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.xxx Domain Remains in Limbo

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the porn-sites-remain-profitable dept.

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."

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  1. In Limbo by umbrellasd · · Score: 5, Funny

    How low can it go!?

  2. Slashdot.xxx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. pr0n is TRASH by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

    1. Re:pr0n is TRASH by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny

      "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.

      --
      It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
      Be yourself no matter what they say
  4. You could always just use... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. In the immortal words of Voltaire the Pornographer by Eternal+Vigilance · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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