The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) a not-for-profit organization which was set up as part of ICM application to operate the .XXX registry has now published on its site, its tax returns for 2011 and 2012.
In 2012 IFFOR had income of $267,740.
“This income is derived entirely from the $10 per resolving domain commitment that ICM Registry has made to fund IFFOR.”
“The increase of $58,880 in 2012 is due to an increase in the number of resolving dot-xxx domain names.”
In 2011 IFFOR had an income of $208,860.
“This income is derived entirely from the $10 per resolving domain commitment that ICM Registry has made to fund IFFOR.”
Back in February we posted about IFFOR’s 2011 return and the fact that it only took in some $208,000 all paid by ICM Registry at $10 per domain for RESOLVING .XXX domain names meaning that .XXX only had some 20,800 resolving domain names which led us to ask “Are 90% of all .XXX registrations defensive”.
We based our 90% figure on the statement of Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry made to the effect there were 250,000 .XXX domain names under management at ICM and IFFOR’s payment on their 2011 tax return that represented only 20,800 domains.
At the time we got some push back with some saying our numbers were way off and we couldn’t make the conclusion from one year’s tax return.
But now that we have two tax returns of IFFOR published it becomes pretty clear that somewhere between 20,700 and 26,700 .XXX domain names resolved for IFFOR tax years.
Under the 2012 numbers there are some 26,700 resolving .XXX domain names.
We know that ICM reach a high of about 140,000 registered .XXX domain names in the December 2012 report ICM filed with ICANN.
However that 140,000 figure did not include any of the approximate 80,000 ten year blocks ICM sold to trademark and other rights holders.
So out of the 220,000 domain names registered, including the 10 year blocks only 26,700 or so resolved and were paid by ICM to IFFOR.
We do know by its terms non of the 10 year block domain names do not resolve.
With 190,000 non-resolving domain names, it still seem like an incredibly high percentage of defensive registration and certainly based on the 2012 numbers 85% of all registered .XXX domains Do not Resolve which is a huge percentage as well.…
