Porn Star Tweet Acquires Tattle.XXX and Remodels

2013 June 25 -- Las Vegas, NV -- Adult Entertainment Social Media powerhouse, Porn Star Tweet, announced today it's acquisition of the year old Adult Entertainment news and gossip web platform Tattle.XXX (http://www.tattle.xxx); as well as it's massive redesign of the site and the addition of new consumer focused sections for gay and niche verticals.

Tattle.XXX is an adult entertainment consumer focused news and gossip platform with a different, more raw and consumer minded, approach than traditional adult entertainment media. The brain child of Simon Peters who engaged Porn Star Tweet sister company Candid Brand to brand and develop the Tattle.XXX web platform, and later engaged Porn Star Tweet in a long term integration marketing agreement which instantly propelled Tattle to a player in consumer focused adult entertainment news market.

"Our ongoing relationship with Porn Star Tweet has been key to the success of Tattle.XXX as a platform", said Simon Peters. "As a company Porn Star Tweet added instant credibility and through Social Media added reach that simply could not have been accomplished any other way. The relationship has been one of growth, imagination and ultimately excitement about the industry and thinking of new ways to reach consumers."

Tattle.XXX officially opened in June 2012; only months after the freshly minted and highly controversial .XXX domain name extension had been launched by ICM Registry. Tattle quickly became one of the top consumer news sites in the adult space and remains one of .XXX’s largest original content news providers.

"We took some early knocks for embracing the .XXX platform from the Adult Entertainment Industry -- which like any other is somewhat frightened of change", continued Peters. "Ultimately the .XXX platform has proven to be one of our distinctions among other would-be adult entertainment news websites. We have seen a solid success utilizing the .XXX domain platform with top 10 organic results from search engines like Google, Bing and of course Search.XXX."

The more than four year old Porn Star Tweet is no stranger to developing media markets - having lead the charge for Adult Entertainment on platforms like Twitter and Facebook; while carving out a niche as a serious player in the industry. Porn Star Tweet is a regular feature at consumer expos like Exxxotica and the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo; as well as industry events including Internext, XBiz, and The Phoenix Forum.

"In conversations with Tattle.XXX as to where each of our products were headed it became very evident that our vision of the future and our paths were so parallel that getting on the same path together was just logical", said Pete Housley (@petehousley) of Porn Star Tweet. "This is not our first foray into media or publishing; my partner and brother Andrew and I have previously launched two successful print entertainment magazines in highly competitive markets. We're excited to include Tattle.XXX in our growing platform of media offerings and the abilities it brings us to help the companies and talent we work with on a daily basis."

In November 2012 Tattle.XXX appointed Pat Spinella (@PSpinPoker) as Editor-In-Chief, who will stay in an expanded role, Peters will also play a continue roll in the platform as a contributing writer. Denise Kraft (@_DeniseXXX), also of Porn Star Tweet, has taken the role of Editor for the newly expanded sections focused on Gay and Niche consumer news. Other sections and team members will be announced as expansion continues.

"We've watched Patrick become the heart and soul of Tattle.XXX", said Andrew Housley (@ahhousley) of Candid Brand. "We had the opportunity to work with him closely as we've been the development arm of Tattle over the past few months -- and despite his pension for being a little bit of a 'hipster' we could see no one more suited to continue being the man behind the curtain. Denise presently operates our expanding NaughtyPR division. As a result, her knowledge of the Gay, Tranny, BBW and Fetish markets is unmatched."

"As part of our acquisition we've just completed a comprehensive redesign of the entire Tattle.XXX platform", continued Andrew. "The site is fresh and continuously updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as we have built in monitoring systems and unique abilities for talent, agents and news makers to provide us with up to the minute information."

Together the companies will give consumers a unique look into the adult entertainment industry; while offering companies and talent the opportunity to reach all new consumer markets through it's unmatched unique abilities through traditional SEO and Social Media.

News and Press Releases may be submitted to news@tattle.xxx. Tips, gossip and story ideas may be submitted to tips@tattle.xxx. Consumers can follow Tattle on Twitter @TattleXXX or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tattleweb

Limited unique advertising and sponsorship opportunities are available, for more information contact Pete Housley phousley@naughtytweet.com.

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.XXX domains, The Not So Hot Numbers

DNN recently analyzed the top 1,000,000 most heavily trafficked and popular websites in the world, according to Alexa, and the results were shocking when we specifically looked at the now 1 year old active dot XXX extension. Our research revealed that only 61 developed websites that are using the .XXX extension placed inside the top 1 million of the most visited sites in the world. Many would expect these adult-oriented websites to be pulling in massive amounts of traffic and interest soon after launching, but apparently that isn’t the case so far.  [source]

One year later… Now what?

The .XXX extension, a sponsored top level domain operated by ICM Registry has been live for a year now, as was originally reported on April 15, 2011, which is when .XXX was added to the root servers and domains such as Sex.XXX and Porn.XXX were now resolving as live sites on the web, readily available to be accessed as any other extension, all over the world. Dot XXX domain names have been available for anyone to register and develop since December 6, 2011, after the sunrise and land-rush phases concluded which were held from September 7 – November 25, 2011. The registry operator also recently announced that it will be applying for the .Sex, .Adult and .Porn TLDs.

Earlier this month ICANN and the ICM Registry released .XXX domain registration stats and the magic number was said to be 215,835. That number represents how many .XXX domains ICM Registry had under its management as of April 6, 2012 when the press release went out. Out of all those registrations 132,859 are adult-oriented and a whopping 82,976 are non-adult defensive registrations, domains of celebrities and sensitive uses, and those ICM Registry reserved for future uses and sales under the .XXX Premium Names Program and the .XXX Adult Performer Program.

Stuart Lawley, the founder and CEO of ICM Registry LLC was interviewed by DomainSherpa about two weeks ago, where he shared some interesting data about the .XXX extension during the 1 hour video interview with Michael Cyger. We’ve highlighted below the few bits and pieces which stand out the most:

  • Currently .XXX is averaging 125 – 150 new registrations per day
  • $25 million in revenues in the 4th quarter for ICM Registry
  • Around 132,000 are normal registrations, which they classified as “recurring revenue domains”
  • Actual number of “built out sites” that they are aware of and can acknowledge is 27,555 at this point

Lawley went on to highlight some of the most expensive and “premium” triple X domains sold to date, which were Gay.XXX for $500,000, Fetish.XXX for $300,000, Shemales.XXX for $200,000, Toys.XXX for $125,000, Sexy.XXX for $100,000, Dating.XXX for $100,000, FootFetish.XXX for $89,000. In a more recent interview with Bloomberg just this past weekend Lawley mentioned that they also just sold Movies.XXX for $100,000.

Lack of any “real” developments…

Now it’s only been approximately 5 month’s that the general public have had the opportunity to freely register any available .XXX domain that they desire, at any one of their favorite domain registrar’s such as Go Daddy or Register.com for example, and then be able to immediately develop their domain in any way they choose.  We would not have thought that only 61 domains in total would be ranking inside the top 1,000,000 most visited sites in the world. That number was suppose to be exponentially higher by all accounts even a few month’s in, which we now are well into 2012, however reality says otherwise.

It is still very early on in the game as some would argue for this year old extension, but the numbers and data which DNN uncovered speak for itself as far as development of these newly available domains go. The concrete data shows that there is a huge disconnect somewhere. For the ICM Registry and hopeful .XXX domain investors that have spent $80 – $100 on average per registration, it is nothing really to get overly excited about, so far into this journey.

Many .XXX domains have been registered at this point, that is old news already. Some have been developed of course, most commonly as YouTube style video portals serving up adult content. Very few of the sites using the DOT XXX extension are taking off though and generating the buzz and activity that a website requires in order to become profitable and a success over the long run.

This begs the question, does the new .XXX extension really help you if you are running an adult oriented website, or is it going to do just the opposite and backfire at a certain point, and hurt your online image, website traffic, etc.? Well established companies from the adult industry and the thousands of TGP/Tube/Freebie adult site operators don’t seem to be rushing to switch over their existing sites to the newly available .XXX domains.

.XXX has a long way to go…

For those wondering about some comparisons, we’ve got that for you too. It’s been two years since the .CO extension was re-launched, making a huge splash within the domainer community and generating a ton of buzz in the mainstream world. The “hip and new” ccTLD which is operated by .CO Internet S.A.S  has been unrestricted (available for anybody to register throughout the world) since July of 2011, and it currently has 1,367 domains inside the top 1,000,000 according to Alexa.com.

More than half of the sites found in Alexa’s comprehensive ranking of the top 1,000,000 sites in the world are using the dot COM (.com) extension, 542,769 sites to be exact.

It’s highly unlikely, without a major paradigm shift, that .XXX or any other newly introduced extension in the near future will ever dominate Alexa’s list. Other new gTLD extensions that plan to roll out an extension targeting a niche (like .xxx) or a broader-based audience (like .co) should take heed of the growth patterns evident here and plan accordingly.

 

A Call to Unite the Industry Against .XXX

Mike South is calling out the industry and saying Lets Get Together On .XXX

[source] There has been some issues regarding XBiz and support of .xxx on their part and maybe they helped and maybe they didn’t and ASACP was all for it and now they are all against it and so on.

XBiz has asked me to be either a speaker or on a panel at the XBiz Summit in Miami and I am inclined to accept, whatever the past is XBiz is clearly no longer supporting .xxx.  They refuse to take ads from them as do I. If XBiz and I can help to educate and make positive changes in this industry I welcome that opportunity.

My proposal is that we all step it up, we never wanted .XXX and we can rid our industry of this scourge. here are some ideas that hopefully we can all agree to implement.  I agree to do so.

  1. Do not buy any .XXX domains and don’t pay to reserve them. .XXX is already falling rapidly in terms of use, most of the registrations were defensive, but remember Stuart Lawley makes a lot of money on those defensive registrations.
  2. Do not accept any advertising for anything .xxx, this includes websites, domain registrars etc
  3. If you are an adult site, do not allow any affiliates to use a .xxx domain (Manwin has implemented this one already, as have I.) Doing so immediately closes your account and forfeits any money you may have coming.
  4. Do not run a press release or any positive article about .xxx or anyone affiliated with .xxx.  Sorry Stormy Daniels and Nina Mercedez you sold us out, if you fuck up I will gladly point it out, If you win an academy award for your latest movie, my readers won’t read about it. Same for you Shafta and your stupid fucking awards.
  5. Your company will terminate any business relationship with anyone be paid to support .xxx.  In other words Nina and Stormy you are dead to us.
  6. If you are a fan and you support this industry, don’t patronize any .xxx site ever.

Plain and simple, for once lets all stand together and rid ourselves of a scourge on our industry.

Here at LukeFord.com we join the cause and say ……

  • We will not buy a .XXX domain name.
  • We will not accept any advertising from any .XXX websites.
  • We will not run press releases for any .XXX website.

The dot XXX people using Jesse Jane to pimp their shit

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.

 

 

 

The down and dirty truth about the dot xxx scam

Take all the PR hype out of the mix and just read this one story and you’ll see exactly why so many people hate those .xxx people and how they are willing to MAYBE auction of YOUR trademarked name at a future date for a premium price.  We’ve said all along it’s a scam and now here is just one more bit of proof.  [source]
Before I start my rant feel free to tell me I should never have bothered with .xxx – I know now that is just what I should have done…Having been completely taken in by the registry’s sales pitch and in the hope of securing ‘my’ domains, I went ahead and followed their procedures… FOOL!

I am aware how the majority of you feel about this process and so won’t expect any sympathy, I just want to document this in case anyone else is even considering buying (or trying to buy) theirs.

I ‘pre-reserved’ – now this is being called ‘expressed an interest in’- ‘my’.xxx domain. I joined the ‘sponsored adult community’ – yes I know… MUG!

I have owned and operated janeyweb.com since 2000. I also own a large suite of top level domains (.coms and .co.uks as we are UK based) most of which contain janeyweb or janey in them.

My company trades as Janey Web Productions Ltd. My stage name is Janey Web.

Our registrar secured one .xxx domain with no problem – www.janeysweb.xxx – this in fact is a name we did not oringinally ‘express an interest’ in, we just decided to get it as we use the .com as a pay site.

We were then told by the registrar that janeyweb.xxx AND the second domain we were ‘interested in’ were blocked so they couldn’t buy them for us.

ICM confirmed that these domains were on their “Premium List”.

This means that they are not available in Sunrise A even though I own the top level domains. They MAY be up for auction in November (but they MAY NOT), or we can wait for Landrush in December if someone else didn’t already get them or if the registry actually decide to release them at all!

I asked the registrar to refund the domain we have secured as I do not want to do business with ICM any longer – in fact they have stopped corresponding with me despite never once answering all of my questions, including whether someone else had ‘expressed an interest’ in the domains – this I understood would be the only reason I wouldn’t get them straight away under sunrise A.

The registrar says they cannot refund the registration fee according to their T&Cs, but as we are a long term customer they’ll part refund it as a goodwill gesture…

So I am out of pocket, left with a domain we don’t want and without the ones that I did want – sorry ‘expressed an interest in’ – YEP, SUCKER!

Anybody else been screwed…?

Thanks all.