.xxx

[doodlebug]

Are you going to bother ?

I personally think this extension could have value as I am thinking Google etc would rank these easy for their terms assuming the user as their setting on no filter.

Are you going to bother and anyone got any idea when there will be landrush, I usually can't afford sunrise.

Views please

 

[boxerdog]

i must admit i do like the look of these.
will they take off though

 

[doodlebug]

There has been plenty of extensions and mostly they don't do much but think of this for eg, if they rank good for adult terms then I can see Google placing these above .co.uk and .com such as porn.xxx above porn.co.uk and if porn.co.uk is worth 6 figures then what's porn.xxx going to be worth ?

A few months ago I decided to reg some adult doamins on .co.uk to sell on a dedicated site but now I have put it on the back burner because I am waiting for these .xxx

Don't forget though stuff like kitchens.xxx would get nowhere :lol:

Unless it's food porn ofcourse :lol:

Got to be worth a punt :mrgreen:

 

[Edwin]

The flipside is that every major ISP may set up a quickie "if .xxx extension, deny" filter and nobody will be able to access the domains. It's a fantastically easy way to be seen to be doing something about porn...

 

[doodlebug]

The flipside is that every major ISP may set up a quickie "if .xxx extension, deny" filter and nobody will be able to access the domains. It's a fantastically easy way to be seen to be doing something about porn...

Fair enough but I thought whole point of .xxx was for porn only sites and G etc could rank a site with .xxx for it's term quite easy, I am thinking that .xxx is for web users who are specifically looking for porn and therefore won't have a filter in use and the porn market is massive as you can imagine or know

 

[Edwin]

Fair enough but I thought whole point of .xxx was for porn only sites and G etc could rank a site with .xxx for it's term quite easy, I am thinking that .xxx is for web users who are specifically looking for porn and therefore won't have a filter in use and the porn market is massive as you can imagine or know

Why would Google want to rank porn sites high? There's a lot of negative PR to be gained from that, and (likely) not much income. They already can't run Adsense, for example.

 

[doodlebug]

Maybe I am missing something but I thought this was the whole point of .xxx, Google do rank porn sites so don't see why they wouldn't rank these ?

I take it you're not going to reg any, if I do then I will let you know what comes of them ?

Cheers

ps. I don't even know when landrush is yet :?

 

[Edwin]

.xxx was never instigated by Google or any of the other search engines. It's also worth noting that most articles I've seen suggest that the large adult site operators are AGAINST the extension.

It is being marketed by the company bidding to run the extension as an easy way for people to filter out porn. See
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/25/xxx-the-internets-pornography-domain/

Of course, their real intent is to cash in (to the tune of $30 million/year if you believe the figure in the above article) on those registering .xxx domains. It's no skin off their nose if it ends up getting filtered as an extension almost "by default" in due course or not - they'll have banked their $30 million and that's very nice business!

The parallel with .mobi, .asia, .pro and other failed extensions should I hope be obvious: extension launches, registry cashes in bigtime, extension flops

A rather sensationalist article in The Guardian referred to it as a "porn ghetto" but made the same point i.e. it will be super-easy to filter out all sites on .xxx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/27/pornography-glastonbury-australia

Oh, and yes, I won't be buying any...

 

[scooter]

The flipside is that every major ISP may set up a quickie "if .xxx extension, deny" filter and nobody will be able to access the domains. It's a fantastically easy way to be seen to be doing something about porn...

I agree with this. A simple line of code from your ISP and no matter what google does, you won't be able to access the site. Putting all eggs in one basket is tempting fate.

A lot of the successful sites business model is free content with ads. They rely on huge amounts of traffic. I think they will be getting zero from all muslim countries and most likely the chinese as they flick the switch. That is a very large amount of traffic.

This is even before you go down the UK road.
"BT publicly announce the blocking of all xxx domains to make surfing a safer place for your children".
It only takes one, (which there will be) and a lot of the rest will follow.

I can see the likes of AOL doing this quite easily.


I'm not buying any xxx. In all honesty, I even prefer my adult me.uk's over xxx. They rank and won't be filtered at the flick of a switch.

.

 

[Edwin]

There is of course a dark side to the launch of .xxx

When it goes live, certain "less enlightened" governments may REQUIRE all porn sites to host under .xxx, and that's another bandwagon that is tempting for interest groups of all sorts to leap onto. So it might negatively affect the value of "specifically adult" non-.xxx domain names.

 

[doodlebug]

Thanks for the links Edwin, I don't get the bottom part of the first article ' if porn takes off on the net ? ' it has as far as I am concerned :|

Some good points made about BT etc.

I am now humming and arring, ofcourse offline marketing, it wouldn't matter but would look good in an adult mag for eg, sexvideos.xxx

I'll try a handfull if I can get some pre-orders in.

Thanks for all comments and views

 

[scooter]

I just noticed the price. $60 = £40 :shock:


.

 

[doodlebug]

I just noticed the price. $60 = £40 :shock:


.

I'll put in for 10 and hope for 3 ?

I'll probably end up with none

 

[jimm]

Regarding the blocking, yes it can be done easily but it wont be by the rev. generating places like UK, USA and EU. There may well be an option to block it but the ISP can not take the decision to blanket ban the traffic from their networks.

But I still wouldn't bother with them