I do not trust .xxx
Something else going on there
something sinister

This should be good enough for anyone who might have been wondering. Baddog isn't the kind of guy to answer directly with a lie. He'd be more inclined to avoid the answer, or if he was involved, he'd defend his relationship to ICM.

I read this out loud to goodgirl. She laughed and said, "yep."

So where does that leave your new acquisitions from Twistys - SexTube.com and GayTube.com? Both domains would likely be considered generic terms and not eligible for trademark protection. Therefore, they can't be registered during the .XXX Sunrise period and they can't be permanently blocked by paying ICM Registry's one-time fee. Prior to your ultimatum, the most likely scenario would've been ICM Registry auctioning off the domains to the highest bidder.

you friends with anyone associated with ics/xxx?

According to S.1255 -- Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was passed as a U.S. law, the penalty for willful registration or use of a trademark in a domain is subject to a judgment of up to $300k per infringing domain plus legal fees.

I'm not a lawyer, but Manwin probably can't get U.S. trademark protection for brands such as JugFuckers, Big Tits at Work / at School / In Sports / In Uniform, Jizz on my Jugs, et al, due to the scandalous clause I've brought up in other recent ICM Registry / .XXX threads. In that case, Manwin would likely be forced to pony up money to bid at auction to protect these brands and pay the annual .XXX renewal fees.

I hide nothing. Now, why don't you do the same? Too paranoid from the drug use?

post proof i am on drugs or ban.

Go for it.

This is great news, well played Manwin.

When large sites don't show up on .xxx that prevents the surfer being mislead that "all good porns sites are on .xxx".

I think it's vitally important, that even those that do succumb to buying their .xxx name equivlent don't use it, so the adult center of gravity never shifts to .xxx.

:2 cents:

You've just contradicted your own statement. You have just stated what everyone thinks about Manwin and .XXX so how you think any kind of "positive spin" charade is going to work DEFIES LOGIC.

People see through this shit and no amount of PR is going to change that. We know what Manwin does and we sure as hell know what ICM is up to.

You do. You just said it, and I know what you just said so back to the original point.
NO this is not going to send clients streaming to ICM.

Any amount of exposure for ICM on this board is going to draw the same conclusions.
Why?
Because its the TRUTH.

Manwin is smart. Getting behind .xxx would just make them vulnerable to seclusion.

My industry ?

I think this is a cue for a Freudian Slip joke

Two men are talking in the bar sharing their sob stories.

One man says, "I had the worst Freudian Slip the other day."

The other man responds, "What is a Freudian Slip?"

"You know, it's when you mean to say one thing, but you say something else that reveals what you are really thinking about. Like the other day I was at the airport and this really beautiful lady was helping me. Instead of asking her for 'two tickets to Pittsburgh', I asked her for 'to Pickets to Tittsburgh."

he second replies, "Oh, now I know what you are talking about. It's like the other day when I was having breakfast with my wife. I wanted her to pass me the Orange Juice, and instead I said, "YOU RUINED MY LIFE!"

You seem to be convinced that all publicity is good publicity for ICM Registry / .XXX. If their evil intentions are exposed, so that more potential buyers steer clear of them, how is that beneficial to them?

If the Food and Drug Administration says there's been an huge outbreak of e. coli poisoning at McDonalds, and news agencies across the world are disseminating that information to the masses, is that supposed to cause a surge of customers to go buy Big Macs?

this is still going ?:winkwink:

:2 cents:

can we discuss the number and place of toilets in the Manwin headquarters again? The last thread about it didn't really have a clear outcome.

The system we have in place is called Vobile. Also, safe harbor and sunrise is hardly the same thing. BTW, using infringing, stealing and safe harbor or dmca in the same sentence makes little sense. Just shows how little you understand this.

your irony detector is broken... :glugglug

Pass on you?? You clearly do not know much about me! Lol...

Thats one way to look at it.

In walks Joan...

Ok, let's get this straight once and for all.

As most people around here know:
- I've been fighting this .xxx for a very long time.
- I've never been afraid to speak my mind.
- I'm not the kind of person that starts fake drama all over the place.

Some time ago I started noticing something odd. I started getting the impression that you (who in the past has always been anti .xxx) were getting more tolerant towards the ICM Registry. Whether or not this was your intention is impossible to tell. You're the only one who can answer that. But based on your posts, that was the impression I got.

At the same time I noticed a certain hostility from your part towards people who used humor (comments like "I heard all .xxx are filled with malware") to fight the .xxx or people who made certain errors in thinking when writing their anti .xxx posts. At the time I didn't think much of this. I attributed it to a difference in style. Personally I applaud any attempt to stop the ICM and if someone makes an error I try to correct it. Just like I did in goodgirl's thread about the danger of the ICM monopolizing search in the .xxx tld. You have, let's face it, at times displayed the tendency to "bark" (pun intended) at those posts you deem to be "simpleminded". Again, it is possible that this was never your intention. however, that is the impression I got.

Last week, when chatting on icq about the .xxx tld, 2 other GFY'ers brought up the exact same points. And 1 of them asked me if I knew something about a rumor he'd heard. The rumor being that you had been approached by the ICM to fill the gap created when Chris 2/3.0 left. My first reaction was : this can't be true. Or maybe they did approach him but he surely must have told them to go fuck themselves.

Around the same time I got a 3rd icq msg about the same rumor. I discreetly asked around. I emailed 2 people who've been long time members of this industry and fiercely anti-.xxx. Both of them replied that they didn't know anything about this and that they'd find it hard to believe. I also contacted 5 people on icq. 2 of them I basically told "this is the rumor, know anything about?". The 3 others I asked more indirectly: "any news on the .xxx front?".

Out of those 7 people I contacted (2email, 5 icq), 2 replied that they had picked up a rumor about you, 1 other didn't know anything about a rumor but did mention what he described to be your "change of heart".

At that time I started to get a bit worried. To be honest, I never like your style, but I always respected your efforts to fight the .xxx tld and I was impressed when you took the time and made the effort to go to san Fransisco to be one of the few to actually protest there.

Part of me didn't want to believe the rumors. Another part of me is always a bit suspicious, so you could summarize my position at that time as: "I hope it's not true."

Around that time I started a new gfy thread asking if the ICM Registry had hired a gfy-er to do its dirty work. One reason for this was that the way Chris 2/3.0 and NALEM got shitlisted all over the place for doing business with the ICM and that this thread would serve as a warning/message to whoever might be considering taking money from the ICM next. The other reason was to find out if anyone knew anything about the rumor that the ICM had approached you. In that thread I never once said anything about you or the rumor about you.

Funny thing is that some of the replies in that thread could be seen as references to you and 1 person later contacted me asking "Who is it? Is it baddog?". I replied: "I hope not".

To be honest, I still wasn't sure what to make of it. Lots of rumors, no proof...

At one point you made an anti-.xxx remark and I replied that it was great to see that you still were anti-.xxx and that the rumors must false then.

At that point i really thought, ok, he's still on the good side.

However, ever since then you have continued to display a certain hostility. You never once asked what this rumor was (I never posted it) either on gfy or on icq. Did you already know about this rumor?

So to summarize: personally I don't think you are working for the ICM. However, the attitude you have been displaying lately has obviously given the impression to some that you are. Your refusal to clearly state that you are not working for the ICM (either directly or indirectly) when people allude to it, may not be the best way to handle this. And calling everyone who says something you don't like a simpleton or an idiot certainly isn't.

Why the fuck would I care what you thought?

Getting touchy, are we?

Do you have something against Romans;)

But really if the whole story was that free tubes killed this industry, you might as well close down GFY and simply put "Free Tubes Killed This Industry" on the front page and be done with it.

IMO the worst thing that can happen is that people forget, so keeping open discussion of these current issues is not only good it's absolutely necessary.

LOL awesome

:1orglaugh funny huh.

How about you let us know when she sneezes, that would be fun :upsidedow

Are you working for ICMRegistry, yes or no?

Try opening your eyes.

Yes or no?

LTD`s, STD`s, i thought it was all the same.

Baddog, answer the question. Or do you have something to hide?

You need to stop being so obvious who you are, u-bob.

A few big studios stand to make a killing if .XXX becomes mandatory. At the same time, a few big companies stand to lose an enormous amount of money because of .XXX.
Just hope those big companies, that could end up losing most of their profits, if .XXX becomes law, will not allow that to happen.

Can you name them? Is the answer the studios that buy the domains now?

cool thread