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ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's
EyeMyke writes "As reported on News.com, ICANN has approved the .jobs and .travel domains, and is pending decision on .asia, .mail, .tel, and .xxx. One has to ask 'Will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?'" We've covered both of these domains before, but it would seem they are even more-approved now, or at least the process is important enough to warrant an official announcement from ICANN.
I don't really understand the point of a .xxx tld. You can usually tell from a domain name if you should be loading the url or not, it isn't like everything will be forced to use .xxx once the new tld exists.. unless..
.xxx is to force adult web sites into using it, how long until adult sites are sued into the ground for using other tlds? What if I'm running a french or italian language site with occasional boobies on it on a .com tld, would some tool force me onto a .xxx? Or even a .uk site?
.xxx is perhaps more stupid than the entire artificial tld scarcity bit.
If the point of
Blarg.
Thank you for pointing out :) .mil and .gov should be removed in my opinion because they are exclusive to the US while they should be available to other countries as well, or eliminated altogheter.
Make no mistake, dot triple X is very dangerous. This fight has been fought before, but today without the conscience of the net's early pioneers .. we are heading into trouble.
.xxx, however start up pr0n sites will realize it's easier to market the website with dot triple x. This is where the positive aspects of dot triple X end. Then the negative scenario emerges, some parent will stumble across playboy.com and their kid who they're supposed to be watching will come into the room and see it .. and they will claim the kid is traumatized for life now.
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.. "All websites that contain indecent or pornographic content must be delegated to .XXX"
.. Massive number of religious people protest the lawsuit saying God wouldn't want pornography to exist .. ACLU loses .. the supreme court finds no reason why websites cant be forced into .XXX, after all .. the argument will say .. strip clubs can be forced into designated areas.
.XXX, well some content is immoral and distasteful .. maybe those will be forced into .XXX or some other domain ".pariah" ? who knows.
.. the same kid walks in on this.
.XXX and .pariah content to avoid lawsuits.
.XXX websites. This tracking information will only be archived, so as to not violate the fourth amendment. Only in cases where crime is suspected will the data be looked at.
If the dot triple X domain is approved, the following worst case scenario is possible.
I don't believe it will actually happen because so far, the people have always held freedom of speech up to be very important.
Note, this is a worst case scenario. I don't believe it's all that likely to happen.
Popular websites, such as playboy.com, will not switch to
Then you have the lawsuit.
"I thought it was a safe site cause it was a dot com!"
Maybe an intelligent judge will throw it out of the courtroom?
But then you have the up and coming legislators out to get a few extra votes.
The "Freedom Using Controlled Knowledge" Act.
HR 31337
ACLU sues the government
All content deemed pornographic is in
Next move, the same parent goes to playboy.xxx
"Why doesnt my ISP block this??"
ISPs start blocking
Next move, the same parent goes to goes to a kiddie porn website.
New agency starts tracking everyone who goes to
Congress sees this as a good thing, and assures everyone that the fourth amendment is alive and well in some dungeon somewhere safely in their control.
Small minority of net users use encryption and pseudonymity schemes to communicate freely, these people are branded potential terrorists and pornographers. Those who use encryption excessively are marked as being involved in illegal activity and as having something to hide.
Ultimately though, pornography will survive but freedom will die.
This is just a worst case, I believe the people's will to freedom will prevent the worst case from happening.
Montreal's transit system is www.stm.info. It's very useful and informative.
The English writing at the above link (which is a history of the Metro system - i.e., subway) is excellent.
Such huge changes will definitely have bad effects. I can't think of any right now. Well, one such effect will be easier phishing with mistyped URLs. Like www.mastercar.dcom. And many other bad effects.
I beleive .ws was one, am I correct? .tk was pretty successful at giving out free ones, but I don't think many people actually paid for them.
Which brings up an interesting question: can ICANN just usurp New.net's market in .xxx domains without compensating New.net for the destruction of their business? I believe this already happened with the .biz extension, which was originally offered by Atlantic Root Network.
- Ryan
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