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ICM Registry applying for.sex,.porn .adult domains

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The Florida company that brought the “.xxx” domain to the Internet has applied for three more adult-themed domains.

Palm Beach Gardens-based ICM Registry says it’s applying for “.sex,” ”.porn” and “.adult” domains.

ICM launched its “.xxx” domain in December 2011 and says it now has 215,000 sites registered in it.

The oversight agency for Internet addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been accepting applications for new extensions. The deadline is Thursday.

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Congress Has a Porn Problem- Rick Perry Has A Solution: “Bisexual Barebacking Vol. 1”

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Congress Has a Porn Problem- Rick Perry Has A Solution: “Bisexual Barebacking Vol. 1”

Photo: Electing Hypocrisy- Florida Senator Mike Bennett, looking at pictures of topless women while on the Senate floor, using his state-issued computer, while a colleague is arguing that the law currently being debated is ‘disrespectful towards women’. Meanwhile The work computer of one regional supervisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed more than 1,800 attempts to look up pornography in a 17-day span: “It was kind of distraction per se,” he later told investigators. LadyJuice.com was their preoccupation while Bernie Madoff stole $60 million..

Today one Congressman is advocating a ban .XXX registrations of an already taken domain without the owner of an existing a site on another extension signing off. I’m all for that.

But is that the biggest problem Congress has with Porn? They don’t seem to have had a problem with the SEC staff tuned in to porn while tuning out what we, taxpayers, are expecting them to be doing 9-5 like preventing people like Bernie Madoff from ripping off investors money, some of which he invested in producing and distributing the very same porn his watchdogs were watching. It’s difficult to investigate wrong-doing by rip-off and con artists like Bernie Madoff while at the SEC when surfing 1,800 porn sites, so it’s no wonder Madoff was able to steal as much and for as long as he did.
They don’t seem to have a problem with investing money which is laundered to keep their names away into derivatives and other vehicles that support porn. They don’t seem to have a problem with Fortune 500 secret investments in porn such as GE who advised the President on job creation while sending theirs to China and paying ZERO taxes on $60 billion net profit.
Congressmen seem to have no problem watching porn. Remember Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer and Mike Bennett pictured above. Think they are the only ones.I’d say 50% of government workers are tuned into porn on the job at any hour of the day. Of course those actually in Congress, if not tuned into porn are doing insider day trading on their laptops while tuned out to the people’s business.

But that doesn’t trump all- The biggest problem Congress has with pornography is HYPOCRISY. And that starts with the by day morality role models morphing into the characters they so despise. For Newt Gingrich was voted out of Congress for Ethic’s violations. He spent a good part of his term tying up the nations resources impeaching Clinton for the same behavior he was doing. If he has already told us that a man who has an affair is not fit to be President, then he should be eliminating from running by his own rules.

Then there is Rick Perry who recently earned favor of Iowa Straw Poll voters skyrocketing in the polls with his campaign promise to end “Obama’s War on Religion.” Really?

I suppose that’s the sinful lost moral compass of “progressives” who favor “Teens Never Say No”, “Teens with T*ts”? No? Bisexual Barebacking Vol. 1” or “Big Tit Brotha Lovers 6”?

Kinda makes you all warm and family values-ish. Except Perry bankrolled those films and may more.

Rick Perry, God’s Chosen to pray Texas into prosperity, invested as a private citizen in Movie Gallery corporation to the tune of between 5-10k according to his 1995 personal financial reports. Movie Gallery was, at that time, the largest distributor of porn in America, and able to sell and rent regular videos for much cheaper than the competition due to their heady porn profit. The ultra conservative American Family Association (AFA), a self-described “Christian organization promoting the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on TV and other media” known for “(i)nitiating, encouraging Christian Activism,” but also now an officially designated hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, begged the government to investigate Movie Gallery.

Perry teamed up with the AFA for his recent prayer day rally, “The Response, a Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis.” Just this March, we saw then Presidential candidacy hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee courting the AFA by appearing on Bryan Fisher’s radio show. So it’s puzzling that Perry invested his money in something he must have been aware violated the very core of his alleged pro-life, pro-family, pro-conservative values. However, Perry put his holdings into a blind trust in 1998, and hence, no one knows if he is still profiting off of pornography. Perhaps the AFA doesn’t care if their Presidential pick is profiting off of pornography so allegedly obscene that they demanded the DoJ investigate.

Blind Trust hah- kind of like what uninformed voters do to allow such hypocrisy to trust our money to people who if they can lie like this- what else can they do with power and trillion dollar budgets?

It’s time to roll back the privacy shield and expose (no own intended) these dirty (no pun intended) bastards. And what better time then on Christmas Day. You won’t want to miss our feature story that day. I wanted to register Congress.XXX and make that the story title- but it was TAKEN.

And as the people who put these bozos in power, taken is the best word to describe what they’ve done to us.

But .XXX knows who their market is. They advertise on morality police chief Andre Breitbart’s “BigGovernment.com” read by 80% of Congress every day. Today cut and pasting NY Times copy which when I follow the same model on my blog, gets me flamed for unoriginal useless content. Let the men buy porn. That’s what men do. Just resign so the word congress isn’t part of your title.

Stay tuned.

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Was .xxx’s launch disappointing?

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The weekend box office numbers are in, and .xxx didn’t put as many bums on seats as might have been expected.

ICM Registry sold 55,367 new .xxx domain name names in its first 24 hours of general availability, giving it a total of almost 159,351 registrations, according to the company.

That’s pretty good going for a TLD which, despite the spin in ICM’s recent TV commercials, is intended for a limited customer base, and which is selling for $80 to $100 a year.

Given its $60 registry fee, ICM will have taken over $3.3 million in revenue yesterday, over $550,000 of which will be given to its sponsoring organization, IFFOR.

However, the 159,351 total includes non-resolving domain names, ICM has confirmed.

Due to the unique trademark protection mechanisms put in place for non-porn companies, it’s possible to pay for a .xxx domainnames that will only ever resolve to a standard registry placeholder.

ICM has previously said that it took almost 80,000 sunrise applications, and that the landrush phase put its total “comfortably over 100,000″.

It did not, however, break out the mix of Sunrise A (resolving) and Sunrise B (non-resolving) domain name.

That’s an important distinction, both for ICM’s ongoing revenue and for gauging demand for .xxx among registrants.

Each Sunrise B domain names gave ICM a $161 windfall but, unlike every other TLD launched to date, has the sale had no recurring revenue component.

I think it’s possible that 50,000 to 60,000 sunrise names were non-resolvers, which would give .xxx a total of roughly 100,000 active domain under management after one day of GA.

(My assumptions are that all 80,000 sunrise applications were unique and approved, and that roughly two thirds were for Sunrise B non-resolving domain name).

Assuming all the active domainname are renewed, it’s a $6 million a year business (or $5 million, if you exclude the mandatory IFFOR donation) for ICM already.

The .xxx zone is already bigger than .travel, .pro, .jobs, .aero, .coop, .museum and .cat. It will likely be bigger than .name, .tel and .asia by the end of the month.

So why suggest that it’s a disappointing result?

Pre-reservations

First, for a few years ICM was accepting no-cost .xxx “pre-reservations” through its web site, while its gTLD application was in ICANN limbo.

It racked up over 900,000 such reservations for roughly 650,000 unique .xxx domain names before shutting the offer down in July this year.

One might expect that most people interested enough in .xxx to pre-register a domainnames months or years in advance might also be interested in grabbing that domain during landrush, sunrise or at the moment of GA. That apparently didn’t happen.

.CO

Let’s also compare .xxx to the launch of .co by .CO Internet last year.

While .CO did not have anything like the long-term media exposure as .xxx, it did of course have the advantage of offering a completely generic string priced at a third of .xxx.

Within its first 24 hours of general availability, .CO said that it had 233,000 domains under management, about 39,000 of which were landrush or sunrise registrations.

Even at the cheaper registry fee (about $20 a year) .CO still made more money in day one than ICM (although ICM wins hands-down in terms of premium domain sales).

.CO, incidentally, also only had 10 accredited registrars at launch (not counting resellers) compared to ICM’s over 70.

Go Daddy

Go Daddy is responsible for roughly half of all new .com registrations, with similar numbers in other TLDs including .co, but it does not appear to be promoting .xxx very heavily.

For the last few days, its homepage has contained only one small below-the-fold reference to .xxx domainname. Its TLD drop-down menu has .xxx in tenth place, between .biz and .ca.

Conversely, ICM has been promoting Go Daddy (and DomainMonster) more heavily in its own marketing – notably on gavin.xxx, the site “owned” by its TV commercial character.

Expectations

So is .xxx on track to meet expectations at this early stage?

ICM CEO Stuart Lawley has previously predicted 300,000 to 500,000 registrations in the first few months, and that’s still an achievable goal given its day-one performance.

.CO Internet, for example, more than doubled its 233,000 first-day take within two months of going into general availability.

The new Russian ccTLD .рф registered 200,000 domain names in its first six hours when it launched in November 2010, and hit 800,000 by April this year.

While .xxx clearly hasn’t yet smashed estimates in the same way as its sunrise did, I think early indications are that it’s looking pretty healthy.

Related posts:

  1. ICM reveals .xxx launch dates, extends sunrise
  2. The .CO launch, by the numbers
  3. .SO launch date is November 1

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The University of Texas is buying up a bunch of potential porn websites.

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UT buys .xxx domain names to prevent adult parodies triple x Texassports.xxx, texasboxoffice.xxx, hookemhorns.xxx and the universityoftexas.xxx

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Ammar Kubba: Newest Spokesman for .XXX Domain names Registry

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After seeing the perfectly manicured adult film star-esque mustache currently being rocked by Ammar Kubba in support of Movember, the ICM Registry has hired Kubba to be its newest .XXX domain name spokesman / spokesmodel.

Kubba will be working alongside Ron Jeremy, as the two primary male .XXX spokesmen. Said Kubba, “I take my work very seriously, much like my mustache. It’s an honor to team up with Ron Jeremy, someone whom I have admired for a very, very long time.” Kubba continued to tell a story about the first time he learned about Ron Jeremy, but unfortunately, I can’t publish it on this blog.

Charitably, all earnings from Kubba’s spokesman position will be donated to the Movember foundation, which is helping to “raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.” To date, Kubba has helped to raise over $2,300 for the organization. To donate to this great cause, visit http://mobro.co/Kubba

Ironically, the first event Kubba and Jeremy will be appearing at is a prostate cancer screening event sponsored by .XXX. (Kubba and Jeremy will not be doing the screenings).

Important Disclaimers: No animals were harmed by Ammar Kubba in creating the mustache. Neither Ammar Kubba nor the ICM Registry approved the contents of this article. Ron Jeremy may or may not be a spokesman for .XXX. The entirety of this article was fabricated, except for the mustache part.

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