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    First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong place! I looked over the categories and this seemed the most fitting place. I meant to post this yesterday since I know so many ladies have their own naughty sites involved with their camming persona.

    .XXX domain extensions went live for registration yesterday. Cheapest I've seen so far is $78.88 at NameCheap (versus GoDaddy's $100, I'd say that's a damn good deal). But anywho, if you own an adult website, it's being encouraged to switch over to this extension, whether for promotion or even for branding purposes.

    The .XXX extension is meant to safe-guard children from wandering into inappropriate sites, as well as aide in the removal of child pornography. It'll probably take a few years for it all to take full effect, but I personally think it's brilliant.

    You do have to verify you work in the industry, however. ICM emails you with a link to register for the Sponsored Community. Which is basically a group meant to monitor and give news to the industry users. There's also a means to protect your identity, from what I have understood. It's simple, easy and free to do.

    .XXX domain owners actually get a few perks for registering. One of which is a daily scan by ICM to see if there's anything harmful involved in the site. No other domain extension gets this treatment. All .XXX sites will also have MetaCert electronic Family Safety label for those who want to adjust their browser settings and avoid adult-themed sites. It's fairly user-friendly, IMO.

    So yeah, hopefully some of you ladies will find this useful.

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    It seems to me that a lot of the big players in porn are pretty against the idea of .xxx domain names. From what I've read, their criticism seems just.

    The porn industry is worried that the new domain will lead to over regulation and marginalization. Dedicated space online is going to result in an online porn ghetto, with adult sites filtered out more efficiently, which will lead to a loss of traffic and therefore revenue as well.
    "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." ~ Emma Goldman

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    yeah ill pass on that... most affiliate programs have already written off those domains and will not allow their material to be on a .xxx or on a site that promotes .xxx sites.. and countries an other places already block certain porn/porn sites.. this domain just give a ready button to block all at once. censorship is a hell of a drug
    still here.... just in another chapter..

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    Their commercials are insulting and stupid.

    They are trying to blackmail the industry into signing up and spend alot of money to protect their brands & names already established & copyrighted.

    They have been attempting this adult industry take over for 8 years, yet no one is buying. Now they are here trolling trying to get us to buy in.

    Cant believe that Clips4Sale spent $700,000 with them. Outrageous to me that a top company would fall for their crap.

    When is the owner of this endeavor going to get a clue, their is very little money in adult & we are not falling for his BS.

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    I think it's bullshit and I will not support it. Parents need to be responsible for keeping their kids off of porn websites, not me. I am a parent myself and it's my duty to keep my sons from looking at porn, not BangBros or whomever else.

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    I'm so glad the top ladies here came in and brought the truth. I had no clue what so ever but after reading these great responses, it's nice to see how many ladies know their stuff. Sorry guy looks like the pussy is out the bag.

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    There seems to be some misunderstanding going on in this thread.

    To start with, I am actually a camgirl, I'm on SM and MFC under the same name. I really was only posting as an informative piece. Also, if you check the link (hover over it with your mouse), there is no promotional code there or anything. It's just the site that sells the domains, lol. I buy from there because they're cheapest. Simple-as.

    Secondly, there's some misconception about the legislation situation that came out with .XXX in September. ICANN was attempted to be sued by Digital Playgrounds and Manwin (owner of Playboy, Brazzers, YouPorn, etc) for monopoly reasons, not because ICANN was imposing porn regulations. ICANN has no ability to regulate internet content. That's for the courts to handle. Which real pornographers know, because they deal with it anyway through 2257 and all the other bullcrap the United States Feds try to put them through.

    I think it's ironic that those specific people are suing, tbh, but that's just me. Anti-monopoly, when they run the biggest porn sites on the net, lol.

    In reality, it's silly for people to get in a tizzy about the extension, when pornographers have to buy .NET, .ORG, etc. to keep their brand anyway. .XXX is an easy internet filter for sites. They don't lose traffic, since people surfing for porn will find porn under .XXX. It's meant for parental filtering.

    This is coming from a former pornographer and (now) hobbyist pornographic web-designer. I understand if people are suspicious because I'm not verified. The reason for that is because I don't have 35 posts yet, which was part of the rules for getting verified to begin with. If you don't believe I am a camgirl, you can message my SM account (preferrably, since I don't use MFC anymore) and you will get a reply back from me, lol.

    But yes, this wasn't posted to ruffle feathers. Only posted because I do think it is a good idea and I, personally, will support it in my porn endeavors.

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    Won't putting a site on xxx count out the majority of your customers?

    Any blocking software is not going to let it through - offices, colleges, even a lot of home computers if shared. I'm not planning to buy one.


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    Wow, the accusations you make.

    They did meet with my business partner. They wanted $100,000 for him to register his main site with them. How is this cheaper then a dot com with go daddy? That is extortion.

    You also forgot to mention how Bang Bros & Reality kings refused to do business with them also.

    ONCE again their commercial say we are sheep fuckers, thugs who need to be slapped & old angry ladies who scream. Or how about the old lady with no undies living in a shack. So very condescending & almost a hatred for those of us in the adult industry.

    Since one can purchase a dot com dot org or what ever cheaper than an xxx, why bother?

    If your going to back them then be prepared to defend them. So as a cam girl you need and dot xxx to do what? You have a solo pay site? Because I do & have for over 6 years.

    Most of the girls who post here are cam girls, NOT website owners. Don't get the point of coming here to get them to buy an dot xxx. Other than trolling for sales.

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    If xxx was such a good idea & would lead to better sales then the industry would have jumped on it years ago.

    They would not have to crank out commercials that insult us & put in on national tv if it was such a good idea. All that advertising cost money. Money that needs to be made back at the owner of sites backs.

    Put us all in a corner so we can be moderated by a company we did not agree to be our guardian. A company that says it will prevent child pornography when no one legit in the adult industry has been busted in a child pornography sting.

    Their whole selling point is buy your domain before we let someone else buy it up and exploit your branding. Blackmail & extortion just doesn't go over well with people you want to do business with. And if that is how they approach the business now, I can't imagine the money they would want once your established on their stuff & they see the money you are making.

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    Accusations? The only accusations being made are yours of my supposed "trolling for sales" over a domain extension. A bit silly if you ask me.

    I get it, you don't know me, so you don't know what my intentions are. That's cool. Regardless, yes, I do intend on having a solo cam site within the coming year. Your choice to not support them is entirely your own. I have my own to make.

    I am also entirely aware the majority of these girls do not have sites, but I also know some of them do and are not in the danger of having their names taken/brand exploited. The possibility of having to pay $100k to reserve a name does not apply to them. It's a simple $80/yr fee.

    Again, getting into a tizzy over it is silly. It's a domain extension. No one cared beforehand that ICANN runs/owns EVERY domain extension in the world until this silliness. All domain names do is mask the IP of the actual server your site is placed on. ICANN will -always- have control over that. That's what the uninformed masses don't normally know.

    The porn industry has always been exploited for money, because it's a multi-billion (nearly trillion) dollar industry. Having been in the industry so long, I have no doubts that you know it's a dog-eat-dog world.
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    You came in here sayiing we better get our dot xxx now before someone else gets it.

    That is a threat. That is the same line the dot xxx company is doing to the whole industry. Buy your xxx or else crap.

    That is NOT the way to start off a business by threatening your potential clients. Nor calling them sheep fuckers, thugs who need to be slapped, grannies who live in shacks a way to endear themselves to any potential customer.

    NO one needs a dot xxx .

    Go Daddy for a dot com just cost me $20 a year for a new domain NOT $80.

    Porn made the web. Porn helped more new technology get started & become money makers for many non-porn companies.

    Getting a dot xxx is just another way to hide us away. 80% of business use sex to sell, but how shameful that we use sex to sell sex.

    A dot com says I am a business-Period. Why should I be ashamed & get an xxx to prove a point that I dont peddle child pornography when I completely comply with the 2257 laws. Which is one of their selling points.

    Saw xxx's blackmail of saying over 2500 models names were for sale this week to buy yours before someone else does. NO SALE!

    Coming here to tell us to better buy our names now is just another ploy in my mind.


    Why would they ask an established site of 6 years to pay $100,000 for their domain if that wasn't extortion?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sam38g View Post
    NO one needs a dot xxx ....

    ....Porn made the web. Porn helped more new technology get started & become money makers for many non-porn companies....

    ^^^^ +1

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    This is going to be my last post in this topic. Sorry, I get wordy real fast.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sam38g View Post
    You came in here sayiing we better get our dot xxx now before someone else gets it.

    That is a threat. That is the same line the dot xxx company is doing to the whole industry. Buy your xxx or else crap.
    What are you talking about? No, seriously. Just about EVERYONE who deals with websites knows domain names are first come, first serve. It's that way with .COM, .NET, .ORG, .WHATEVERELSEYOUWANT. Why would .XXX be any different? Not once did I "threaten" anyone with anything. Nor did I say anything remotely close to "get your name before someone else does!" My OP was only discussing the .XXX extension, and what they give you for buying one. It was my attempt at sharing information. If that were my intention, why would I wait a day later to post it? I'd be up at the crack of dawn going "OMFG GURLZ, GET THIS NOWWWW." Really, my mind is boggled at your wording and comprehension of my posts. Like seriously, holy cow, lol.

    FYI, no one needs a .COM either. Domains are superfluous in their entirety. Like I said before, their only purpose is to mask the IP/location of your server and site files. They were created for shorthand. Period.

    Whether you like it or not, a lot of sites will be moving onto getting .XXX. Clips4Sales is a classic example. The world will keep right on spinnin' while it does. I get it, you have a vendetta over how buy.xxx marketed this whole campaign. That has nothing to do with me, nor the buying of a domain under a site that does not advertise for it.

    Frankly, I can't help but laugh at your reception of my posts. I'm somehow "selling" you domain names, but I'm actually coming back to respond with 'fine don't buy it, I will, either way'. I don't know of any salesman to come back and do that, especially if they were here just to troll a forum for only sales purposes. <Sarcasm> Because Lord knows cam girls are where the money is at with websites!!! Especially when I'm pretty much unknown to everyone here and cam girls deal with assholes all day, so are naturally suspicious!!! </Sarcasm> Completely entitled to it, btw, ladies. Not saying you can't be suspicious. You don't know me, you don't know what I stand for. I am aware of this fact and have said it before.

    I'm sorry if I sound like a complete bitch. Really, I am. That's not fake sincerity. I'm not one, though (entirely anyway ), and that's what grinds my gears. I'm being told what I'm doing when I've said it repeatedly, I'm just a cam girl. There's no scheming involved. However reading those two lines, specifically as the BEGINNING of your post addressed to me, I just can't sit idly by and let such ridiculous comments go without a ridiculous response.

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    P.S. as a food for thought moment, you do realize that special domain extensions are normally not the $10-20 a year most places tote over, right? Custom extensions are more expensive. .CO.UK, .TV, .NU, etc etc. .XXX ain't exactly meant for everyone and their dog.

    Another added piece of information, if you want a common keyworded name that had a previous owner, domain companies (i.e. GoDaddy) will force you to pay thousands of dollars to register them, even if no one owns them. Why? Because they're common keyworded names. That's how domains work. That's how they make big business. They will seize the domain, and charge out the ass for it. $10-20 per domain a year is chump change, and they know it. So yeah, you're gonna get milked for money. Domains do that.

    And with that, I'm done. Take it or leave it! My post was only meant to inform people of the available extension. No diabolical plan to take over the world and all who inhabit it. Promise, promise.

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    I got this update from ynot today:

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    YNOT – Cybersquatters apparently didn’t get the memo listing the reasons why the new dot-xxx adults-only domain space would be a bad investment for them. Here, for their benefit, are a few:

    1) Unlike in the early days of the web, the online adult entertainment industry no longer issues licenses to print money.

    2) Adult brand owners who were unwilling to spend $300 or so per domain to snap up the corresponding dot-xxx names during the Sunrise and Landrush early registration periods are even less likely to drop thousands of dollars to claim those domains from people who are opportunistic at best and cyber-criminals at worst.

    3) ICM Registry, which operates the dot-xxx domain space under contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, evidently intends to keep its promise not to allow cybersquatting within its realm.

    more here...

    http://www.ynot.com/content/117440-i...squatters.html


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    Quote Originally Posted by FunsizeNerd View Post
    I think it's ironic that those specific people are suing, tbh, but that's just me. Anti-monopoly, when they run the biggest porn sites on the net, lol.
    Nothing wrong with being the best at something. That doesn't make you a monopoly. I'd stand behind Manwin long before I stand behind a company that outright lies to people, uses alts to protect their own good name and whose general counsel used to work for Webpower/iFriends, a company that I worked at for 10 years but left over a financial dispute AND who have 424 (and counting) complaints filed against them - on this one site alone (warning:" this may be an eye-opener for some):


    There are 2 people on the IFFOR (who happen to be the policy-makers for ICM Registry, for XXX domains) that have a connection to iFriends. Their current general counself is Sheri Falco (used to work for iFriends, now general counsel for ICM). Andrew Kayton (currently lead counsel for iFriends - also sits on the IFFOR, making policies for ICM and US all with our little dot XXXs! - Busy man huh?).

    Who would I trust? These lawyers? Fuck no! Take a good look at the TOS! Take a good look at the Registry/Registrant Agreement. It all applies to us, currently because according to THIS, (myself as an example, but feel free to search your own name and add the dot xxx to it).
    Granted, I never purchased it, so it has top be owned by ICM ... but ... how do I know, I mean, what assurance do I have that this will indeed be turned over to me, AFTER I sign and pay for my dot xxx? Why is it under this "escrow" account? That's scary.


    Also, reading their TOS, it can be applied to the Registry/Registrant Agreement at any time, even if they verbally tell you "don't worry, it only applies to ICM -owned sites."! According to Whois (the link I posted right above this paragraph), ICM does own my site. Therefore, it DOES apply to me. Unless this changes after I buy it and you think, after all this bullshit you've been feeding people, I'm going to just take your word? No fucking way! As far as I'm concerned, the way it stands right now, ICM owns my .xxx and after I buy it, they will own not only IT but all the content within to do with whatever their over-exploding profitline desires!

    I'm no conspiracy theorist. These are the FACTS. Oh and I trust absolutely NOONE!

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    ICM tweeted to me on friday, that they made a change to the TOS, (just to clarify things because I got pissed and spoke out against it and picked them apart for their wording of it).

    If you go to that page, there's a new line inserted after the first paragraph which reads:

    "In the interest of clarity, this TOS does not apply to any content or Personal Information you post on .XXX sites that are not owned by ICM. ICM does not obtain any rights to your content or Personal Information if you post content or provide your Personal Information on a .XXX site that is not owned by ICM."

    Well, my site is currently owned by them! Where does it say my site will be owned by me and me only, after I purchase it? Nowhere!? Why should I believe it will not be part of a Performer's Program or Escrow Account? Owning a dot xxx is NOT like your dot com. You bought your dot com through a registrar, ICM is a *registry* NOT registrar! Huge difference.

    Am I supposed to sign something I am completely unaware what it entails? Are they insane? Not only that but a document that states changes can be made at any time, without notice to me. Um, so I'm supposed to sit there reading these all day long, refreshing constantly to see if any changes have been made? Also, the TOS can attach itself to the Registry/Registrant Agreement any time, too? Let's see ... the TOS says they can do what they want with our content. BUT according to ICM, it doesn't apply to us performers and our dot XXXs, only to ICM-owned sites. In one month's time, after we all rush to buy our little dot XXX sites, ICM can decide to attach that TOS and voila - we're bound by an agreement that says they do, in fact own our content. The BIG money is in our collective content, NOT the registration fees. I'm completely outraged about this. I own my own dot com and would like my own dot xxx but this is bullshit.

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    funsizedNerd i know who you are on SM and MFC.....so i know your a camgirl ....BUT your wrong as shit !!! seriously....they are on some seriously foul shit fuck ICM ...$100 per year for a site name???? fuck that shit seriously....and what the fuck are they doing pricing sites at 100K for ....???? think about it... and YES these girls are right Filtering would KILL our income
    thing Dumb dumb ....How many guys say ...." Im at work in my office"...."I'm in my dorm room"
    Plenty of these guys are in some very strange places.... libraries, schools,work,church,parents house,(all of these places would block .XXX on and on.....think about how many guys have wives.....what if SHE bought a wireless router and locked out .XXX sites......think.....smh

    what if SHE had the internet provider to block all.XXX sites..............Hello?
    I feel like im in the French Revolution!!!!!! "Sooooo Many heads sooooo little time!!"


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