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bwhhisc
29th December 2006, 12:21 AM
And not a mention of IDNs...sigh...

http://www.circleid.com/posts/top_domain_name_news_stories_2006/

touchring
29th December 2006, 02:18 AM
Not surprised, just go to NP and DNF, what people are talking about all the time.

Drewbert
29th December 2006, 04:46 AM
>As for adult domains, many of the big players in the industry want nothing to do with
>them. Investors in these companies don’t want to be associated with adult
>entertainment.

And yet hotel chains and satellite TV providers still make most of their money from adult PPV.

The hypocrisy and doubles standards are astounding.

rhys
29th December 2006, 06:44 AM
Interesting fact I came across when I was a management consultant. 35% of the people who order on demand porn in their hotel rooms are women. Interesting huh?

touchring
29th December 2006, 08:27 AM
>As for adult domains, many of the big players in the industry want nothing to do with
>them. Investors in these companies don’t want to be associated with adult
>entertainment.

And yet hotel chains and satellite TV providers still make most of their money from adult PPV.

The hypocrisy and doubles standards are astounding.


Perhaps adult names are now not worth the PPC? I read somewhere saying Sex.com earned a great deal of money during the 90s, money stashed all over the place? Seems taht the trend in internet is less and less profit for the small guys.

Rubber Duck
29th December 2006, 11:35 AM
If Chinese Domains Ltd yet qualifies as one of the market leaders is a mute point, but we have taken the view that we do not wish to be associated with Adult Entertainment, just as we do not want to be associated with Generics that are prefixed with "E" or "I", we do not wish to be associated with "XXX" either. I guess, unlike some other prominent domainers, we feel we have sufficient genuine generics not to have to bother with this kind of stuff.

And not a mention of IDNs...sigh...

http://www.circleid.com/posts/top_domain_name_news_stories_2006/

This is the best bit:

<<The number of .mobi domains selling on the aftermarket is staggering.>>

It is staggering how quickly hot news is as stale as yesterdays lunch!

The fulll list of reported sales of dot mobi last week is:

Hobby.mobi $1,665

Drewbert
29th December 2006, 06:24 PM
A good adult .com sold for mid xx,xxx this month.

Rubber Duck
29th December 2006, 06:50 PM
A good adult .com sold for mid xx,xxx this month.

IDN?

Drewbert
29th December 2006, 06:57 PM
Sorry, no. ASCII.

Rubber Duck
29th December 2006, 06:59 PM
Hold the price increases!

Don't get me wrong, I have no real views on Adult. We have just choosen not to get involved. It is a different market, requires different skills and sends a PR message that we do not necessarily want.

sarcle
29th December 2006, 07:40 PM
Hold the price increases!

Don't get me wrong, I have no real views on Adult. We have just choosen not to get involved. It is a different market, requires different skills and sends a PR message that we do not necessarily want.

That's why you break them up into smaller other companies, that you don't talk about but set aside and let grow, if you are chosing to be "big" in the spot light under one company name. I however could careless about the "moral" dilemmas involved with adult domains it's a product plain and simple and there are consumers.

Hell most major companies can be traced back to porn in some form or another. If they don't invest in their stocks they invest in their magazines sitting on the shelves at the local Barnes and Nobles. It's all the same to me.

blastfromthepast
29th December 2006, 10:05 PM
requires different skills and sends a PR message that we do not necessarily want.

This attitude killed the Tokyo IDN convention.

bwhhisc
29th December 2006, 10:39 PM
That's why you break them up into smaller other companies, that you don't talk about but set aside and let grow, if you are chosing to be "big" in the spot light under one company name. I however could careless about the "moral" dilemmas involved with adult domains it's a product plain and simple and there are consumers.
Hell most major companies can be traced back to porn in some form or another. If they don't invest in their stocks they invest in their magazines sitting on the shelves at the local Barnes and Nobles. It's all the same to me.

Just look up about any sex catagory on EBAY, its for sale. Same with Cable TV with hardcore on pay per view, and some pretty racy stuff on Playboy channel etc. in late hours. Not to mention what you can find in some of the national chain convenience stores and national book retailers...or what they are willing to order for you.

Bimbo
29th December 2006, 10:42 PM
(...) 35% of the people who order on demand porn in their hotel rooms are women. Interesting huh?

very interesting, not surprising but interesting.
Thanks (in where country please?)

I think it can be 50/50 or 60/40 in future, don't you? (for some country)

Just to add:
sex = 7.000.000 persons concerned ....

And for all ages, all activities (offcourse toys, videos, 'enlarge your', etc, but as well sterility, advises, prevention, disease unfortunatly.....)
You can speak about sex in very varied way according to the age of the target
(18, 40, 70)
It's a physiologic need as eat, to wash itself , clothing , etc... to reproduce !

Rubber Duck
29th December 2006, 10:43 PM
Just look up about any sex catagory on EBAY, its for sale. Same with Cable TV with hardcore on pay per view, and some pretty racy stuff on Playboy channel etc. in late hours. Not to mention what you can find in some of the national chain convenience stores and national book retailers...or what they are willing to order for you.

Your having a laugh. The Porn King himself tells me that there is no valuable traffic in Asia, and what little bit there is just English speaking punters spending US dollars.

Bimbo
29th December 2006, 10:46 PM
Your having a laugh. The Porn King himself tells me that there is no valuable traffic in Asia, and what little bit there is just English speaking punters spending US dollars.

maybe to protect its market

Rubber Duck
29th December 2006, 10:50 PM
maybe to protect its market

You hit it head on there! Biggest market manipulation in history!

Mind you the Japanese would have a job to figure out where he was coming from with all those XXX prefixes and off beat slang terms!

sarcle
30th December 2006, 04:30 AM
Just look up about any sex category on EBAY, its for sale. Same with Cable TV with hardcore on pay per view, and some pretty racy stuff on Playboy channel etc. in late hours. Not to mention what you can find in some of the national chain convenience stores and national book retailers...or what they are willing to order for you.

Yes it's quite funny what people do and say. Especially this whole "clean-up" the online industry bullshit. Porn and Gambling is arguably what made the internet so popular in the beginning.

If you take a step back from the "religious conservative" aspect both of these genres are commodities and both have consumers willing to buy goods that are offered. In a purely business scope it doesn't make any sense to ignore this.


Rubber Duck[/B]]Your having a laugh. The Porn King himself tells me that there is no valuable traffic in Asia, and what little bit there is just English speaking punters spending US dollars.


Really? People in Asia don't pay for sex or gamble, nor do they buy sex toys? Hm they must not think about it then... weird, I wouldn't have guessed considering the number of people in China. Guess he knows everything then. We should all bow down to his knowledge.

Drewbert
30th December 2006, 05:06 AM
the internet is for porn

Bimbo
30th December 2006, 07:57 AM
First provider in France (free.fr) make fortune in 80's with sex with 'Le Minitel'.

It was a mainly a meet service (hetero, gay....) they were no limit, even prostitute
!.
You paid at minute wich was very expensive, but new, so Big Success here.

Now, free.fr is one on the biggest society here...

Another example in Europe is meetic, a meet service as well that is one the the more beautiful success here (in stock exchange, everywhere in europe....)
There's a lot of 'single person' (translator sorry) here.

For info and to refresh memory:
Minitel was the ancestor of Internet in France during 80's.
Yes, we had our Internet but it was only for France.

For fun:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/nl/thumb/4/4b/Minitel.jpg/320px-Minitel.jpg


For info:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

- http://images.google.fr/images?sourceid=navclient&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-41,GGLJ:fr&q=minitel&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

To resume: big success, at the same time that IBM PC in 1981, ALCATEL Minitel in 1982.

sarcle
30th December 2006, 06:15 PM
the internet is for porn

I noticed the lack of punctuation in this sentence. When depending on who you are it really could be any one of these, ( . ? ! ). :)

Rubber Duck
30th December 2006, 06:25 PM
the internet is for porn

Well, that would be one perception, but in many places that is unlikely to be the case.

After the episode with Gambling, I would be totally convinced that the same couldn't happen to porn in the US.

sarcle
30th December 2006, 06:39 PM
Well, that would be one perception, but in many places that is unlikely to be the case.

After the episode with Gambling, I would be totally convinced that the same couldn't happen to porn in the US.


Yes our great US lawmakers. That's another funny quest for morality and decency in the US. Instead of regulating and taxing it they outright ban it. I'm in the middle of the US and there are 4 casinos less than 5 miles from my house. Meanwhile when I'm on my way to them. I go by "Barnes and Nobles" one of the largest book retailer chains in the US and stop in and get a "Starbucks" coffee and read the latest edition of "Hustler" magazine. This of course is all a dream.

I makes me wonder when things like this happen if they have ever learned their lesson from the first time they tried prohibition. "You can't stop something that people want and will do anything to get." But alas history repeats itself once again.

But don't worry the conservatives are almost out of power and we'll see some "real" legislation and repeals soon.

bwhhisc
30th December 2006, 06:39 PM
the internet is for porn

Your own gateway to fun and fantasy in all flavors and languages

Clotho
30th December 2006, 08:30 PM
the internet is for porn

I would guess that Drewbert was refering to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhTxRssxfuI

:)