Would You / Have You Purchased Any .XXX Domains?
 

I've yet to buy any .xxx domains and was interested in hearing the pros and cons of doing so? There are a lot of great singular word domains still available and I've been thinking about picking up a few, thanks.

Pros - none.
Cons - yes.
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I haven't purchased one nor do I plan on purchasing one.

Costs more money, has the ability to be hiked further and doesn't give you any special status.

No interest in purchasing one, unless it was a one-word domain, to be honest.

Great explanation.

indeed !:thumbsup

We bought XloveCam.xxx and Xlove.xxx

They are redirected to the main site and for trademark protection at this time.

The new gTLDs will use Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) | ICANN New gTLDs and defensive registrations will not be necessary to trademark holders.

dot xxx was marketed wrong, IMHO, and over-priced.

If they had used the tag line: "Get your rocks off on .xxx" and spent $4 million on advertising they might have impact in brand identity and awareness with the public creating demand. Instead, they went the IFORR -- internet police route, and shot themselves in the foot (my own personal opinion).

If some country should restrict adult oriented content to only exist within this gTLD, then we have hedged our bets and can reconfigure our servers in haste. Just a business option decision.

.xxx is a virtual ghost town. Unless you are geotargeting specific countries with ccTLDs, only buy .com domains.

ive always hated these tlds, .aluminum, .kleenex, .flowers blah blah blah so stupid imo

nope, still trying to stay with .com

always wanted but didn't so far
don't see any purpose, haven't seen established .xxx traffic sites but some paysites

No interest.
.xxx is a dying if not dead trend.

All porn segregated to one domain -- agreed

The New gTLD's :winkwink:

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These are all of the delegated TLD strings gTLD and ccTLD and a few others.

Talk about name dilution ...

The Google registry names
 

Google applied and was the successful applicant on all of these names:

Google may have spent $8 million for sport or maybe to start marketing their own gTLDS -- time will tell.

the .xn are Unicode UTF-8 language characters BTW

The SEO merits of XXX are still unconfirmed, but I would recommend it if you have an adult product, and could not obtain the .com you wanted.

Here's an example:
Suppose you are a dildo-making company. Dildo.com and dildos.com are taken, but dildos.xxx is available. Your company's staple product is a dildo. "dildo" is an instantly recognizeable term. So dildos.xxx would be perfect branding compared to a long-tail domain with .com.

Don't buy .xxx just for the sake of seeing something that is available. Find something that fits your product and use the domain as your brand.

1. Never try to brand a name that you have not trademarked *(successfully).
   
2. A trademark containing a TLD string does not satisfy the UDRP 3 elements of domain dispute.

dildo.xxx was your example so I will roll with it ...

First of all it is registered do it's a no starter -- bad example maybe?

The Dildo.com trademark was cancelled

http://3mp1r3.cam500.com/img/boards/...rch-dildos.png

Canceled their ticket on a Section 8 -- some military humor in that one :0D

Don't mistake a SEO name for a product branding they have nothing to do with each other.

Say you wanted to brand 'moms dildos'. Maybe, you could get that trademark accepted (?) In any UDRP arbitration: If the Defendant name contained your wordmark moms dildos, e.g.; mymomsdildos.com, then you could claim trademark infringement of that name.

Branding is about trademark at its root, then brand awareness and public support and acceptance of your brand.

A brand is not a domain or a logo ...

.com rules now and always will

interesting thread..