According to AP:
80,000 XXX domains were sold in presale and many companies like Pepsi and Nike lined up to purchase adult domains. The University of Kansas reportedly just paid $3,000 for a variety of XXX URLs.
GoDaddy sells them at $99/year. So that’s 8 million dollars already. Porn businesses have already indicated that they will not be using XXX because they don’t want their sites to be filtered out of browsers and search services.
So ultimately all that has happened is pseudo-extortion. It’s the same as a street prostitute asking for $99 to not stand outside a shopfront.
The only plus I can foresee is that those who bought generic porn XXX domains might use them to be legitimate gateways to the dark side of the web. Yeah right!
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