Dear Webmasters,
It is with great sadness to me that .xxx has been allowed to pass, putting the livelihood of all adult webmasters at risk for the sole purposes of making money for a few greedy millionaires. Stuart Lawley has never worked one day in the adult industry in his life, yet his plan is to make billions of dollars off of our hard work by imposing .xxx on webmasters like me and you, in effect blackmailing us to pay $100 per year for our own domains or else have fun fighting slime ball cybersquatters and domain speculators for our own domains back.
At the same time, he?s already put the wheels in motion to censor what you can and can?t do on .xxx. Many people have applied for registering domain names from .xxx, only to be asked ?what do you plan to use that domain for?? .XXX claims that they are doing this because they only want to give premium domains to people that will develop them with good ideas. Do you actually trust them on this? Or do you think the reason they want you to develop the premium domains you buy is so that they can snatch them right back from you later? Think about it. Why else would they care what you do with your own domains? How does it feel to have big brother breathing down your neck?
At the same time, .xxx is already being ?monitored? by a 7 person board. According to Business Week, ?Lawley, who is otherwise uninvolved in the pornography industry, says he plans to regulate the (.xxx TLD) domain through a seven-person board, including seats reserved for porn industry players, privacy experts, and child-protection advocates.?
Webmasters, I don?t know about you, but that puts shivers down my spine. A board made up of a couple of rich business men and some child protection (and probably right wing Christian) advocates telling us what we can and can not do with our own websites?
My friends, .XXX is a disaster for the adult industry. Countries around the world are already banning the .xxx TLD (including India, aka 1.3 billion people). It puts all porn sites in the ghetto, thereby making it extremely easy for would be censors and governmental agencies to control, regulate, tax and do further damage to us. It makes it difficult for smaller webmasters, who don?t have the money to pay $100.00 per year, per site to some rich millionaires just to protect their brands and receive no value back.
And in the worst case scenario, .xxx could ultimately destroy the adult industry as we know it. Just imagine how it would affect your business if you were suddenly forced to move all of your websites to .xxx under heavy governmental regulation and control (with Billionaire Lawley sitting pretty at the top)? I can tell you all, if that day happens, it will be my last day of work in the adult industry.
It is for these reasons, and for my sincere hope that .xxx will die a slow death, that I will risk losing income myself and for my company by stating that zBUCKz will not allow Webmasters to promote our websites with .xxx websites. If you have a .xxx website, we do not want your .xxx traffic and will not pay for or honor any sales that we find that are sent from any website with .xxx. Any new affiliate applications sent from .xxx domains will be rejected.
I sincerely hope that you will all help me in the fight against .xxx, for the livelihoods of us all.
What you can do to help in the fight against .xxx:
1. Don?t pay for any domains with .xxx
2. Don?t send any traffic or do any link trades with any sites that use .xxx
3. Don?t join any affiliate programs that have paysites using .xxx
4. Do whatever you can to make it known that you do not support .xxx and will not give your money or traffic to any webmasters using .xxx sites.
May the force be with us!!
It is with great sadness to me that .xxx has been allowed to pass, putting the livelihood of all adult webmasters at risk for the sole purposes of making money for a few greedy millionaires. Stuart Lawley has never worked one day in the adult industry in his life, yet his plan is to make billions of dollars off of our hard work by imposing .xxx on webmasters like me and you, in effect blackmailing us to pay $100 per year for our own domains or else have fun fighting slime ball cybersquatters and domain speculators for our own domains back.
At the same time, he?s already put the wheels in motion to censor what you can and can?t do on .xxx. Many people have applied for registering domain names from .xxx, only to be asked ?what do you plan to use that domain for?? .XXX claims that they are doing this because they only want to give premium domains to people that will develop them with good ideas. Do you actually trust them on this? Or do you think the reason they want you to develop the premium domains you buy is so that they can snatch them right back from you later? Think about it. Why else would they care what you do with your own domains? How does it feel to have big brother breathing down your neck?
At the same time, .xxx is already being ?monitored? by a 7 person board. According to Business Week, ?Lawley, who is otherwise uninvolved in the pornography industry, says he plans to regulate the (.xxx TLD) domain through a seven-person board, including seats reserved for porn industry players, privacy experts, and child-protection advocates.?
Webmasters, I don?t know about you, but that puts shivers down my spine. A board made up of a couple of rich business men and some child protection (and probably right wing Christian) advocates telling us what we can and can not do with our own websites?
My friends, .XXX is a disaster for the adult industry. Countries around the world are already banning the .xxx TLD (including India, aka 1.3 billion people). It puts all porn sites in the ghetto, thereby making it extremely easy for would be censors and governmental agencies to control, regulate, tax and do further damage to us. It makes it difficult for smaller webmasters, who don?t have the money to pay $100.00 per year, per site to some rich millionaires just to protect their brands and receive no value back.
And in the worst case scenario, .xxx could ultimately destroy the adult industry as we know it. Just imagine how it would affect your business if you were suddenly forced to move all of your websites to .xxx under heavy governmental regulation and control (with Billionaire Lawley sitting pretty at the top)? I can tell you all, if that day happens, it will be my last day of work in the adult industry.
It is for these reasons, and for my sincere hope that .xxx will die a slow death, that I will risk losing income myself and for my company by stating that zBUCKz will not allow Webmasters to promote our websites with .xxx websites. If you have a .xxx website, we do not want your .xxx traffic and will not pay for or honor any sales that we find that are sent from any website with .xxx. Any new affiliate applications sent from .xxx domains will be rejected.
I sincerely hope that you will all help me in the fight against .xxx, for the livelihoods of us all.
What you can do to help in the fight against .xxx:
1. Don?t pay for any domains with .xxx
2. Don?t send any traffic or do any link trades with any sites that use .xxx
3. Don?t join any affiliate programs that have paysites using .xxx
4. Do whatever you can to make it known that you do not support .xxx and will not give your money or traffic to any webmasters using .xxx sites.
May the force be with us!!
ATTN Webmasters 
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