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Icann to greenlight the .xxx porn domain
INTERNATIONAL REGULATING BODY the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will create a .xxx Internet domain suffix for adult websites.
According to Reuters, the Icann board is expected to make the announcement sometime today. The domain suffix will operate like .com, .org or .co.uk, only the .xxx domain will take web surfers to the land of adult entertainment, that is, pornography.
The US company ICM Registry has been petitioning Icann for several years to establish the .xxx top level domain but up until now without success.
"If expedited due diligence results are successful, then staff will proceed into contract negotiations with ICM," ICann's general counsel John Jeffrey told delegates.
Icann had originally given the idea of a .xxx domain the thumbs-up four years ago but it was shouted down by soap-box conservative pressure groups. However, an independent body ruled the pressure tactics unfair and Icann was given a chance to re-evaluate the proposition. µ
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Religions have nothing against sex. Religions acknowledge that sex is an essential part of humanity.
It is the religious extremists, often sexually frustrated in some way, that have big issues with sex.
And the .xxx domain will not change anything. Anyone who is incessantly ranting against sex is a closet fetishist of some kind that scours porn sites in shame. They'll be there.
Along with, of course, those who will consider it their duty to bring "The Word" in such heathen places.
This might be nice to run a forum on, you'd nicely block all the christians and other religions, and uptight people, and apple users obviously, since they can't reach your site.
Would be pretty sweet huh?
I'm going to sell Plax mouthwash at www.pla.xxx.
The US Gov put pressure on ICANN just like last time, proving why it needs to be independent.
And the easiest way to push it along is offer current sites priority under the new tld either cut price or free. eg www.pornstarswhatever.com gets offered www.pornstarswhatever.xxx
Most have age confirmation pages, I'm sure they would get behind .xxx if offered under the right terms. The wrong thing to do would be to try and somehow enforce it, as that would be unworkable and lead to some person in an office somewhere projecting their moral standards over what counts as porn and what counts as education material. Carrot not the stick.
I just imagine how easy it is to set up web filters and spam filters
I hope they put DNSSec on this from the beginning. I'd hate for my favorite xxx sites to be hijacked and redirected to a non xxx site...
But we know how this is going to end. Any site with a .com name is going to register the same name in .xxx and keep the two going simulatenously. Nothing will change.
"only the .xxx domain will take web surfers..." -- Well, I doubt that it'll reduce the number of links drawing one in, and I doubt that it will in practice restrict the domains, looks impossible to enforce. Might have been a good idea twenty years ago, so that the practice was put in place before the situation got out of control, but now, site operators aren't going to respect no stinking guidelines, and there's too many of them to regulate.
But does create an obvious "need" that ICANN get some enforcement muscle, and I *do* predict that.