHING that can deal with that level of litigation.

Even if they survive that, not capitalizing the $10 million they have burned already to bamboozle and bully ICANN, when they get to the actual adult industry to sell the domains, it is just going to get even worse. Sure, they will sell a lot to domainers and Ukarainian mobsters, but over the course of two years, their burn rate is going to be significant enough to make them at least think about sliding back under the rock from which they came. What is more likely is that they will die a horrible and painful death after 10 years of very expensive litigation from both mainstream and adult companies that have had their trademarks violated. Oh. And let's not forget ICANN probably losing its charter next year for inappropriate behavior in the current new gTLD debacle that lead to Dot-XXX being approved through probable threats, back room deals and bullying of the board of directors.

Add to that, REALLY bad ICM staffing decisions and announcements, new employees that made asses of themselves on the B2B boards, and a bullying attitude that has really angered people over the years.

I'll just stay with my dot-com, thank you.

Brilliant post, thanks for that.

[Miz_Wright]

I may need to spank you now, Mitch!

Don't tease the animals, Colin...

[LeRoy]

Great idea Colin!

Hope .XXX is one big fail

[Quentin]

I may need to spank you now, Mitch!

Do it, and post pics.

Wait.... "Mitch" is Joanna's nickname, right?

It isn't?

Never mind, then.

[wasteland]

Do it, and post pics.

Wait.... "Mitch" is Joanna's nickname, right?

It isn't?

Never mind, then.

Mitch is a guy.
With a penis. And a lot of Male Goth characteristics.

Joanna is the one with the nice boobs and 12 gallons of ink.
Get it right!

[mitch]

Mitch is a guy.
With a penis. And a lot of Male Goth characteristics.

Joanna is the one with the nice boobs and 12 gallons of ink.
Get it right!

Goth characteristics! Never!

[InfoGuy]

It may be possible to fight .XXX by somehow convincing antivirus / spyware / firewall companies to add default .XXX blocking to their products. I'm sure mainstream businesses would support .XXX blocking as it would improve productivity and reduce possible sexual harrassment issues.

We as webmasters could fight back by (1) not registering any .XXX domains (2) not linking to any .XXX domains and (3) blocking any referrals from .XXX domains.

[rhon23]

Mitch is a guy.
With a penis. And a lot of Male Goth characteristics.

Joanna is the one with the nice boobs and 12 gallons of ink.
Get it right!

I was gonna say Emo but only to piss off Mitch

[Relentless]

Interesting angle Colin ;)

[Miz_Wright]

It may be possible to fight .XXX by somehow convincing antivirus / spyware / firewall companies to add default .XXX blocking to their products. I'm sure mainstream businesses would support .XXX blocking as it would improve productivity and reduce possible sexual harrassment issues.

We as webmasters could fight back by (1) not registering any .XXX domains (2) not linking to any .XXX domains and (3) blocking any referrals from .XXX domains.

I was speaking with someone who is considering wrapping a refusal to pay on .xxx within their affiliate program, but wasn't sure if there would be legal ramifications. I tend to believe that if entire geographic IPs and regions can be blocked, a TLD should be okay to block, but I am not an attorney.

Has anyone looked into wrapping that exception into their affiliate TOS? What's the skinny on that side?