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 maes 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.
First, I am also 100% against .XXX. I want to make that clear.
You come up with some interesting suggestions, but you need to think a few of them through a bit more…:
You may have to revise #3 above – if you have money coming from affiliates you can’t simply forfeit it – UNLESS you make it clear that using .XXX after a certain DATE will be cause for forfeiture and closure – and even then if there is any $$ due…who gets it? That is almost an incentive for companies to keep affitiate money for themselves and use this as an excuse to do so.
In #4 above (“Do not run a press release or any positive article about .xxx or anyone affiliated with .xxx.”) the idea sounds good initially but, when you think of it, doing so will also toss the concept of the 1st Amendment – which keeps the industry alive – to the side by implying (that since we cannot write any POSITIVE articles about .XXX) that we can ONLY write article that are NOT positive. Good intentions, but nobody should tell anywhat what they can or cannot write. ALSO, Mainstream Media would have no reason to roadblock any articles about .XXX – and our silence when they do so would be damning “for the cause” on our part.
The rest are doable. Carefully.
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#1 Wromng its in my affiliate agreement and they sign off on it to be an affiliate so yes I can and yes I will
#2 Wrong again, the first amendment protects free press which means I can refuse to print anything I want to plain and simple. If Some Dumb Sell Out Whore wins a Nobel prize I am under no more obligation to run that than I am to run a press release saying she did her first anal with a dwarf.
I agree good thing your doing this for porn indusrty on matter Mike. I agree Stormy being stupid take part in .xxx thing. Special when look what benfits she would be getting from it. It good see some one from porn indusrty make stand on some thing been thron in side porn paw sent came long. Stormy going down hill in porn ever sents her personal life end up being show case on TMZ with all issues caused to her self. Nina Mercedez was sell out long before .xxx came long. Nina Mercedez does condsider her self porn star she more like modle that fucks for money kind thing.
You miss my point. I’m not talking about YOUR affiliate agreement; I am asking what happens to the average affiliate of an adult site who is on a site that, at some point in time, does as you suggest and decides to forfeit payment to affiliates who support .XXX ? If they had $$ in commissions already due them – not yet paid as we all know many hold back payment for a while – what happens to the $$ already due them prior to their policy change? I’m saying they can’t forfeit money due them for anything unpaid prior to that time that they ban connections with .XXX
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/11/2012 12:39 PM PST
ICM Registry Sticking it to Manwin; KeiranLee.XXX Appropriated
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Bad enough that Manwin is suing ICM Registry and its .XXX domain operation for running a leeching, money grabbing, unscrupulous shake down. [Their words.]
Bad enough that Manwin announced that it’s banned all activity between its brands and Internet sites registered with a .XXX TLD.
Bad enough that Manwin has kindly demanded all its affiliates not to do business with ICM Registry.
But ICM Registry hit a low blow when it acquired the domain name KeiranLee.XXX and is using it to re-direct traffic to its .XXX domain registration site. Lee is Manwin’s male contract performer.