HAHA After being awarded .XXX names, they just took them away.
 

Epic sleaze move. :1orglaugh

Two of the names I got were premium names that somehow ICANN didn't reserve for themselves. So I got them. Directnic awarded me the domains.

Today, they contact me saying there was an error and those two domains are no longer mine. :1orglaugh


Honestly, I expected such shenanigans. Curious if this happened to anyone else.

Dirty White Bastards! :1orglaugh

that is bad

Haha as expected. Someone even wrote here that it would happen.
Like someone asked why the domains they registered didn't work yet, and the guy was like "They have to be manually approved, so they can make sure they didn't forget to reserve some premium domains, and if they did, they will just take them and say it was an error"

Seems he was right

That is exactly what they did.

After you buy a domain, you have to get a ICANN ID in order to activate it. That's when they can look at your domain and decide if they want it or not.

I'm not really upset over it, that's what I get for buying a couple. But I think it's funny that it's playing out exactly how people thought it would.

They giving you your money back?

so , in couple months im sure if .xxx its mine and safe or no ?:321GFY

Supposedly within the next 7 business days, but I'm not sure if it's for the full amount or not yet.

Who knows. After making this thread, I found out my friend had the same thing happen to one of his domains today too. Another great domain. Gone.

So they ARE taking back domains, there is no doubt about it. Maybe they oversold them, or they want to keep them for premium names so they can find some sucker to pay 100k+ for them. Who knows.

I wouldn't be building anything on one of them for a little while until ICANN decides which domains they want to take back. Now you can see what they can do, I have to wonder how far down the road can they claim them.

Good times.

My .XXX domains are now in motion.

It would be interesting to see if they'd let michaellawleyisacunt.xxx through.

Fucking scammers.

Everyone knew that going in.

I'm waiting for the mail to take the other 3 away from me too. I got 5, all related to by business, and all 5 are/were really, really good ones.

So how do you apply for an ICANN ID?

I bought 2 via DirectNIC but I'm getting Domain Status: FAIL: Domain not resolving

DirectNIC said they take 48 hours to update but I didn't get an ICANN ID

If ICM are using a system like this to revolk domain ownership for good domains they forgot to reserve, what is to stop them from just taking your domain away from you a few years down the line?

Doubt mine will be approved then since one is a well know 3 letter domain and the other is a great 4 letter domain.

That really is a scandalous system they have setup :disgust

That's beyond fucked up. You paid for it, you registered it, and they fucking stole it! I was kind of getting excited about .xxx and the possibilities, and I started to think that the whole thing might not be that bad after all. Man, was I wrong!

Yeah I would be willing to give a .xxx domain a go but with sly tactics like this I would never feel safe knowing they have control.

DWB care to share what domains they took back?

Criminals...

You should have first received an email that was the normal domain receipt. Then they sent an email saying you were awarded the domains.

Then if they take them away, you get another email saying that there was an error and you no longer have the domains. Sorry.



I'm happy this happened early on. I will not be building a large site on .XXX. This was a lesson learned.


I'm sure there are 1000s they are taking back right now.


Let me finish disputing all of this with Directnic and ICANN. Once I'm totally defeated, I will list them if you would like.

If that is the case, then what they are doing is illegal. That's fucked up dude.

Bookmarked this thread, let us know how it all turns out and if there is any turn of events. Good luck!

wow, this is some serious scam. and the message is, one more reason to stay away of that someones private playground

Well I got the normal domain receipt yesterday when I placed the order, that's all I've gotten so far.

If they are pulling this type of shit on people I wouldn't be bothered if they didn't approve my domains :2 cents:

No worries :)

Perhaps DotXXX would care to step in and comment.

when you say premium do you mean you think they are premium, or were they previously designated by icm as premium?

Where is that fuckwit dotxxx - surely he'll have some bullshit spin on this.

if you buy .xxx, then you get what you deserve

Prob poor wording on by behalf. They were not designated "premium" buy ICM but they were equal to many that were, and maybe should have been. Good names.

That is what I think happened, they saw them and took them back. They can probably get more money for them than the $99 I paid.

But who knows. Could have been a computer glitch as well. I suppose anything is possible.

Absolutely. I knew that going in and will take my lumps like a big boy.

In my ICM account for the first 16 domains I purchased, all domains are flagged as "membershipValid". That's it. I haven't heard anything from them about status, whether I got them or not, or DNS. They might refuse some of mine because of obscenity but I also got some decent premium ones and they can't have any excuse for not awarding these to me unless they really are nasty unreliable opportunistic lying inbreed scum.

If you don't get a full refund, then you should call your credit card company and do a chargeback. Fuck those douchebags at ICM!

You got what you deserved, typical British inbreed maggot brain retard :1orglaugh

Edit: why are you reading threads about xxx anyway if you're against xxx. You must be really bored.

Domainers always say if you really do in fact own a "premium" domain name "you'll know it". I guess ICM let you know.

They can be valid and still be taken away. Trust me. :upsidedow

Clearly they were good enough to be taken back. They let me know. :pimp

Were they single word domains?

Yes I believe you. Well they can take those domains, they can't take my content and if they are playing things dirty or they're going to act like censors like some are suggesting, then I'll continue doing my thing on .com
If they make a mess or their own .xxx extension then that's going to reflect on the people using it and the content being distributed through it and then people willing to pay for quality porn quickly know that they need to stay away from .xxx domains. Their advertising and marketing can't change that, in the end it's all about the content, not the packing.

And next year someone will come with the .porn extension and maybe handle things in a more honest way, then I'll happy to apply for that.

word....

Explain to me what you mean here :disgust

Yes, once I know it's a lost cause, you and I will be in touch. You have contact info? You can email it to me, its in my sig.

Same thing happened to me when .MOBI came out and I registered milfs.mobi .... I got an email the next day saying 'sorry, we made an error and that name was already registered'

Sounds a shady move.

Another .xxx success story.

well with any land rush type of setting you are bound to have two people attempting to register within the same time period ...could this of happened and someone got it shortly before you did and the system didnt update to alert it was taken?

Just shows you the type dishonest scum these people truly are.....nothing but crooks!

You may want to hold on to all that correspondence for when an investigation starts against ICM and ICANN. :2 cents:v

I hope you get all your money back.

not surprised

shut up you fucking fag, that isn't the case here.

What about your valuable relationship with manwin? Aren't you afraid you'll lose your "stand up guy" rating with the thieving cock-suckers? :winkwink:

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Absolutely shocked.