.XXX Domains: The Not So Hot Numbers...

[tonyparra]

All major registrars are offering big discounts on dotxxx registrations. It is an obvious sign dotxxx has failed.

Its still early for them. But they really shot themselves in the foot by dogging the people who actually build the adult internet. They had some interesting ideas but their execution was terrible, they business model was pure extortion, then when the qoing got tough they withdrew from the biggest adult board. They should have only sold the domains to adult webmasters who could prove they were actually had revenue generating website first , but at reasonable cost, then opened it to the general public at the high price. It might have had more steam by now cus then im sure there would be some big tgps or tubes with the extension by now.

[brentbacardi]

Fuck .XXX!

[AdultKing]

I'm looking forward for the end of year numbers.

[V_RocKs]

.xxx is for people with too much money in their pockets.

[Paul Markham]

they took in 25 mill in the last quarter ?

Go do the maths on his figures. They don't add up.

Still good to see they want to launch more of these scamming domains. There's one born every day.

[AdultKing]

.pro is a more popular domain than .xxx and I can't remember ever seeing a .pro domain.

[2intense]

fuck .xxx

[Emil]

This is hot:



.XXX is not.

[Freaky_Akula]

Prior to the launch, Stuart Lawley claimed that ICMR would be bringing in around $200 million a year though dotxxx. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...6038373596.htm

[Paul Markham]

fuck .xxx

It looks like they're going to get fucked big time when renewals don't happen. Some domain sellers are going to get fucked.

[Naughty-Pages]

Wait a couple of months until all those wannabe domainers find out they can't afford to renew those crappy .xxx domains no one is interested in.

Agreed... I can't believe some of these people that scooped up a dozen or two names thinking they would be able to resell them.. lol

it actually makes me feel bad for them...

I especially liked this part of the article:

Out of all those registrations 132,859 are adult-oriented and a whopping 82,976 are non-adult defensive registrations, domains of celebrities and sensitive uses, and those ICM Registry reserved for future uses and sales under the .XXX Premium Names Program and the .XXX Adult Performer Program.

That means in total there really are only 49,883.. but of those: most were probably done by domainers.. lol

as can be seen by this:

Actual number of “built out sites” that they are aware of and can acknolwedge is 27,555 at this point

which will probably be 1/2 that number come renewal time.

[JFK]

Prior to the launch, Stuart Lawley claimed that ICMR would be bringing in around $200 million a year though dotxxx. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...6038373596.htm

this is interesting, didnt know where all the funding came from

"The Internet has made Stuart Lawley a wealthy man. In 1999 he got rich by taking a British Internet service provider public. The London Sunday Times has named him one of the 1,000 richest people in Britain."

[Why]

can we say FAIL?

[NETbilling]

Terrible numbers

[FetishWeb]

Actual number of “built out sites” that they are aware of and can acknolwedge is 27,555 at this point

Wait a minute - do people actually believe Lawley's figure of 25,000 "built out" .xxx sites?

I'd be surprised if there's even 250 outside of place holders, forsale pages and weird junk.

61 .xxx sites in the 1 million on alexa? thats pretty damning.