.xxx Domain Remains in Limbo

datemenatalie writes "CNN.com reports that the Inernet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is still awaiting the decision of an advisory committee regarding .xxx domains. According to the article, "ICANN announced in June it would move ahead with plans to evaluate establishing a sex-site domain, but the proposal hit a snag in August when the U.S. Commerce Department asked for more time to hear objections." ICANN's president Paul Tworney was unable to say when a formal decision might be announced."

Comments

This just in!

[ReformedExCon]

General Franco STILL DEAD!

In Limbo

[umbrellasd]

How low can it go!?

Slashdot.xxx

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot.xxx only for articles on device dissections like Xboxes and PSP with the cover off. Maybee even Source code... how sexy.

pr0n is TRASH

[rice_burners_suck]

I think they should put ALL sex sites on this .xxx domain. And, yes, I know that U.S. laws won't do jack for sites that are elsewhere in the world, but that is exactly why the U.S. should retain complete control of ICANN and the domain name system, without giving in to anybody. This is how to solve the problem of pr0n getting into schools, public libraries, and your child's computer: The U.S. says, ok, any sex related site has to go on the .xxx domain. All sex sites have six months to comply and move their site in its entirety to this domain. Then, a government office is set up where government officials comb through the Internet with a big comb, a la Space Balls. Any sex site that is found in a non .xxx domain will have its domain name revoked immediately and the government will immediately go after them if they're in the U.S. or will work with foreign officials to make their life really, really suck. Those who go on the .xxx domain will have no problems and they can put whatever pr0n they want on there for all ya'll's enjoyment. Public libraries, parents, businesses, and whoever else who doesn't want pr0n in their place will have a simple task of blocking .xxx domains.

Get rid of that fscking stuff... Because you should just get your own anyway.

Re:pr0n is TRASH

[A beautiful mind]

"I know you're joking, but many Europeans find it hilarious how those in the US who go on the most about bringing "freedom" to Iraq and Afghanistan are often amongst the leaders in wanting to limit freedom in America."

I don't find it hilarious, not even a bit. I find it sad.

GIVE US OUR PORN DOMAIN!

[Lisandro]

Give it to the people or we'll riot to get it!

Re:.xxx - worse than nothing

[Lisandro]

That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.

    Reminds me of the great late Bill Hicks... "The US Supreme Court defines 'pornography' as 'any act without artistic merit that causes sexual thougths'. Mmmm... sounds like every God damned commercial on TV these days to me!"

good idea, but impractical

[aj1]

Making the general internet purely a kid friendly zone would help with many concerns parents have, but I do not believe it is going to happen. What is the likelyhood that the bad people who share unlawful or illegally copied pornography will all switch over to the xxx domain? The only real reason I see in this is to protect children from accidentally stumbling across bad things.

What's my prediction if this ever gets passed you asked? You will have an easier way of finding porn for sale by searching with the .xxx domain (as if you needed one), but nothing will change in the .com world. People who want too will still view porn. People who don't will still complain.

In my opinion instead of pushing the .xxx domain, we should be generating a database of "acceptable and non-questionable" stable websites that would be acceptable for general viewing. Then educate parents on how too set up firewalls to keep their minor children away from the stuff. Next we can encourage parents to spend enough time with their children they will feel confident in their childs choice in the matter.

You could always just use...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the .co.ck domain name. Really... http://www.google.co.ck/ I couldn't make it up if I tried.

Who will be the first?

[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

to register goatse.xxx?

Limbo Is So Second Millenium

[bottlerocket]

I thought being "in limbo" was on it's way out?

In the immortal words of Voltaire the Pornographer

[Eternal Vigilance]

"I disapprove of what you f*ck, but I will defend to the death your right to post pictures of you f*cking it."

"Vidi, veni" - Caesar