We understand the importance of implementing new ways to offer our customers previously registered premium domain names that are for sale by their owners. That’s why we’ve partnered with Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace.

Why Sedo? Partnering with Sedo was a great opportunity to provide direct access to the largest inventory of registered domains (over 15 million) and domain sellers.

Here’s how it works. Visit Domain.com, and search for a domain as you normally would. Now, instead of just seeing the word “Taken,” you’ll see the owner’s listed selling price (if they’ve posted the domain for sale through Sedo). If it’s the name you want, and the price sounds right, you’ll be able to make your purchase directly through your Domain.com account.

If you have any questions about this new service, please don’t hesitate to give Customer Support a call at 360-449-8458.

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The new 1&1 Domain Order App runs on iPhone, iPod Touch and Android-based Smartphones. Downloads are available for free under the following links:

- iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-1-domains/id468630810

- Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.oneandone.de.domainordering&hl=en

The free app is very easy to use. After downloading it from Apple iTunes or Google Android Market, a customer only needs to register with their 1&1 customer ID and password. Then he or she can just order a domain when on the go – for instance, while one is traveling to a meeting. The availability of the domain will be checked through an automatic “Who is” query integrated into the app.

1&1 Internet holds more than 11 million domains in its high performance data centers and therefore is one of the most successful domain registrars in the world. Within 1&1’s many special offers, many domains are greatly reduced in price. For example, a Top Level Domain such as .com, is available for $ 0.99 a year.

Websites, Web hosting, and Web marketing. Easy as 1&1. Find more information at www.1and1.com.

About 1&1 Internet, Inc.:
1&1 Internet, Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $ 3 billion. 1&1 was founded in 1988 and hosts more than 11 million domain names, while more than 70,000 servers run on the company’s five state-of-the-art, green data centers. 1&1’s global community is approximately 10 million customer contracts strong. The company’s North American headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-GO-1AND1.

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Yes, we do plan on selling .XXX domains when they become available.

Read on to learn why.

Background on .XXX

ICANN has debated and delayed the creation of .XXX for years, but in late March they finally decided to allow it. During the debate back and forth, various pro-family groups came out against it, saying it would lead to the proliferation of obscene content online. At the same time, other pro-family groups came out in favor of .XXX with the reasoning that it would allow for greater filtering of adult content so that it becomes easier to block, etc. Many adult industry groups also expressed concerns with .XXX, fearing that there might be a push to restrict all adult content to only those domains rather than the .COM, .NET, and other domains currently in use today for adult content.

With all the various positions for or against .XXX, ICM Registry (the registry that will manage .XXX) is moving forward on releasing the new TLD with a focus on “promoting online responsibility” and making it clear that adult sites will not be forced to use .XXX, but instead will be encouraged to utilize good business practices including safeguarding children from adult content.

Why Domain.com Will Offer .XXX

While some competitors are busy shooting elephants and filming their next racy commercials that could probably use their own .XXX domain, we are thinking about ways to improve the Internet for both users and content creators. Adult content will continue to exist online regardless of whether or not .XXX is introduced, but .XXX will help segment that content so that those who don’t want to view it or should not view it can filter it out.

At Domain.com, we strive to help reduce spam and low-quality sites, improve online safety, provide relevant information to visitors, and improve the organization and categorization of websites. .XXX will help in all of these categories, because it, along with the upcoming imminent launch of many new TLDs, will help to structure and segment the web so that visitors have context for what to expect on a website before they even visit. In this case, more options is better, and new TLDs will aid in direct navigation to websites as well as providing indicators to search engines and search engine users of content type. Just as you wouldn’t visit a .XXX site expecting a blog about healthy eating, you wouldn’t visit a .FOOD site expecting adult content.

We see .XXX as just one of many TLDs coming, and we want to offer as many of them as possible as long as it makes business sense for us to do so. We don’t want to set a precedent of limiting customers’ options when they purchase domains, so offering .XXX is just one step towards offering customers a huge variety of TLDs to find the one that’s the right fit for their site.

While .XXX is likely to be one of the more controversial new TLDs coming out, we’re excited to be able to offer our customers an even greater number of options for their websites.

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While a first blush it might seem that it makes sense to have a domain extension that segregates adult content – it simply won’t work. Besides the fact that literally hundreds of thousands of adult sites are already established on other domain extensions, having a simple filter that excludes the .xxx domains won’t prevent those interested in seeking it out and viewing the content. That is because every domain name can be translated into its underlying IP address in order to view the content. All that a person wanting to get around the filter has to do is search by IP or access a directory which translates the domain name into an IP address – then type that in.

Also – as mentioned above – every single adult content site created to date resides on a top level domain extension other than .xxx. So that means in order to use the .xxx extension for a site, the entire website along with databases, images and written content must be moved to a new account. Anyone who has ever had to move even a modestly large website knows that it is a big task – and not one that you would enter into lightly. Daniel Foster is technical director at UK web hosting company 34SP.com and explains, ”Moving a website, while not uncommon does require backing up and copying the entirety of the website. This alone may deter users from moving a website. Additionally, any move to a new domain name will require DNS propagation. That means the site may not be available for up to 24 hours after the move. This is another deterrent to moving.”

So if filtering adult content probably won’t work, why approve the domain extension at all? There is one simple reason: money. Big money.

The new .xxx domain extension will be administered and managed by ICM Registry. That is the company that ICANN contracted for the job. On the homepage of the ICM Registry website there is a counter in the upper right which is entitled, ”.XXX Domains Pre-Reserved”. That counter is up to 305,733 as of the writing of this article. If you combine that piece of data with the wholesale price of each .xxx domain – $ 60 – then you arrive at a guaranteed $ 18 million of revenue and growing each day.

The dollars will only go up from here. This is why: every large brand will need to register the .xxx version of their current brand name. The obvious example is The Walt Disney Company. Disney can’t take the chance that disney.xxx gets registered by anyone other than Disney. Similarly disneyland.xxx, mickeymouse.xxx, etc. You get the picture. Every mainstream brand now has to defensively protect their brands against exploitation via the .xxx top level domain.

Considering that there are currently nearly 130 million active domains in use, the upside for .xxx seems considerable. So maybe ICANN knew what they were doing after all.

.XXX Domains Approved

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