pussycash buys sex.xxx for 3 million?!
 

Apparently...

also 40 other domains thrown in the mix.

Overpriced.

How is it legal for someone to run a domain extension, and then just sell off what they consider to be the mostly-prized domains for the highest price?

Without fully understanding the entire laws and structure, that seems pretty unfair. Can you imagine the outcry if the same were true for .com? Pretty sure this never happened with .com, .net, or .org. Almost sounds monopolistic and the last case that was brought by this was settled out of court (think it was brought by Mindgeek/Manwin)?

Would be interesting to hear from an expert or see a lawyer write an article up in XBiz about how all of this works between ICann and the new people behind new domain extensions, if other non-adult domain extensions are doing this, etc.

seem those domains were managed / resold by http://www.barroninnovations.com/

madness A:pimp

I think that this is 100% made up nonsense for press. The new gTLDs are not getting those kinds of numbers in any other gTLD. It's not happening in .XXX either. It would be my personal opinion that this is press positioning and propaganda. No way I am believing this.

:2 cents:

@Biggy

All of the new registries are doing this with their premium stock. Some of them even let you register at the 9.95 and then tell you later its a premium domain for XX,XXX or whatever the high dollar amount.

i agree but its happening among all the 100's of new tlds that are currently being released. tens of thousands of domains per tld are being held back as 'premium' not only that but they are charging in some cases $5000 a year for a renewal. its a shake down. the registries are now domainers.

barron innovations is related to pussycash in some way. they are the buyers.

Barron owns PussyCash, IMLive and WebCamWiz.

Congrats to the winners on a (in total) $5 million dollar deal :thumbsup

I know haters gonna hate, but those haters are not as successful (or as smart) as Barron or JT et al :2 cents:

You would be incorrect. Welcome to 2014 and the future beyond.

AND, I expect flagship site Sex.xxx to not only redefine the industry, but to be FAR more successful than Sex.com

:thumbsup:thumbsup

says the VP of ICM...

it also appears barron innovations has some kind of deal with ICM to promote their premium domains which makes this deal seem all the more shady.

The deal also includes more than 40 “premium” generic keyword domains, including Cam.xxx, Phone.xxx and Black.xxx, as well as Web.xxx, Market.xxx, Mate.xxx and Education.xxx

Its madness $3m unbelievable

Yeah, with all the new extensions that followed, they made sure that they will not repeat the same mistake like with .com, .net and .org but, anyway, any other extension which comes, will always feed the .com :pimp

:2 cents: :thumbsup

now I know where my pussycash chargeback money goes

Was SEX.COM ever successful? If so, I missed it. I've only seen one cluster fuck after another with that domain.

sex.com is worth that amount.
sex.xxx... not so sure

this seems more realistic http://domainindex.com/domains/sex.xxx

Stephen is vp of icm?

Icm is banking on country regulations to mandate adult content be behind an adult tld. Government intervention will happen more and more... will be interesting to see what happens. Lets just hope icm is left holding their dicks.

overpriced....

big money in the game

Has to be nice to know people high-up at ICM

they will make coin :2 cents: go check the rank of .xxx sites

Seems same people:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A...+972.543275089

Can put custom imlive/pussycash platform over sex.xxx, phone.xxx, black.xxx, shop.xxx, mate.xxx, horny.xxx, kinky.xxx .... but maybe they'll do different things there if $5 million (a lot) invested. and they own several .com ones including imlive brand already. Ifriends simply launched on ifriends.xxx and that's it. Let's see.

Congrats to the winners and if you want to invest into new extensions, the interNEXT domain auction has premium .webcam .club and other new extensions listed at http://huntingmoon.com/gfy

phone.xxx
-> ex. phonemates.com, so probably a cam wl
mate.xxx (dating is also possible)



black.xxx
-> a niche cam wl will pretty much work
kinky.xxx



sex.xxx -> well this is the tricky part, i think this domain deserves some special attention and a high traffic website will be suitable which can push traffic to the rest.

Cohen was the only one to make money with that domain aside from Gary once he got it back and sold it

its been well abused:2 cents:

As of right now, Sex.xxx is not worth anything even close to $3M. However, that doesn't mean that some day, the value of Sex.xxx can't appreciate, or even skyrocket in a very short period of time. The site could be developed into a huge tube site and then the domain could be sold for more than $3M based on revenues alone, which of course is extrinsic value.

As for intrinsic value, I believe in order for .xxx domains to be valuable, they have to be accepted by the adult community. So far, they have not been accepted by adult webmasters, nor the adult community. Will that change some day? It's possible. Personally, I prefer .com's and have no intentions of ever using a .xxx. To me, they are a fad. ICANN is trying to evolve the world wide web into one where every simple noun can be registered and used as a TLD extension. That spreads the user base for any one TLD very thin, hence not much value is created. It also creates a very messy naming system that in my opinion will confuse and frustrate the hell out of surfers and users.

"So far, they have not been accepted by adult webmasters, nor the adult community. Will that change some day? It's possible. "

You would be very surprised to see what is happening behind the scenes :2 cents:

Not worth 3M.

Paying $3M now may seem crazy, but $3M for that .XXX package will probably look like a bargain in a couple of years if even half the stuff currently in development comes to fruition. You don't spend that kind of money on a wim. :)

Why not tell us?

I would like to know what is going on behind the scenes. But you really need to define... "which scenes"... because it does make a difference.

I know... with 100% certainty... ICM is trying to get all adult sites onto an adult TLD. I also know that government crack down is inevitable. I also know that in an ideal ICM world... anyone owning a dot com adult site would be mandated to purchase a dot xxx.

Am I delusional? Or is this just another money grab?

I don't think you're being delusional, at all. ICM would, obviously, love all Adult sites to be moved onto the .XXX TLD (they would of liked it even more if that had happened before they were forced them to lower the prices!). I think if all the .COM TLD of worth are taken, the smart thing to do would be to transform the .XXX TLD into something new, something that can shift the .COM Adult monopoly back in favour of Owners/Producers/Affiliates/etc. And from what I know of what projects currently in development that will be using the .XXX TLD (not development on the TLD itself!) they could very well be outrageously successful. There are a lot of smart people, and people with the money needed to bring these things to life, working on projects that sound very, very cool indeed. :)

Don't fall for the scam:2 cents:

:1orglaugh

meanwhile .Com doesn't need to be labeled as "Premium" cause it's been branded as the default extension for many years with many dollars. No way I would invest in an alternate extension without owning the .Com as well.

most people are stupid... the ones that are not stupid play stupid... it is a game of stupid ness