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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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More TLDs noone is going to use because ".com" just sounds cooler.
Goatse.XXX
eg. "your mummas house has a .xxx address!"
I look forward to the 20-year running gag that will be the legal battle over "sex.xxx".
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?
Even better, from TFA:
.xxx top-level domain only exists to help filter pr0n (blithely assuming parents all use filtering software)? And it costs ten times what a .com address does? And because it's new and non-standard people are less likely to recognise/remember/use it?
.xxx address, eh?
"ICM contends the "xxx" Web addresses, which it plans to sell for $60 a year, will protect children from online smut if adult sites voluntarily adopt the suffix so filtering software used by families can more effectively block access to those sites. The $60 price is roughly ten times higher than prices other companies charge for dot-com names."
So... what? The
Wow, sounds like they're really stacking up those reasons to change to a
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
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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or .cum
If we can start moving all the pornography on to .xxx sites then we could make it far easier for people who dislike pornography to block it out .
.com, and get all the people that have blocked .xxx but will, if you just tempt them properly, subscribe to your site. Result: Profit!
Which is the top reason they *won't* move. Porn sites are fully aware that many people are infact paying for porn while pretending not to like it. People have subpoenaed adult channel subscription to disprove "community standards" and found that lots of people that supposedly don't like porn are subscribing to porn.
It is the same reason telemarketers would love to call people that have reserved themselves against telemarketing, and the reason the show pop-ups to people with pop-up blockers. Many people are weak and have installed those in "self-defense". So you stay on
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
but why can't there be legislation that FORCES pornographic websites to use such a suffix from now on?
.xxx.us domain, we can make it, but there is zero reason aside from registrars pushing for more short-term money and a few short-sighted people pushing to "solve" the "Internet porn problem".
/rating.txt file that works like the robots.txt that indicates level of content, and have web browsers and proxies respect it. For Christ's sake. But don't do something goddamn stupid like add a .xxx TLD.
Because the entire world uses DNS, and the entire world doesn't have a consistent standard for what is socially acceptable when it comes to sexuality.
Some Islamic countries consider it socially unacceptable to show anything other than the eyes and hands of a woman.
In the US, we'd consider the French and British tendancies to stick topless women on TV unacceptable.
Japan has a real problem with showing genital hair, but no problem at all with representing underage characters.
The problem is that it suddenly tries to stick a single moral standard on the entire world to make a few short-sighted people who are agitating for an "xxx" domain (because they're scared Junior *might* discover what a woman looks like before getting married, God forbid!)
This promises to create an almost unlimited number of social problems. Why, why, *why* is ICANN letting this through? Okay, if we want to have a
It's possible to build a worldwide content-rating system, but tying it into DNS (at least using the current approach) is just plain stupid. You want websites to be rated, add a
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
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.
Porn is one of the most profiting busineses on the internet. What if you just could bunch those profitable business together and force them to pay more? In TFA it suggest a price of 60$ which is about 10 times more then a normal domain. Why should it be this expensive? Are domains with the letter X that much harder to register than domains with the letter c? .xxx. The registar hopes to cash in on that move. Since the expense of 60$ is just small change with profitable porn, they may just get away with it too. Maybe /. should ask a licence to print money from congress too?
This is nothing more than a gamble that legisation will force adult content to
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
but why can't there be legislation that FORCES pornographic websites to use such a suffix from now on?
.xxx compulsory domain naming apply
Who decides what constitutes "pornography"? You? Congress? What if Iran got to decide? They have internet access, too, remember.
A simple litmus test could be that the obscenity rules that apply to broadcasters being the yardstick against which
Yeah, the FCC has done such a great job of applying random, inconsistent rules to broadcasters. Skin is immoral and dangerous to our children, but extreme violence is perfectly fine? Also note that radio broadcasters have *much* more stringent rules than over-the-air television broadcasters do.
it's a win-win situation according to me... what am i not getting?
Government-mandated morality is not a good thing because it relies on one subset of the population's interpretation of "morals". This is not to say that the TLD is a bad idea, but it needs to be voluntary, not compulsory.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
they should be looking at the needs of other net users. .blog would be a good start.
It would make it so much easier to filter. Google: "usefulstuff -site:.blog". I like it allready.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
I guess your beef is more with them actually legislating it, but that doesn't seem like such a big deal to me either.
.org domain name), does that mean that I get sued by the American govt? If the plan is for the legislation to only apply to Americans, how is that going to be enforced without removing internet anonymity? How long til the world governments decide that, since the whole .xxx thing worked so well (or regardless of the fact that it didn't) they'd like to control more stuff thank you very much?
As a Brit, I'm not too keen on the American govt trying to claim legislative control over the internet. If I decide to put kinky pictures on my site (which, as you will note, is at a
How long til my favourite white-hat hacking sites go dark?
For the love of God, please learn to spell "ridiculous"!!!
It's going to be about a year before Congress tries to find someway to outlaw all porn that isn't on a .xxx domain.
Because the entire internet is in the US. (Not saying the morons won't try it)
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
Because, as much as you'd like to believe, .jiz doesn't cover everything.
Everything related to the content, that is.