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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
MESA, Ariz. — GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar, has announced pricing for .XXX domain names.
.XXX domains acquired through GoDaddy are priced the following:
During the Sunrise A period, .XXX domains through GoDaddy will be priced at $209.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Sunrise A applicants must have either verifiable trademark rights or are owners of exact matching domains in other TLDs.
During Sunrise B, created for non-adult industry intellectual property holders, GoDaddy plans on charging $199.99 for the one-time, non-refundable, non-reversible processing fee that blocks the domain name from .XXX registration for 10 years. Sunrise B allows companies to block their domains in the .XXX sTLD.
Pricing for Landrush, where there are no qualification requirements, is at $199.99 for the non-refundable application fee and first year of domain name registration. Renewals are $99.99 per year. Landrush is designed for online adult operators but is not on a first-come, first-served basis and applications for competing names will go to a closed-auction at the end of the period.
General Availability pricing for GoDaddy .XXX domain names is $99.99 for the first year of domain name registration, with renewals at $99.99 per year. The domain names for General Availability are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
.XXX’s Sunrise period starts in September, with Landrush in November. General Availability is slated for December.
http://www.xbiz.com/news/137424 |
EXCELLENT !
Priced so high they priced themselves out of the market and out of relevancy. The way the economy is right now with people bailing out of the adult industry and closing shop and/or being on a lot tighter budgets you not going to find many people to folk over $100+ for a domain name. Not when they can renew 10 of their dot com domains that they are likely using for the same price of 1 new .xxx.
Also, domainers are less likely to buy up domains on pure speculation due to the high price. A lot of those guys can't afford to renew their decent .com portofolios much less can they drop a lot of money on speculating on a new tld , which has a very narrow niche resale market.
Lastly, less sales = less hype and less use which also = less publicity and less exposure to the general public which = less chances of it ever being pushed/accept as law.
All signs point to fail. Then throw in some new tld's hopefully in the next year or so for .adult .sex .porn etc.. and .xxx becomes the butt of a joke about some British wanker who wasted 10 years and millions of dollars on a total bust.
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Originally Posted by LeRoy
Here's from Lawley himself on Xbiz
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"I am sorry that some of you still seem to be focussed on the cost, without seeing the revenue generating upside."
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Wow!!
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LMAO, can't see the revenue generating "upside" because it doesn't exist, that is why we can't see it. Show people the revenue and then you might get some sales. I'll give you the fact that there is a lot of stupid people who would fall for smoke and mirrors like that, but there isn't a lot of stupid people here who can afford to spend $100 for 1 domain name. lol Nice time you want to con an industy make it cheap enough that you can con the majority of them, not just a few. Fail again.
Moron doesn't understand that he will make 10x more money in volume with lower prices than he would by pricing it so high that very few people will buy it.
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Originally Posted by PromoterX
Ill bookmark this thread to laugh at this comment 5 years from now...
/hopefully not reading this comment from gfy.xxx
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Why wait 5 years, it's a pretty fucking hysterical comment now. I am laughing at it now.
