This is going to sound ignorant, but can somebody tell me the reason for TLDs in the first place? I understand they originally were supposed to segregate the internet into governmental, commercial, organizational, etc spaces. But no restrictions were placed at all on who got what, so we ended up with whitehouse.com being porn.<p>So who benefits from yahoo having to buy yahoo.com, yahoo.net, yahoo.org, etc, instead of buying one domain called "yahoo"? It all just seems like a price gouging scheme at this point.
I am actually involved, right now, with securing a couple .xxx domains for a client. Although not an adult product, the client wants to protect their product name from being associated with adult content.<p>For the record, my client is happy to pay the large (compared to normal domain registrations) fee to keep their .xxx from resolving.
There is no point to a .xxx TLD. Its sole purpose is to extract wealth from an existing pool rather than create value. This is the textbook definition of rent-seeking.
First time learning of this. I am not concerned with the possibility of my domains being maliciously duplicated on .xxx by someone else; if this becomes a serious problem, I have little doubt Google et al will take care of it in the search returns.