Reglikedomain industry desk

More premiums and offers free domain names through partnership — .XXX sells

Sales keep coming in for .xxx in its third year.

.XXX continues to sell premium domain names for prices that fresh TLD operators would love to obtain.

The firm recently sold three more .xxx domain names, counting extreme.xxx, for a total of over $150,000.

.XXX registry ICM Registry also disclosed a partnership with ModelCentro for Models.xxx. ModelCentro runs a hosted system for fan sites. Verified models using the ModelCentro platform are able to register one .XXX domain free of charge.

This is a smart way for the registry to get domain names into the hands of people that will use and promote them. Fresh TLD registries ought to do similar partnerships. Every domain that gets put to use is an advertisement for the top level domain.

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