why can't we all just go back to being bros with no names?

Bush league.

Things really aren't going very smoothly

If the whois information shows that the domains have been given to other individuals, I would say the blame is to be placed on the registrar, not ICM. Of course, blaming the registrar is tough when dealing with such a massive amount of registrations occurring. It's just a shitty situation. I hope you at least scored some other great domains!

In case it was missed - DWB, please email me with the two domains that DirectNic reversed so I can look into it. All communication will be kept confidential.

I agree you should inform ICANN as this may not be an isolated incident and ICANN could have already received similar complaints from others in your same situation.

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what domains? curious as to what they think are premium.

DWB, Further to your email to customer support we have looked into this and it was clearly an error on DirecNIC's part, for which we believe they have admitted and apologized to you.

The names in question were both purchases within 95 seconds of the registry opening by two separate registrants via Name.com.

It appears however that there are other, similar names available, including one premium domain if you would like to contact me to discuss.

So who owns names like milf.xxx ?
Who is NAmedia? Same people that started the whole xxx thing?

I am pretty sure that Namedia is Frank Schilling's group. They are the ones that are going to basically try to sell those premium names back to the good folks of the adult world probably since I don't think they are in the adult biz to begin with.

Sending you mail now.

Yep, that's exactly what I'd expect from dealing with scumbags. It'll be fun to watch what happens a year from now aster sites are developed and they do the same type of thing with renewals. They wouldn't do that on renewals, right? That would be a scummy thing to do. Yes, it will be scummy but not surprising because we know they are scumbags.

When we got them, losing them was the last thing on my mind. I thought maybe we'd get hit with another fee to get the member ID with ICM or something else, but it never crossed my mind that things would not be lined up right with the registrars or that this problem would happen.

It did put me on guard and make me question what is going on even more, and I feel like a jack hole because we could have replaced them with other names if I would have been alerted soon enough. Now, the best names are either gone or reserved. I'd rather have a couple "just in case" in the odd event that something tragic down the road happens to .com and adult sites. I looked at it more as insurance than anything.

Directnic has since written me and apologized and took the blame, saying they simply could not secure them for me. I feel like they are blowing smoke up my ass because I don't understand why they would send a confirmation email and "award" them to me if the domains were not secured in the first place. You'd think they would have the process down by now regardless of the tld. We have over 200 domains with them and have never had a single issue with them until now.

*sigh*

The pillow and my naked GF is calling my name. Night everyone.

Check your inbox.

Youre better off without them.

Success stories et al.

Lost WHO.EU a decade back, but AFAIK it was the registrar's scam.

BLA.XXX is in my name and it's a goodun'. http://icmregistry.com/whois/

This is funny, for years this board bitched about tubes, now you all run multiple tube empires.

Recently you have all been bitching about .xxx , but guess what everybody is registering multiple domains !

.xxx is shady :2 cents:
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guess what, yer full of shit.

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Yeah i would like to know who owns the top domains !

I got a fucking good idea about it ....

FUCK .xxx names

Best to read what people are posting before you comment. It goes some way to stopping you from looking completely stoopid. Although I should imagine that is a tall order in your case.......

They took the top domains and when you check the whois you get one of these 2 messages:
Reserved by ICM Registry for Premium Generic Domain Names Program.
For more information please contact: [email protected].
or
This name will be awarded after an auction.
Click xxxauctions.pool.com for more information.

First come first serve my ass, crooks

There were approximately 1k common word, generic premium names reserved by ICM Registry, which is significantly LESS than the usual 5k or so reserved by most new TLD's. Some of those we will be developing as search/traffic/resource portals. The vast majority of them however, we would like to see developed and we encourage people to contact us with development ideas.

Anything that is showing as being in an auction would be from Landrush, and those are closed auctions only between the people that bid for the name during that phase of launch, not an open auction.

They are paying millions to brand .xxx and when you type one of the domains in you go to one of their properties or a negotiated leased property.

No "regfee" scores to be had.

Can that reserve list be found any where?

I belive that .tv did the same thing when that tld came out. All the good generic terms were sold on auction.

No, but Smokey created a nifty little tool during Landrush and published many of them in various threads.

The difference is that while some of these domains will go to auction, we really want to see them developed with great new ideas. If you have a plan for something exciting and innovative that will blow our minds and knock our socks off, so to speak, and the ability to make it happen, it's possible that we'll allocate a premium domain for the same nominal fee as a domain purchased during General Availability from a registrar.

If you got zone file access you could figure it out.

But it appears the zone files are being treated as top secret, despite their agreement with ICANN.

I fixed that for you.

DWB same thing has now happened to me, logged into my account today and both .xxx domains are saying Registration Failed in red. That's a few days after registering them so this could well be an issue with DirectNIC :2 cents:

As long as DirectNIC issue a refund for the domains and WHOIS privacy I'm not that bothered TBH

your kindness is much appreciated, I'm sure:winkwink:

Best to look around you for a reality check genius, you're in the wrong arena.
Read what people are saying and how they are replying, many in this thread are NOT buying into the .XXX game.

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We aren't in the content business. This sort of opportunity however, (which is real business, with real contracts that include real mutual NDA's) could be fantastic for someone who has a really innovative idea, to spotlight that idea in a way they might otherwise not be able to. To that end, I'll continue to invite people to approach us with exemplary ideas.

If you had of been smart instead of greedy with your new TLD you would have approached all the biggest companies in adult and gave away all the best domains for free and charged $10 per domain like most other TLDs.

Then a lot of the bigger companies, tubes etc would have considered rebranding to .xxx and within a year surfers would type .xxx for many of the biggest sites in the world.

You would have made more money in the long run if you hadn't turned this industry against you :2 cents:

There is no chance they would have made more money at $10 domains, not one. Adult is a fraction of the internet, a very small fraction. They could sell domains to every single company / webmaters / etc and wouldn't come close to getting rid of as many names as an extension that is mainstream friendly. $100 is not that much money, big companies don't need $100 handouts and webmasters that actually work on their business don't either.

Ok fair point about the money aspect :)

I still think giving some of the best domains away to the biggest companies could have worked out better for them than their current strategy.

You're right that big companies don't need $100 handouts but if I had a massive site in adult and .xxx approached me saying they'd give me a great 3 or 4 letter domain related to my niche I'd consider rebranding.

Will be interesting to see how things will have played out in a years time :)