GoDaddy Announces .XXX Pricing

[D Ghost]

MESA, Ariz. ? GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar, has announced pricing for .XXX domain names.

.XXX domains acquired through GoDaddy are priced the following:

During the Sunrise A period, .XXX domains through GoDaddy will be priced at $209.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Sunrise A applicants must have either verifiable trademark rights or are owners of exact matching domains in other TLDs.

During Sunrise B, created for non-adult industry intellectual property holders, GoDaddy plans on charging $199.99 for the one-time, non-refundable, non-reversible processing fee that blocks the domain name from .XXX registration for 10 years. Sunrise B allows companies to block their domains in the .XXX sTLD.

Pricing for Landrush, where there are no qualification requirements, is at $199.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Landrush is designed for online adult operators but is not on a first-come, first-served basis and applications for competing names will go to a closed-auction at the end of the period.

General Availability pricing for GoDaddy .XXX domain names is $99.99 for the first year of domain name registration, with renewals at $99.99 per year. The domain names for General Availability are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

.XXX?s Sunrise period starts in September, with Landrush in November. General Availability is slated for December.

http://www.xbiz.com/news/137424

[alias]

[TheDA]

Got the emails earlier.

[Klen]

Nothing unusual,sooner or later all registrars will offer it.

[Rochard]

$209?

You gotta be shitting me. Well, I guess they have a lot of people they need to pay off!

[247mg]

Offcourse... If any domain registrar person here ask him how many application of pre registeration they already got.... We all will be surprised .. Even those who are saying that they are not interested or expensive they all booked for their xxx extention

[Chosen]

Fuck GoDaddy and .XXX

[CYF]

Godaddy sucks.

Name.com pricing:
Sunrise A $199.99
Sunrise B $159.99
Landrush $149.99
Pre-reg $84.99

Offcourse... If any domain registrar person here ask him how many application of pre registeration they already got.... We all will be surprised .. Even those who are saying that they are not interested or expensive they all booked for their xxx extention

I've pre-registered 0.
I will buy 0.

[Chosen]

LoL

[MediaGuy]

Well they gotta pull a profit from the stupid price ICM is charging. They should charge more. What idiot is going to buy a .xxx domain anyway? lol

:D

[marcop]

[d-null]

domains pulled

[Caligari]

209.00? does that include elephant tusks;)

[pornmasta]

And what the added value of this: XXX ?

redtube.xxx ?
youporn.xxx ?

[D Ghost]

domains pulled

[DBS.US]

Next year it will be .x

[alias]

Next year it will be .x

Way cooler looking.

[selena]

You are cordially invited to see my sig.

[Vox]

Well they gotta pull a profit from the stupid price ICM is charging. They should charge more. What idiot is going to buy a .xxx domain anyway? lol

:D

The "idiot" domainer Frank Shilling dropped 7 figures and bought up these domains:


amateur.xxx
amateurs.xxx
anal.xxx
asian.xxx
asians.xxx
bollywood.xxx
book.xxx
celeb.xxx
celebs.xxx
chat.xxx
dating.xxx
free.xxx
gratis.xxx
hardcore.xxx
hot.xxx
indian.xxx
latin.xxx
lesbian.xxx
lesbians.xxx
live.xxx
milf.xxx
milfs.xxx
oral.xxx
porno.xxx
pornos.xxx
pussies.xxx
pussy.xxx
sexe.xxx
sexo.xxx
sexy.xxx
video.xxx
videos.xxx
webcam.xxx

[emjay]

The "idiot" domainer Frank Shilling dropped 7 figures and bought up these domains:


amateur.xxx
amateurs.xxx
anal.xxx
asian.xxx
asians.xxx
bollywood.xxx
book.xxx
celeb.xxx
celebs.xxx
chat.xxx
dating.xxx
free.xxx
gratis.xxx
hardcore.xxx
hot.xxx
indian.xxx
latin.xxx
lesbian.xxx
lesbians.xxx
live.xxx
milf.xxx
milfs.xxx
oral.xxx
porno.xxx
pornos.xxx
pussies.xxx
pussy.xxx
sexe.xxx
sexo.xxx
sexy.xxx
video.xxx
videos.xxx
webcam.xxx

Here's what he said recently:

?Having had a front row seat as an observer of the human behavior behind domain names and direct navigation for nearly a decade, I believe that .XXX, unlike many other new tlds, offers SLD registrants the opportunity for long term type-in traffic.

Many people navigate in a way that suggests they believe .XXX existed all along. Few strings other than .XXX share this attribute. ICM Registry?s success in tapping this well of traffic should create long-term opportunity for registrants of all stripes and color.

My chance meeting with Stuart Lawley at the 2005 ICANN meeting in Vancouver, and his tenacity and big-hearted altruistic outlook, gave me the confidence that this space would be run in a way that treats its registrants fairly. I believe .XXX will make a great accompaniment to the .COM version of adult sites and that one day .XXX could eclipse the .COM version of name-brands for adult sites.?

His purchase was paid in cash. Without incentives or rebates.

[Cyber Fucker]

7 figures you say, just wow. I don't have that much and even If I had there are much better ways to invest 7 figures.

I'm not going to preorder anything when all good are already taken then what's the point of spending that much money for something second or third class that is not .com?
I did a shot for a few .co when there was Landrush period... but there were auction for all my picks anyway and the bids ended on something like 40.000 USD for short cool name (not even a keyword). Obviously I didn't take part in that madness.

[garce]

Pecker pulled. Links to follow.

[Si]

Fuck GoDaddy and .XXX

[adultchatpay]

.xxx will soon rise! We may laugh at it for now just like people didn't gave attention at the early .com

[Failed]

Waste of money

[PromoterX]

.xxx will soon rise! We may laugh at it for now just like people didn't gave attention at the early .com

Ill bookmark this thread to laugh at this comment 5 years from now...

/hopefully not reading this comment from gfy.xxx

[LeRoy]

It's here now. Lets see how this plays out.

Big sites need protection from their brand right?

I bethcha Lawley's goin hahahahahaha right now. So pony up bitches lol

[LeRoy]

Here's from Lawley himself on Xbiz
<quote>
"I am sorry that some of you still seem to be focussed on the cost, without seeing the revenue generating upside."
</quote>
Wow!!

[Korea1818]

Wow, that's pretty expensive.

[drmadcat]

so i have 60 adult domains if i buy .xxx for each one it will cost me
$209 x 60 = $12540
ye right fucking crazy

[FreeHugeMovies]

Webmasters are cheap mofos by trade. A top level XXX domain sure, but everything else is worthless.

[will76]

MESA, Ariz. — GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar, has announced pricing for .XXX domain names.

.XXX domains acquired through GoDaddy are priced the following:

During the Sunrise A period, .XXX domains through GoDaddy will be priced at $209.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Sunrise A applicants must have either verifiable trademark rights or are owners of exact matching domains in other TLDs.

During Sunrise B, created for non-adult industry intellectual property holders, GoDaddy plans on charging $199.99 for the one-time, non-refundable, non-reversible processing fee that blocks the domain name from .XXX registration for 10 years. Sunrise B allows companies to block their domains in the .XXX sTLD.

Pricing for Landrush, where there are no qualification requirements, is at $199.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Landrush is designed for online adult operators but is not on a first-come, first-served basis and applications for competing names will go to a closed-auction at the end of the period.

General Availability pricing for GoDaddy .XXX domain names is $99.99 for the first year of domain name registration, with renewals at $99.99 per year. The domain names for General Availability are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

.XXX’s Sunrise period starts in September, with Landrush in November. General Availability is slated for December.

http://www.xbiz.com/news/137424

EXCELLENT !

Priced so high they priced themselves out of the market and out of relevancy. The way the economy is right now with people bailing out of the adult industry and closing shop and/or being on a lot tighter budgets you not going to find many people to folk over $100+ for a domain name. Not when they can renew 10 of their dot com domains that they are likely using for the same price of 1 new .xxx.

Also, domainers are less likely to buy up domains on pure speculation due to the high price. A lot of those guys can't afford to renew their decent .com portofolios much less can they drop a lot of money on speculating on a new tld , which has a very narrow niche resale market.

Lastly, less sales = less hype and less use which also = less publicity and less exposure to the general public which = less chances of it ever being pushed/accept as law.

All signs point to fail. Then throw in some new tld's hopefully in the next year or so for .adult .sex .porn etc.. and .xxx becomes the butt of a joke about some British wanker who wasted 10 years and millions of dollars on a total bust.

Here's from Lawley himself on Xbiz
<quote>
"I am sorry that some of you still seem to be focussed on the cost, without seeing the revenue generating upside."
</quote>
Wow!!

LMAO, can't see the revenue generating "upside" because it doesn't exist, that is why we can't see it. Show people the revenue and then you might get some sales. I'll give you the fact that there is a lot of stupid people who would fall for smoke and mirrors like that, but there isn't a lot of stupid people here who can afford to spend $100 for 1 domain name. lol Nice time you want to con an industy make it cheap enough that you can con the majority of them, not just a few. Fail again.

Moron doesn't understand that he will make 10x more money in volume with lower prices than he would by pricing it so high that very few people will buy it.

Ill bookmark this thread to laugh at this comment 5 years from now...

/hopefully not reading this comment from gfy.xxx

Why wait 5 years, it's a pretty fucking hysterical comment now. I am laughing at it now.

[will76]

The "idiot" domainer Frank Shilling dropped 7 figures and bought up these domains:


amateur.xxx
amateurs.xxx
anal.xxx
asian.xxx
asians.xxx
bollywood.xxx
book.xxx
celeb.xxx
celebs.xxx
chat.xxx
dating.xxx
free.xxx
gratis.xxx
hardcore.xxx
hot.xxx
indian.xxx
latin.xxx
lesbian.xxx
lesbians.xxx
live.xxx
milf.xxx
milfs.xxx
oral.xxx
porno.xxx
pornos.xxx
pussies.xxx
pussy.xxx
sexe.xxx
sexo.xxx
sexy.xxx
video.xxx
videos.xxx
webcam.xxx

So much for the .com owners getting first shot to register their .xxx equivalent. I guess that rule doesn't apply when its a good one word domain he can peddle for a much higher price than a couple hundred bucks. That's right boys and girls, you can only over pay for .xxx domains if you have ok to shitty .com's. If you have a really good .com, your .xxx domain goes to the highest bidder apparently.

The problem with Stuarts pricing points is that they are so high that once you get past the few idiots who feel the need to register .xxx for their adult domains, and you eliminate the 10 - 20K of the best domains, no one else is going to pay $100 + for a mediocre .xxx domain name that would never see any type in traffic on a .com much less would it on a .xxx Now if they were priced at $10 - $20 a piece he would probably have millions of registrations and almost everyone with an adult .com would buy the .xxx Greedy Stuart, finally gets things approved and he is going to fuck it up for himself with a really high pricing point.

[Paul Markham]

The "idiot" domainer Frank Shilling dropped 7 figures and bought up these domains:

amateur.xxx
amateurs.xxx
anal.xxx
asian.xxx
asians.xxx
bollywood.xxx
book.xxx
celeb.xxx
celebs.xxx
chat.xxx
dating.xxx
free.xxx
gratis.xxx
hardcore.xxx
hot.xxx
indian.xxx
latin.xxx
lesbian.xxx
lesbians.xxx
live.xxx
milf.xxx
milfs.xxx
oral.xxx
porno.xxx
pornos.xxx
pussies.xxx
pussy.xxx
sexe.xxx
sexo.xxx
sexy.xxx
video.xxx
videos.xxx
webcam.xxx

If the traffic goes to these domains there will be a line of online porn people stretching around the block to buy ads or traffic or send him traffic for his sites.

Because online adult has balls the size of peas.

If ICM lose money on this and stop selling .xxx, what happens to the domains that were sold?

[Matyko]

shameless rip off!

[My Pimp]

I do not like the .xxx ending. May be there will be a law that allows adult content only on .xxx domains.

[Zorgman]

Silly. Even $99 a year is a joke.

[V_RocKs]

I make good money without bigtits.com. I think I will do equally well without bigtits.xxx.

[seeandsee]

No sir, il pass over it

[Barry-xlovecam]

.xxx names are so valuable they should be more money ...

Let's say $499/year

That way the pigs will sell so few they will go broke of their own gluttony.

[JohnRingo]

Here's what he said recently:

?Having had a front row seat as an observer of the human behavior behind domain names and direct navigation for nearly a decade, I believe that .XXX, unlike many other new tlds, offers SLD registrants the opportunity for long term type-in traffic.

Many people navigate in a way that suggests they believe .XXX existed all along. Few strings other than .XXX share this attribute. ICM Registry?s success in tapping this well of traffic should create long-term opportunity for registrants of all stripes and color.

My chance meeting with Stuart Lawley at the 2005 ICANN meeting in Vancouver, and his tenacity and big-hearted altruistic outlook, gave me the confidence that this space would be run in a way that treats its registrants fairly. I believe .XXX will make a great accompaniment to the .COM version of adult sites and that one day .XXX could eclipse the .COM version of name-brands for adult sites.?

His purchase was paid in cash. Without incentives or rebates.

we already know that google will block porn terms from their auto-fill search function, i am assuming that google will direct to .xxx when someone searches for an adult related term instead of .com

[CaptainHowdy]

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[mafia_man]

You're fucking stupid if you don't buy xxx.

Because:

- there's gonna' be legislation against using .com for porn in some countries really soon.
- nobody knows what the search engines will do
- nobody knows what the cc processors will do

Don't go buying everything but cover your main names.

Yes the price is ridiculous and the whole idea is fucking stupid but there you go.

[ottopottomouse]

This is how the place I usually register .co.uk domains at is trying to get people to buy the .xxx - totally scare tactics:



123-reg.co.uk pricing:
Sunrise AT £199.99 ($325)
Sunrise AD £149.99 ($244)
Sunrise B £199.99 ($325) one-off blocking fee
Landrush £129.99 ($212)
Pre-reg £69.99 ($114)

[nikki99]

wtf those prices?

[Denny]

I've pre-registered 0.
I will buy 0.

[fogfever]

7 figures you say, just wow. I don't have that much and even If I had there are much better ways to invest 7 figures.

I'm not going to preorder anything when all good are already taken then what's the point of spending that much money for something second or third class that is not .com?
I did a shot for a few .co when there was Landrush period... but there were auction for all my picks anyway and the bids ended on something like 40.000 USD for short cool name (not even a keyword). Obviously I didn't take part in that madness.

7 figures is way to much for these .xxx names.

[spazlabz]

.xxx will soon rise! We may laugh at it for now just like people didn't gave attention at the early .com

I am not trying to be insulting here but who exactly did not pay attention to the early .com? It has been king of the TLDs since I started in 96 with my 14.4 modem and 1 GB hard drive

[Young]

I read the shit above about type in traffic and I can see that being plausible. Sitting there at your computer typing in every dirty combination of keywords followed by xxx to see where it takes you.

The only problem i see with that - .xxx will be filled with squatters.

[will76]

we already know that google will block porn terms from their auto-fill search function, i am assuming that google will direct to .xxx when someone searches for an adult related term instead of .com

Why does everyone automatically assume that google is going to blow .xxx ? Do they own stock in ICM or something I don't know about??? I wouldn't be surprised if it was the opposite and they treat .xxx with less weight than .com, no different then how they handle .us .co .info etc.