Comments on: Mike Berkens Invests in .XXX Domains

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:46:29 +0000

I just picked up freep0rn.XXX domain, what value would you put on it? Thanks in advance to all.

Zac

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:34:10 +0000

@Prabhu

An honest advice: get rid of it asap (try getting a refund if you can).

By: Prabhu

Prabhu — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:49:07 +0000

HI guys,
I have bought anobit.xxx domain…the company APPLE just took over for half a billion…hw much cud i get for d domain…if anyone interested in buying it call your price for it..

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:33:56 +0000

All that glitters is not gold. I had porn.net leased a couple of years ago, it got so little type-in traffic that I had to drop the lease after only a couple of months.

If the .com is a high profile, natural destination, sometimes the net gets very little direct navigation traffic.

The .xxx rollout rules change daily, names that were available under Sunrise A, disappear daily under the “Reserved by ICM Registry for Premium Generic Domain Names Program”.

They have effectively now removed all top 200 adult type-in domain names from Sunrise A, to be sold privately to the highest bidder.

Cheers!

By: OuMun

OuMun — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:51:41 +0000

@Joe
Lol, I wished that was true but if I owned 1/3 of my .co domain names in .com version, I probably would be storing cash with a caterpillar.
No offence to all of you .co fan boys, but if Google isn’t going to love the extension you can buy all of them, you aren’t going to make a dime out of it (I’m talking about developing a .CO)

I use the web for work (not domaining), I make a gazillion of searches on Google for any kind of things and never happened to see a .CO.

Keep investing in .COMs, that’s what the great lord Google is screaming to me!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:58:26 +0000

@OuMun

“That’s one of the reasons I dropped all the .COs and labelled them as crap.”

Maybe you dropped all your .COs because they would have been crap even in .COM.

By: RAYY.co

RAYY.co — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:32:09 +0000

.xxx or .co ?

Let the market decide…

Some .co are good one…so as some.xxx are good one as well…

By: Freemarket

Freemarket — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:26:58 +0000

It’s on Sedo and it lists the traffic at about 10,000 hits a month. For the best adult domain in the entire TLD, you would expect a little more than that. So, I am a bit skeptical that it will go for more than six figures.

My take on .co has been that the domains are very good for branding but do not receive a particularly high amount of natural traffic.

However, I do wish .co and this domain owner all the best in this auction. I look forward to watching the whole thing go down.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:14:59 +0000

“That’s one of the reasons I dropped all the .COs and labelled them as crap.”

@OuMun

I personally believe many .COs will be good longer term investments.

By: OuMun

OuMun — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:46:25 +0000

@Elliot, a special thanks to you for sharing your experience with bahamas .co.
That’s one of the reasons I dropped all the .COs and labelled them as crap.

.COMs, .NETs, .ORGs a(nd ccTLDs for local markets) are the way to go.
The rest is just pure gambling

By: ri.sk

ri.sk — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:49:38 +0000

It’s a big risk, and is too early for anyone to tell how well .xxx will do. Personally, I think viewers will see it as a “poor man’s” alternative to .com but there’s no denying that the identity is there and I guess we’ll all see what happens.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:45:32 +0000

“As a general rule, I wouldn’t bet against Mike Berkens or Frank Schilling.”

@ Hal

I agree with you.

By: Hal Meyer

Hal Meyer — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:42:31 +0000

As a general rule, I wouldn’t bet against Mike Berkens or Frank Schilling.

There will be a few valuable extensions in just about every extension, but in the non-dotcom space the quantities are limited.

By: michael berkens

michael berkens — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:03:30 +0000

@ Rick

freeporn.com gets according to compete 3.3 million visitors a month.
If I can pick up 20% of that or 500K visitors a month on one domain I will convert them just fine. Been making money off of adult domains since 1997 and have made thousand a month off of one adult domain since 1999 which cost me $70 to register. If the domain gets serious traffic I will convert enough

@Josh

No the number wasn’t $100,001.

You guys know that sex.net and porn.net sold within months of sex.com and porrn.com and the ratio was like 5% of value. If you think that .XXX domains are worth less than 1% of .com’s or 1/5 of a .net, hey you might be right but I think your wrong.

@ Brad

Under .co they gave the domains away under the founders programs for FREE, I think to those willing to recognize the opportunity early & willing to develop, Bahamas.co I wonder who got that domain in that fashion.

@Bull

Coming up to 25 years married already got the best girl in the world and she agreed to marry me when I didn’t have sh*t

Mike from Wanna, your the only correct one, Frank got in EARLY before the extension got approved and got the best domains for the best prices.

The rest

The rules are set by the registry, they are opened to all. If you have interest step up to the plate, put your money down and take a shot, that is what investing is all about.

Anyway you have all inspired a post that will be up in the AM

By: Sleepy Dwarf

Sleepy Dwarf — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:44:57 +0000

Yawn. I don’t see .XXX catching on so fast, do you? I predict an uber-failure. It is priced WAY too high and is destined to die the same painful death as the new gTLDs. (Think .Travel, .Museum, .Aero, .Mobi, .Biz, .Aero and .Coop).

Didn’t New.Net try .XXX several years ago? Yeah, we know how that ended.

.Com rules. Period. End of discussion. Either BE the .Com owner or… compete against him while he steals your type in traffic, pilfers your misdirected domain based email and eats your cyber lunch.

By: jp

jp — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:41:13 +0000

Haha very tasteful selection. Sorry just made me laugh but in reality they are very good xxx domains. Personally when it comes to new extensions I think it’s best to stick to single words. Multiple words require a longer period of time generally to become killer in a new extension.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:56:15 +0000

“The Average Joe never had a chance.”

@ Brad

I guess the takeaway for us average Joes is that if there’s a name in a new extension we want to buy, we should be in touch with the Registry and make them an offer that is mutually beneficial. I suppose Mike could have waited until the names came to auction, but he connected with the Registry and made a deal via its Founders Program.

ICM is a private company and they can allocate domain names as they wish. It behoves them to make the most money, but it’s also important for them to have owners develop and market their websites.

By: Brad Mugford

Brad Mugford — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:30:32 +0000

The bottom line is what is happening with .XXX, is going to happen with virtually any new TLD.

You can say what you want, but these kind of private deals do look shady. It is well connected insiders cutting private deals.

The Average Joe never had a chance.

Brad

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:09:16 +0000

I’m with Gnanes

Selling off the top names before Sunrise looks shady

smart if you can get away with it but its still missleading the public.

By: BullS

BullS — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:53:45 +0000

Classic case of the rich gets richer and they always get the best girls.

Obama is right- tax those damn rich bastards!!