
"Full details of this process, and of the X-strikes-and-you're-out process..."
Surely you mean "XXX-strikes and you're out"?
Pornographers and brand owners can expect to pay between $75 and $650 to register .xxx domain names, newly published registrar pricing schemes have revealed. Trademark owners concerned about having their brands associated with online pornography may be hit especially hard by the forthcoming domain launch, according to reports …
Well, yes, and *Disney* presumably know that, but the XXX registrar presumably is hoping that others don't.
(Actually, in any *sane* world, it would be possible to set up disney.xxx and not worry about Walt's lawyers, on the grounds that only a blithering idiot would believe that it was anything to do with the magical kingdom. But I digress. Now back to planet Earth...)
I think it seems a lot because we see porn free. At least I do.
The people that make it don't though - they see a 20 minute video as costing $10k in 'actors', camera crew, equipment, makeup artists... 10 videos like that to launch the site is a hundred thousand.
For pirate... sorry user uploaded streaming sites, it might seem like more, but I'd guess if they are popular they make a bomb.
"Disney, for example, will be able to pay a one-time fee in order to have disney.xxx resolve to a standard place-holder page managed by the registry."
What is wrong with simply allowing the domain to NOT resolve AT ALL? NXDOMAIN error?
This sounds like more registrar dain-bramage. Rather than letting software detect that there IS no "disney.xxx" and move on, let's confuse it by having EVERYTHING resolve - just point it to a squatter^Wdomain registrar landing site and rake in the ad revenue.
And what happens if I register dirty.xxx, and the create sub-domains like disney.dirty.xxx, ariel.disney.dirty.xxx, etc.? Especially if I do it though a shell corporation someplace where The Mouse cannot easily sue?
> What is wrong with simply allowing the domain to NOT resolve AT ALL? NXDOMAIN error?
have you been hiding with osama bin laden for the last umpteen years? it's clearly escaped your notice that most isps have been fucking with dns responses for years, nxdomains in particular.
there's already a massive business in sitefinder-like scams where isps rewrite nxdomain replies to redirect their customers to a landing page with ads ('natch) and portals to "did you mean fubar.com, not foobar.xxx?" links, reskinned google home page, etc, etc.
what the .xxx guys are proposing to do will stop this sort of dns fuckery. maybe. but i'd put money on them making ad revenue off the web proxy or redirect at www.disney.xxx.