New .XXX Top Level Domain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 2, 2005 @12:54AM from the wakka-chikka dept.

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.

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Now it works. by Danuvius · 2005-06-02 01:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah, yeah... totally offtopic. Sorry.

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Re:Just a price hike by intnsred · 2005-06-02 02:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Someone please mod the parent post up. An "insightful" rating would seem appropriate.

Or better yet, a mod rating of "cutting through the rhetoric and clearly seeing a money grab combined with forcing a porn ghetto on all 'net users" would be more accurate.