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In the first 24 hours of general availability, ICM sold 55,367 domains. Counting the landrush and sunrise periods, the first day of general availability brought the total of domains sold to about 160,000.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/07/icm-xxx-1st-24-hours-of-ga-56000-registrations-a-total-of-160k-domain-names-registered/ ICM xxx 1st 34 hours of GA 56000 registrations, TheDomains.com]</ref> It was estimated that on its first day, ICM brought in $3.3 million in revenue, with over half a million of that to be given to [[IFFOR|International Fund For Online Responsibility]] (IFFOR).<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/12/07/55367-xxx-domain-names-registered-in-first-24-hours/ 55367 xxx domain names registered in first 24 hours, DomainNameWire.com]</ref> On December 16, it was brought to light that only approximately 95,000 domain names existed in the .xxx root zone. Roughly 84,000 of the domains were defensive registrations, and 14,400 were registered by the adult entertainment community. Of this, 3,200 were parked at [[Domain Control]], and approximately 4,000 were parked at various other parking services. Thus, half of the community registrations were parked or for sale.<ref>[http://jl.ly/ICANN/xxxzone.html John R. Levine, Who's registering .XXX domains]</ref>
In the first 24 hours of general availability, ICM sold 55,367 domains. Counting the landrush and sunrise periods, the first day of general availability brought the total of domains sold to about 160,000.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/07/icm-xxx-1st-24-hours-of-ga-56000-registrations-a-total-of-160k-domain-names-registered/ ICM xxx 1st 34 hours of GA 56000 registrations, TheDomains.com]</ref> It was estimated that on its first day, ICM brought in $3.3 million in revenue, with over half a million of that to be given to [[IFFOR|International Fund For Online Responsibility]] (IFFOR).<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/12/07/55367-xxx-domain-names-registered-in-first-24-hours/ 55367 xxx domain names registered in first 24 hours, DomainNameWire.com]</ref> On December 16, it was brought to light that only approximately 95,000 domain names existed in the .xxx root zone. Roughly 84,000 of the domains were defensive registrations, and 14,400 were registered by the adult entertainment community. Of this, 3,200 were parked at [[Domain Control]], and approximately 4,000 were parked at various other parking services. Thus, half of the community registrations were parked or for sale.<ref>[http://jl.ly/ICANN/xxxzone.html John R. Levine, Who's registering .XXX domains]</ref>
===Alleged Contract Discrepancies===
In a January 2013 [[CircleID]] post, [[George Kirikos]] emphasized that ICANN needs to be much better at being clear and thorough in contract creation by analyzing a few apparent discrepancies in its contract with ICM. He notes that the language of the contract has ICM paying its sponsoring organization, [[IFFOR]], $10 for every $60 wholesale domain, but that should the wholesale price ever raise or lower from that point ICM would be responsible to pay 15% of the wholesale price. This means that should ICM raise the wholesale price by a penny in either direction it would then only be responsible for paying $9 to IFFOR. He goes on to note that this is to be paid per "resolving registration", and asks what exactly that entails. Given that so many of ICM's 250,000+ domains are rumored to be blocked these do not count as "resolving", but Mr. Kirikos asks about the many domains that ICM has parked for its own purposes, for which there is a [[Whois]] record and the domain technically resolves to a parked page. The unavailability of financial disclosures regarding the IFFOR payouts leaves this as speculation, though he concludes that it is unlikely ICM is paying IFFOR for its 100,000+ parked pages. The [http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130109_loopholes_and_ambiguities_in_contracts_that_icann_oversees/ entire post] reads more as a look at ICANN contract management skills than an attack on ICM Registry.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130109_loopholes_and_ambiguities_in_contracts_that_icann_oversees/ Loopholes and Ambiguities in Contracts, CircleID.com]Published & Retrieved 9 Jan 2013</ref>
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