.xxx Trademark Protection, Per a Domaining Article
 

Per a posting today at Domaining.com:

http://domainincite.com/how-to-prote...nIncite.com%29

That's just them trying to shake down mainstream companies too.

A trademark protects you against WHAT you trademark it for. So the .xxx guys are thinking that they can "protect" mainstream companies that have no affiliation to porn from having porn guys take their domain and start porn sites with a .xxx extension.

Now why in the hell anybody would seriously want to waste time and money opening up something like "homedepot.xxx" or "sony.xxx" is beyond me. lol

Of course all of us in porn who already have our trademarks for our sites and have them trademarked to pertain to porn...don't have to worry at all. You are already protected from some squatter buying your .xxx name and trying to start a porn site on it.

Couple of emails will take care of that. Just like any other extension.

What a crock of crap....

I am sure this was all pre planned in the beginning of the scheme regarding .XXX.

And I am sure this won't be the last of the monetary rape that .XXX is going to cause.

FUCK .xxx

I could have sworn they said. Xxx was only available to porn sites, meaning Sony.xxx is not available.

What gives them the right to decide that? No one decides what a .com or .xxx is for or how it's to be used.

Honestly you answered your own question.

This is a scare tactic kind of like acacia suing everyone.

A sign of quiet desperation, maybe?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh what a crock of shit!

UK based IPRota Ltd why these always in UK :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I can actually see some wise guys registering domains like facebook.xxx :2 cents:

Yeah, that would be a "good" one I suppose...though how many people would ever type in that url is debatable.
Of course facebook doesn't need to buy that .xxx domain...they would definitely have grounds to stop that from happening because the .xxx extension would damage their trademarked brand.

Nobody needs to buy a .xxx domain. That's why that Joan Irvine woman is in Washington D.C. working as hard as she can to get some kind of legislation passed to FORCE all of us to do so. :(

To quote Robbie! "That's just them trying to shake down mainstream companies too."

Stuart Lawley is a Brit with lots of UK friends he wants to keep sweet? :)

FacebookOf.xxx here we come

The ICM registry is selling snake oil, plain and simple.

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

The above is coming from and experienced legend, so let's do it.

Thanks!

Bump for Colin's idea.