Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely.
It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn.
Really Useful launched the first ever .xxx domain Casting.xxx. That was covered in several non adult publications such as The Register.
JT had Stuart Lawley paste his comments from GFY.com in the comments and then made a post here. The notable takeaway from all of this was that JT said it was Frank Schilling and his video and take on the new gtld program. After watching the video JT said, “This video was fundamental in me embarking on the recent spending spree”
Of course many wonder why someone would spend this kind of money where many other domainers and adult companies are not. That is a very legitimate question. One that JT goes to great lengths to explain.
The following is the post JT made on GFY and then that is followed by his first comment on thedomains.
“With hindsight, I would have bought a lot more .xxx domains when I was part of the founders program back in 2011. The reason I didn’t was because my company had not launched any websites at that point and I could not afford more. The first 2 sites I launched in September 2011 were the first ever .xxx sites to go live, namely casting.xxx and orgasms.xxx. The revenues generated paid back the domain purchases within 6-8 weeks of launch. Since then, the revenues from those 2 .xxx domains enabled me to launch new site after new site. In my network I now have 17 of the highest rated websites of all time on the tubes. On the .xxx extension, in addition to the 2 mentioned above, I have mom.xxx and StrapOn.xxx
I have over the past 12-18 months, been adding to my collection of .xxx domain names, with some high profile ones being announced to the industry. Prior to me buying tube.xxx and tubes.xxx for $750k, I purchased teen.xxx for $400k, and a deal for BDSM.xxx, Mature.xxx, PublicSex.xxx which stood me in $200k. I also own the domains massage.xxx, Czech.xxx, party.xxx, erotic.xxx, callgirl/s.xxx, girlfriends.xxx, audition.xxx, agents.xxx, escortagency.xxx, kiss.xxx, 360.xxx cloud.xxx, mega.xxx and around 150 others.…
