In the News

  • Porn Rivals Make Nice After Antitrust Fight
    May 2, 2013

    It’s not quite make-up sex, but two of the more prominent names in the pornography business have announced an amicable end to their bitter legal fight. The truce follows the arrest on tax charges of the head of one of the combatants.

  • Unprecedented Prices for New .XXX Registrations
    May 1, 2013

    ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, announced that new .XXX domain registrations created from May 1 through May 31, 2013 will be available at .COM prices.

  • Manwin, ICM Registry Ink Settlement Deal
    May 1, 2013

    Manwin and ICM Registry jointly announced today that they have settled their legal disputes with an agreement made public.

  • ICM Registry: .Sex, .Porn, .Adult Bound for Approval
    April 15, 2013

    ICM Registry’s applications for .sex, .porn and .adult are bound for approval now that the objection period for generic TLDs is closed, said Stuart Lawley, who runs the company’s .XXX registry as president.

  • Harvard.xxx a Brand Cautionary Tale as Web Adds New Names
    April 15, 2013

    Harvard University paid as much as $299 to register the last time the World Wide Web’s global overseer added a domain name to familiar ones including .com and .net. Rather than seeking a new opportunity, it signed up to keep harvard.xxx from being used as a porn site.

  • SexGoesMobile Purchases Mobile.xxx Domain Name
    February 4, 2013

    SexGoesMobile has acquired the domain name Mobile.xxx to provide live cams, video and dating in 10 languages. The site will be dedicated to providing the first all-encompassing .XXX destination for mobile devices, according to .XXX operator ICM Registry, which disclosed the deal Monday.

  • Is the .XXX Domain the Playbook for a New Generic TLD Registry?
    December 13, 2012

    Launched about a year ago, to plenty of questions and criticism, the .xxx domain, operated by ICM Registry, has evolved into a totally unusual offering in the domain name space, with a handful of unique characteristics and what is looking more and more like a model to be emulated by the new generic TLDs that will be arriving in the next year or two.

  • Google makes it harder to find porn — and .XXX loves it
    December 13, 2012

    Google took the porn away — and the web’s dirty side loves it.

  • Google’s decision to block explicit images is a huge win for Bing & Search.xxx
    December 12, 2012

    Google has modified its popular image search to block many explicit pictures, a move that could be a big win for competing search engines.
     
    While you used to be able to turn SafeSearch off to easily find questionable material, Google now only lets you “filter explicit images” or “report offensive images.” As you can see in the image above, a search for the word “porn” brings up some questionable material but nothing explicit.

  • ICM Registry Launches .XXX Domain Discount Tied to Search Marketing Credit
    November 1, 2012

    ICM Registry, the operator of the .xxx domain launched a discount program this week, offering customers registering .xxx domain names discounts on their domain registrations in the form of credit toward its recently-launched search engine and ad program.

  • “Free” .xxx domains with PornWords promotional credit
    November 1, 2012

    ICM Registry announced this morning that it is offering a $75 advertising credit to existing .xxx domain owners and anyone who registers a domain by January 31.

  • Meet The Man Behind The Google Of Porn
    October 31, 2012

    Did you know that there’s a section of the population using the Internet to look at porn? Some of them are probably even doing it right now.

  • Buy that porn domain name you always wanted
    October 24, 2012

    ICM Registry, the company that launched the Internet’s first Top Level Domain (TLD) porn search engine, Search.xxx, has released a trove of more than 1,000 .XXX domains for sale.

  • New porn search engine has potential to revolutionize billion-dollar industry
    October 2, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — As an industry that is worth a staggering $10 billion domestically and $90 billion worldwide, it’s astonishing that Syracuse University doesn’t have a major in it: porn.

  • First XXX-dedicated search engine opens for business
    September 29, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — With the advent of the new .xxx top-level domain (TLD) comes the need for a new search engine dedicated to porn. Or does it?

  • Sticky Keyboard Epidemic Saturates The Globe As Porn-Only Search Engine Goes Live!
    September 29, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Tired of looking for porn on Google and getting bogged down by all those Safe For Work sites?

  • Search.xxx Porn Search Engine Launches (Because It’s So Hard To Find Porn Online)
    September 27, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — In case anyone has any difficulty finding porn on the Internet, there’s now a search engine exclusively for smut.

  • New search engine for porn advances master plan for .xxx economy
    September 27, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The company that administers the .xxx domain just launched a porn-only search engine, Search.xxx, after a year of development. The search engine is ostensibly an effort to promote the new X-rated ecosystem of .xxx sites while countering attempts by mainstream search engines to de-emphasize porn in search results.

  • Registry Launches Search Engine for Porn
    September 27, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — You know what the Internet needs? A search engine for porn. Well, Internet, your wish has been granted. The ICM Registry today took the wraps off Search.xxx, which will allow users to more easily sort through the adult content available on the .XXX domain.

  • Internet to get porn search engine
    September 27, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Porn will now have its own search engine on the Internet — and there’s nothing the U.S. government can do about it.

  • Porn Ghetto Or Safe Haven? .xxx Gets A Search Engine
    September 26, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — When Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) granted sole operator status for the .xxx generic top-level domain to the ICM Registry, not everyone in the porn industry saw opportunities.

  • Investment Company Secures 40 Premium .XXX Domains
    September 25, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Luxembourg company backed by a number of investors and entrepreneurs has secured more than 40 .XXX premium names and has plans to make a major impact in the adult entertainment space.

  • ICM Registry Taps New Legal Counsel
    August 29, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — .XXX operator ICM Registry has tapped the law firm of Gordon & Rees as its new legal counsel.

  • ICM: 140K Actual, 80K Defensive .XXX Registrations Logged
    August 8, 2012

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — ICM Registry, operator of the .XXX top-level domain, says it has logged to date 140,000 actual and 80,000 defensive registrations.

  • Conan.XXX, O’Brien’s New Porn Site, Is Real And Amazing (VIDEO)
    June 27, 2012

    Last year, the website extension .xxx was launched with the explicit purpose to give similarly explicit content a place to live on the Internet. (In other words, it’s for porn.) But forget about “naked people having sex,” or whatever filth is found on these sites, because we’re most excited about the newest entry into the .xxx family: Conan.XXX.

  • The New Republic of Porn
    June 21, 2012

    Stuart Lawley navigates Bear’s Club Drive in his midnight sapphire Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, a $464,000, 3-ton, 12-cylinder land yacht so well-engineered that ensconced in its butter-soft leather, one barely senses motion at all.

  • Grooby Productions Launches Ladyboy.xxx
    June 14, 2012

    BURBANK, CA — Grooby Productions has added Ladyboy.xxx to its ever-growing collection. A ladyboy site featuring solo and hardcore content from new producers, this is their second .xxx TLD since launching Shemale.XXX in late 2011.

  • Domain names may expand to .sex, .porn, .adult
    June 11, 2012

    Web domain names may get a little racier.

     

    ICM Registry, the company that brought .xxx to the Web last December, is applying to add .sex, .porn and .adult to its list of suggestive suffixes in next week’s expansion of the Internet’s generic top-level domains — the .com ending of a Web address.

  • Google: .XXX Will Be Treated Like Any Other Top-Level Domain
    Dec 7 2011

    LOS ANGELES—A few months ago, AVN conversed with Google on the subject of how the leading search engine will treat search results for .xxx.

  • Public .XXX Domain Registration Starts Today

    Dec 6 2011

    If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on a .XXX domain, now is your chance. At 11am Eastern today, the ICM Registry will open registration for .XXX domains to the public.


   

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