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New .XXX Top Level Domain
Jigabug writes "There's a story over at Yahoo! News mentioning yesterday's approval by ICANN on a new .xxx TLD. Domains are currently planned to be offered at 60.00 each for registration. The .xxx joins the recently approved .jobs and .travel." From the article: "Adult-oriented sites, a $12 billion industry, probably could begin buying xxx addresses as early as fall or winter depending on ICM's plans,
ICANN spokesman Kieran Baker said. The new pornography suffix was among 10 under consideration by the regulatory group..." CNN and the BBC have commentary as well.
Why not .orgy ?
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Goatse.XXX
eg. "your mummas house has a .xxx address!"
.jiz ?
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I'm pretty sure there's a blow.jobs-joke somewhere in there.
The owls are not what they seem
I think this is the first actually useful TLD to be introduced in years. Congrats ICANN, you actually did something worthwhile and managed to justify about two weeks of this year's operating budget.
Now of course, we'll see who actually moves from COM to XXX voluntarily.
*sound of crickets chirping*
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
http://www.google.xxx?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Next time I need some sporting equipment and go to Dicks.com I won't be unpleasantly surprised.
.xxx might help normal domains register what they want. There are so many porn sites, there is a chance that your domain might be taken and filled with horse on midget porn. It might be a bad decision to use BiteMyNipples.com for a business anyway, but as long as you stay away from the .xxx your customers might not get tricked.
.xxx anyway though, and there really isn't any reason for them to start. Old sites probably won't convert. New sites might choose either or both. I guess it is just one more chance for a site to get the URL they want.
Adding the
This only matters if porn decides to use the
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And the porn industry will be quick to register blow.jobs a lot sooner than they register one of these
Meh, the most porn I've seen resides at 127.0.0.1
But then Irish non-profit organizations would have to use .org.ie. Which I don't think they would really like to do.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
There may also be pressure from some who feel "We must prick holes in the stiff fronts erected by the opposition at every turn"[1] to the idea of putting all pornography in one easily filtered location.
[1] George Carlin, though my quote may not be exact.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
(doesn't even attempt to maintain a straight face)
This is your sig. There are thousands more, but this one is yours.
"Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive to penetrate any crack in his defenses, so we can lay to rest his dominate position. We want him hung and we want stiff action. Let's get on him. Let's ram through a stiff bail law so it'll be hard for him to get it up. We've got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission. It'll be hard on us but we can't lick it by being soft."
G.C.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
PrOn for Nerds. Size does matter.
In the US, we'd consider the French and British tendancies to stick topless women on TV unacceptable.
We do?
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You know you've been on Slashdot too long when your initial reaction is to think that the "IE" in the TLD was what you meant by the offensive part.
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