.XXX just passed it's ONE year mark, did anyone make money with .XXX?

[A D]

.XXX just passed it's one year mark, did anyone make money with .XXX?

Please post your positive and negatives with .XXX.

Personally with I had 483 impressions, 140 searches and 36 clicks on 49 decent names for .XXX and made 80 cents.

Here are the names I have:

ADULTCLASSIFIED.XXX
ADULTJOB.XXX
ADULTMODEL.XXX
ADULTPERSONAL.XXX
ANALTOY.XXX
BALLGAGS.XXX
BLOWUPDOLL.XXX
BODYLOTIONS.XXX
BONDAGEKITS.XXX
CANDLE.XXX
CANDLES.XXX
CIRCUMCISION.XXX
CLITORALMASSAGERS.XXX
COLLARS.XXX
CROPS.XXX
DESENSITIZING.XXX
DNF.XXX DNFORUM.XXX
DOMINANTS.XXX
EDIBLES.XXX
EGGSBULLET.XXX
EGGSBULLETS.XXX
ENLARGEMENTPUMPS.XXX
EXTREMEBONDAGE.XXX
FEMALEESCORT.XXX
GSPOTS.XXX
HARDCOREMODEL.XXX
HARDCOREMODELS.XXX
INCALLS.XXX
LETTERS.XXX
MALEMASTURBATION.XXX
MALESEXMACHINES.XXX
MALESTRAPONS.XXX
MSOG.XXX
NIPPLECLAMP.XXX
NIPPLECLAMPS.XXX
NIPPLESTIMULATORS.XXX
NUDEWRESTLING.XXX
PADDLES.XXX
PENISEXTENSIONS.XXX
PLEASUREMASK.XXX
POTIONS.XXX
SEXSWINGS.XXX
SOFTCOREMODEL.XXX
SOFTCOREMODELS.XXX
SPANKINGTOYS.XXX
STIMULATOR.XXX
STIMULATORS.XXX
XXXMODEL.XXX

Now, I also did not develop any out.

How did the rest of you do?

Adam

 

[ekman77]

Didn't make a dime. Let all of them drop except FOP.xxx which is Free Online Porn. Didn't see many sales either.

 

[hugegrowth]

I only have one, CountryGirls, and not much to report about it. Might go for a white label site. When the new gtlds are rolled out people might get more used to these alternate extensions. I did notice a few decent .xxx sales throughout the past year.

 

[GeorgeK]

ICM Registry, registrars, and ICANN made money. :lol:

 

[A D]

ICM Registry, registrars, and ICANN made money. :lol:

That about sums it up.

Adam

 

[PRED]

I expected some noobs to be suckered in but amazed at experienced domainers who threw cash down the toilet on this

 

[Tia Wood]

I haven't had one request to develop a .xxx and haven't invested in any myself.

Still not as bad as .tel

 

[draggar]

I haven't had one request to develop a .xxx and haven't invested in any myself.

Still not as bad as .tel

Or .mobi?

Let the droppings begin!!!

 

[Tia Wood]

I'd rather own a .mobi than a .tel

If they were the last two domains on earth, that is.

 

[GeorgeK]

Keep an eye on:

http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

when the .xxx domains which are not renewed finally drop from the zone file (should be in a few weeks). I think most prospective new gTLD registry operators are working under the assumption that 70% to 80% of domains would be renewed annually (and even higher renewal rates for the "prime" domains). I believe those assumptions might have been very optimistic. It wouldn't surprise me if more than half the .xxx domains don't get renewed.

 

[A D]

I expected some noobs to be suckered in but amazed at experienced domainers who threw cash down the toilet on this

Frank Shilling is no noob and according to this he invested 7 figures.

http://www.elliotsblog.com/frank-schilling-took-risk-on-xxx-8017

Adam

 

[A D]

Keep an eye on:

http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

when the .xxx domains which are not renewed finally drop from the zone file (should be in a few weeks). I think most prospective new gTLD registry operators are working under the assumption that 70% to 80% of domains would be renewed annually (and even higher renewal rates for the "prime" domains). I believe those assumptions might have been very optimistic. It wouldn't surprise me if more than half the .xxx domains don't get renewed.

I think it will be a much higher drop rate than 70% especially with the renewals still over $100 a year.

Adam

 

[hugegrowth]

At $10 a reg they might need 70% renewals.

At $100 a reg, I imagine they need less. I could only get it down to around $70 with a Godaddy coupon.

I think .xxx will be ok for the good to great adult keywords and phrases, but after that what do you use it for? Same with the coming new gtlds, each will have a small pool of keywords that work well, then it drops of a cliff. Except for .web, which I think will do best.

 

[GeorgeK]

If they only had 40,000 registrations, their total registration revenues @ $50/yr per domain (recall that $10 of the $60 wholesale fee goes to IFFOR.org) would be $2 million/yr. Afilias, their back-end provider, would need to get paid out of that. If they have any "pay for placement" programs in place, i.e. marketing programs, with registrars, that would add to their expenses. Additional costs would include staff salaries, and fees paid for their malware scanning. They also face large legal bills due to the Manwin lawsuit.

It'll be very interesting to see what happens. They could drop prices, conceivably, as a strategy. I doubt they would invest millions to attempt to raise the profile of the TLD again, but that'd be another strategy.

 

[Mark Talbot]

... especially with the renewals still over $100 a year.

And anyone with 2 cells to rub together knows that price will drop like a rock pretty soon.

 

[!!amazingday!!]

Around 12 months ago I purchased 15 .XXX domains as a little test.
I paid $79.99 per domain so my total investment was around $1,200 USD.

One month later I got one offer of $100 on one of my .XXX domains which I declined.
Three months later I sold one of my .XXX domains on SEDO for $1,995 USD. (minus sedo commission I got around $1,695 USD transferred to my bank account)

After that no more offers or sales.

So basically in total I did make $495 profit but quite frankly I'm dropping my other 14 .XXX domains. The little interest there was in the beginning is completely gone now.

 

[stewie]

I personally do not own any .xxx and in general my rule is not to buy any of the new extensions...(notice i never said never)lol

I was bitten by the .mobi so it's : bad news/good news/ bad news

bad news- I bought too many
good news - I don't have any more
bad news- the damn .mobi made you register 2 years at a time in the start (greedy and sneaky) :frusty:

hopefully new members can learn from this...I wish when I was buying .mobi someone would have told me to stop. *to be honest they did ...I didn't listen ouch!!!

thanks to Adam and all those who post threads like these. Showing us bad outcomes can help us all, rather then the usually pump and dump stuff. Would be good to hear a few others chime in *hint hint

 

[Johnn]

I am underage and cannot buy any until next year (21 year old) so I have not lose anythin yet.

 

[DomainsInc]

I am underage and cannot buy any until next year (21 year old) so I have not lose anythin yet.

You only had to be 18.

 

[tetrapak]

Frank Shilling is no noob and according to this he invested 7 figures.

http://www.elliotsblog.com/frank-schilling-took-risk-on-xxx-8017

Adam

Rick Schwartz bought Flowers.mobi for $200,000. Recently it was sold for $5,000 to 1800Flowers.com... Everybody makes mistakes.