Top Level .xxx Domain Concept Under Scrutiny

An anonymous reader writes "The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography. This is despite the the .xxx domain being approved in June and New.net selling domain names using the .xxx suffix for many months before the approval." From the ZDNet article: " The sudden high-level interest in what has historically been an obscure process has placed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an uncomfortable position. ICANN approved the concept of an .xxx domain in June and approval of ICM Registry's contract to run the suffix was expected this week Other governments also have been applying pressure to ICANN in a last-minute bid to head off .xxx. A letter from ICANN's government advisory group sent Friday asks for a halt to 'allow time for additional governmental and public policy concerns to be expressed before reaching a final decision.'"

Comments

Cue

[Anonymous Coward]

The 1500+ post liberal/conservative flamefest:

GO!

Re:Cue

[daniil]

Of course the Liberals would have allowed the .xxx domain. Hell, they would even let you eat your children if they were in power!

But they aren't, so my investment in the is-teh-su.xxx domain name seems to heading down the drain...

Re:Cue

[tomhudson]

Screw the .xxx TLD. I want the .xxxxx TLD. 5-star rating or bust (well, actually 5-star rating and LOTS of bust :-)

- and we can let the alcoholics have the .xxxx TLD, (remember the xxxx rotgut from the Bugs Bunny - Yosemite Sam cartoons>).

And illiterates can have the .x TLD (they don't have to sign for anything, just make their mark).

So that leaves the double-x TLD. Isn't 2x the size of some fat people's clothes?

So, the assignments are as follows:

• .x: analphabetics
• .xx: fat people (okay, plus-sized and bigger)
• .xxx: sex
• .xxxx: alkies and other addicts
• .xxxxx: all other pr0n
• .xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: for messy eaters whose keyboards got jammed up and the x key sticks Sounds reasonable to me, at least [tt]oday.

I got a TLD for them...

[pin_gween]

Think they'd object to ".cum" for all porn sites?

Re:I got a TLD for them...

[Zocalo]

Nah, that'll never work. You'd just have a quick .cum boom and a bust.

Personally, I'd think they'd have far more success with this idea of tying up all of the porn into one gTLD if they had proposed a ".bush" gTLD and then perverted it... That way we'd really have the problem licked; all of the pron and endless Pro/Anti NeoCon rhetoric caged into one easily filterable place should anyone choose to do so.

Not that I think the idea is ever really going to work even if it does get approved though.

Ironic...

[Anonymous Coward]

How can a group called the "Bush administration" object to .XXX domains?

.XXX would be EASY to block!

[erroneus]

My god! Don't you see the irony here? Internet porn will always be there. But if we were able to have all porn sites go under *.xxx then they'd be easier to block. I see this thing as a major convenience for everyone. I say let .XXX happen and then we can start blocking when we want to not see it... or is it just better to have this stuff in our faces "accidentally" all the time?

.XXX - It's not just for Porn!

[Tikicult]

I think that I'll register www.MoonShine.xxx and sell stills, big glass jugs, copper tubing and straw hats. Maybe even coveralls!

I Hate To Admit It

[Paul Slocum]

But I already found some porn on the internet, even though they haven't added the xxx domain yet. weird.

Re:I never understood the .xxx domain

[metaphorever]

For those that are still wondering what triple-X means, let's be specific... They are talking about pornography.
That's all there is to understand about it. All it means is that if I randomly type in nice-tits.xxx I can be sure that the site I get will have pictures of exposed breasts and not something like nice-tits.org a bird watching site.

Re:US Constitution vs. Censorship

[Tackhead]

> I personally can't find any way to view pornography that makes it 'speech'. Google "define: speech" and you get a whole lot of definitions, both literal and metaphorical. I don't see how pictures of lesbians munching pussy, say, fit any of those definitions, even approximately.

"Whem im meh courfe of hummum evemphs it becumf neceffary for um feepfle to diffolve feh fpowitical bandf which haf cummected fem wif amuffer, amf to affume amumm fe powerf of feh earff, feh feparate amm equal ftaffun (ooo!) whicf fe La(ahh)s of Natuure amm of Nature's - oh God - entfifle fem..."

Well, at least now you now why the Founding Fathers (and mothers :) rendered their cursive "s" characters to look like "f"s!

Oh great

[NIK282000]

This is all we need. goatse.xxx "all goat all the time."

Re:Legally force - under whose authority?

[modecx]

What's the USA going to do start a war?

I don't see it being a problem unless North Elbonia has a factory making nuclear powered vibrators...

Re:Which is not unconstitutional at all.

[oz_paulb]

Where it's gets sticky is this: define a porn site.

How about: any site that makes you sticky?

Re:Which is not unconstitutional at all.

[computational super]

Actually, that's www.UANAL.xxx now.

Or Christopher Walken

[robertjw]

http://www.walken2008.com/

(Yeah, I know it's a hoax)

Re:Here's why

[s_p_oneil]

That post was from me. The preview button reset my login info. Come on webmaster, that is a very simple thing to fix.