Domain Sales Explode With a $3 Million Sale & Four 6-Figure Sales Logged in Past Two Weeks

[Ron Jackson]

The latest domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Americans expect to see fireworks on July 4th but they arrived more than a month early in the domain aftermarket with the top five sales alone totaling more than $4 million over the past two weeks. The boom has actually been going on all year with sales in 1Q-2014 soraing 47% over the same quarter a year ago.

This week’s sales were led by a $3 million blockbuster that is also the biggest non .com gTLD sale of the year. A ccTLD also landed in the top five after changing hands for $136,000. Even so, the .coms dominated sweeping 35 of the 41 entries on our expanded leader board (this week’s report covers the past two week’s worth of sales because there was no column last week while I was away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Las Vegas). You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140611.htm

 

[Jasonn]

Go read earlier posts and figure it out "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see whats going on". As i said above, yes minors could type .xxx but it will be filtered easier, and when they type certain common terms they don't get adult sites popping up. I am not an internet techno wizard so i have no idea how to gather these types of stats.

The current internet is like the wild west, in time it will become more civilized.

a parent or whoever that doesn't filter content won't be filtering tlds either, so whats the point?

 

[The New Guy]

a parent or whoever that doesn't filter content won't be filtering tlds either, so whats the point?

It makes some people feel good to suggest a 'solution'?

Most porn sites don't use .xxx for the same reason most real businesses don't use .co or .notcom - the public's mind in general is that .com = real business. And since most porn sites exist to make money, they want to be where the money is - .com.

 

[McDuke]

Perhaps, as an admitted less than techno-wizard, you are ill-qualified to determine the best way to filter data in the manner you would want?

.adult, .sex, .porn etc were applied for to protect the .xxx extension. .xxx is the international brand for adult entertainment and is the best option for the consumer.

its not that companies intentionally try to lose money but rather are not upset if one of their projects are not profitable because it all works out in the end.

maybe you are right and i am naive on how the filtering process works. One thing i can say is, the current strategies to filter porn from .com, suck!

this is how i feel

adult sites in .xxx -> good
adult sites in .com et al -> bad

 

[McDuke]

here is a big news flash for you: most illegal porn sites don't use domains at all.

can you explain this? what do they use?

 

[Ms Domainer]

They have more class because they've decided to use the gTLD of a private business that more or less was created to extort money from non-adult businesses through removing potential association? If the goal was to get everyone to .XXX why did they apply for .PORN, .SEX, .ADULT? The .XXX is just another piece of the adult industry and one that the rest of the industry has shunned.

I'm all for protection of minors, I'm all for education of people into the dangers of porn addiction, I'm all for teaching men that women have individual wants/needs/desires that may or may not always jive with yours. I'm all for getting society to a point where all men and all women have as much right as each other to be promiscuous or abstinent or whatever level in between of their own choosing without any cultural prejudice... whether that be same sex, bisex, heterosex.

The solution to any problems is not one that can be solved by just tagging a url with an extension. We don't have urls for "Search index don't follow" because that's not the right solution.



I hear this argument all the time. The idea that some company deliberately loses money to write it off on their taxes? That's not how it works... you come up with novel ways to have "tax losses" that you write off. You don't actually want to really lose money.



If you want to regulate porn, you have to regulate porn. Your argument is like saying that if we want everyone to be energy efficient then we should force everyone to buy a Toyota Prius. Your argument is literally that specific. Everyone should use ICM and .XXX.



There you have defined an issue - too much access to people you consider too young to view porn. So - work with search engines, work with browsers to filter, work with meta data, try and enforce codified web architectures. The adult industry wouldn't mind that much.


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I rather hope that someone in law enforcement spent time enforcing law and not monitoring .xxx sites. What would you be looking for exactly? There are law enforcement divisions working every day on cp, sex trafficking, abuse etc. I want my police force doing what they are tasked with - policing their jurisdiction.

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That's what the vice squad does: monitor porn sites (especially suspected pedophilia and sex trafficking sites). These scumbags have a huge internet presence, operating largely in the dark web. But there are also local yokels who prey on minors by hanging out in these pedo forums, and some of them are stupid enough to operate on the web.

The old adage applies: where there's smoke, there is likely to be fire.

Part of me feels that prostitution should be legal; perhaps law enforcement should just leave alone those people of legal age who, for, whatever reason, need it outside their marital vows. One cannot legislate fidelity. But I'm not sure that would even begin to solve the systemic societal problem of child exploitation, rape, and sex trafficking, which occurs within the borders of the U.S., by the way -- in my local area, a "massage parlor" was busted a few years ago for holding Chinese women as slaves for the sex trade. Now tell me this: do johns determine if the women they hire for sex are doing this of their own free will or are, in fact, sex slaves? Doubtful.

Pornography and the other "vice" businesses (gambling, marijuana in some areas, and alcohol) may be legal, but by their very nature of appealing to a customer's basest instincts they are also more prone to the dark side of the law, which is why the vice squad pays special attention to them.

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[Kate]

I'm not a bible thumper or anything, i just feel there is way too much adult content in .com where all ages search, work, learn and play and the big players should make the move to .xxx for this reason.

Guess what: if you look for porn, you will get porn. If you stick to mainstream, legit sites you will be okay. How many times have you been served porn today while casually browsing the Internet ? Perhaps I am underestimating the problem.

People try to protect .com way too much. .com is just a gtld like the others, the only difference is it was used first.

.com doesn't need protection at all. I am not defending .com, just pointing out at the failures of .xxx and its siblings. But YOU are defending .xxx, because evidently it cannot present a compelling record by its own merits. The TLD for the adult industry is shunned by the adult industry. It says it all.

Look, I am sorry if you invested heavily in .xxx, domainers all make mistakes. The sooner you acknowledge the fact, the better.

 

[McDuke]

Guess what: if you look for porn, you will get porn. If you stick to mainstream, legit sites you will be okay. How many times have you been served porn today while casually browsing the Internet ? Perhaps I am underestimating the problem.

.com doesn't need protection at all. I am not defending .com, just pointing out at the failures of .xxx and its siblings. But YOU are defending .xxx, because evidently it cannot present a compelling record by its own merits. The TLD for the adult industry is shunned by the adult industry. It says it all.

Look, I am sorry if you invested heavily in .xxx, domainers all make mistakes. The sooner you acknowledge the fact, the better.

I did invest in .xxx when it first came out because i thought it was a good idea, and it was only 20 names, i kept 5. Do you think 300$ in annual renewals is considered heavily invested? I know others in this thread also invested in .xxx.

 

[McDuke]

http://www.thedomains.com/2014/07/03/google-adult-ad-ban-now-in-effect/

well well well....

 

[FPForum]

Screw .XXX - ICMregistry sucks and they will probably hold every single name worth more than half of what it costs to register a XXX. I would expect to see any .XXX sale over $100 was probably sold by the ICM registry, lol.