I can remember the time I heard the story about the porn star who tried to register her trademarked name with .xxx and was told she couldn’t. It was considered a premium domain name that would soon be up for auction and she would have to try and win it. It was that day I knew the people who ran .xxx were pieces of shit.
Today they take it one step further.
They specifically are making use of trademarked names like Jesse Jane and Riley Steele to promote the dot xxx services. These domain names were being forwarded to a promotion to use the .xxx services.
Type in any random domain name like blahlhlh.xxx and you get nothing. So it’s a clear and calculated attempt to profit from their trademarked names.
They have done the same with mikesouth.xxx
Of course all of this came to light when it was revealed xbiz.xxx has been sold to someone else despite the fact that xbiz.com actually owns the XBIZ trademark and has since April of 2006.
ICM has been a member of the XBIZ.net site for awhile now has yet to make a comment.
The owner of XBIZ will only say that domain name has been cyberquatted and that they won’t accept money for advertising from .xxx nor anyone promoting .xxx domain names for sale.