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

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.

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.