What do you think will happen to adult .COM's after .XXX arrives?

[sc32803]

I was thinking about what will happen to adult sites with the .COM extension after .XXX arrives. Putting myself in the place of the typical porn surfer, I think they will automatically start using the .XXX domain for any porn site they think of. For example, if someone wants gay sex or big dicks they will probably enter gaysex.xxx or bigdicks.xxx to see what comes up. I'll bet that even established sites like Sean Cody or Randy Blue will have people typing in their names with the .XXX domain instead of .COM.

What do you think? Will .COM adult sites see a big drop in traffic after .XXX comes out? Will .COM adult site names lose their value? Could this be yet another hit on small affiliate marketers since the mega sites will probably scoop up all the best .XXX names before the little guys can get them?

[Gin]

I guess people still will use .com's as well as they now use .net's, .org's, .info's etc.

[Lee]

Its going to take YEARS and YEARS before anything overtakes .com, in the past few years i can think of at least 2 or 3 new TLDs that were touted as the next '.com' yet none of them ever picked up any significant ground.

.XXX will be just another flash in the pan, people will register the good names, forget about it, then go back to .com.

Regards,

Lee

[HunkyLuke]

I suspect .com will still rule, but people will buy .xxx versions of their domains just to secure them

[maxx68]

secure and redirects I suspect.