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Originally Posted by MindyBlingBucks
Will this do more harm than good?
".XXX has been approved.
A few days ago, ICANN -- the quasi-government corporation that oversees the internet’s naming and numbering system, approved the .XXX top level domain. .XXX will operate much like .COM does now -- meaning it will be a domain name people can type into their browsers to take them to a website -- but similar to the way .GOV is reserved for governmental organizations, .XXX will be reserved for pornographic or adult content websites.
Current expectations are that .XXX will be available for purchase and use by year’s end."
What Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons has to say on the matter. |
I like the fact that Bob Parsons thinks that registrars are going to shoot themselves in the foot if they try and push $60+ fees for registration. Here is what he said:
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Annual Cost of a .XXX domain name.
As of this writing, I do not know for sure what a .XXX domain name will cost. Early contacts we've made indicate that the price to registrars will be $60. Registrars will then mark it up from there, so it could very well cost the end user anywhere from $70 to well over $100, depending upon where it is registered. If that rumoured pricing turns out to be true, I personally think it's a dumb move by the registry, and that it will backfire in two ways. The first is that there will be far less adoption of .XXX (meaning many porn sites, especially budding ones, simply will purchase a .COM or .NET instead) and second, the registry will realize far less earnings that it otherwise would. I would hope the registry and ICANN both wake up here, and that the price to registrars is dropped to below $10.
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I like that, and hope he will help break the norm, and GoDaddy will have $8.95 XXX domains!