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The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington
netrover writes "CircleID is reporting on the latest developments on the .XXX top-level domain as the related ICANN meeting is currently underway in Welligton, New Zealand. From the article: 'The .XXX TLD was widely expected to receive its final approval at the ICANN's last meeting held in Vancouver about 4 months earlier but the discussion was unexpectedly delayed as the organization and governments requested more time to review the merits of setting up such a domain.' But as it has been reported, it appears the discussions at ICANN Wellington are in limbo once again."
There is plenty, plenty of freely available pornography on the Internet. Enough to last the addict his whole life and result in chronic pain from over-masturbation. The first place pornography spread on the Internet, the alt.binaries.* hierarchy on Usenet, has always been free. Unless you just discovered the Internet yesterday, I fail to understand how you don't already know this.
But what it really means is one thing: money. You run the big "joebob.com" porn site? (made that up, no idea what it is). Well now you have two choices. You can either buy "joebob.xxx" (how much? Lets say a few hundred bucks) or you can not buy it. If you DON'T buy it then your competitor ("pornking.net" or whatever) can buy "joebob.xxx" and make it point to HIS site. That way if someone tries to go to "joebob.xxx" mistakenly, you lose the business and he gets it.
Now multiply that (and yeah, it is practically extortion) by the thousands of large porn sites that would have to buy that new domain (and renew it every year, it's extortion on an installment plan!). Add in a few of the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of smaller sites who may or may not pay.
What's that add up to? Money. LOTS of money.
Things would have been better if someone had tried to force the categories in the start (personal sites go into .people, commercial into .com, ISPs and phone companies into .net, non-profits into .org, porn into .xxx), despite all the problems that would have ensued. But we're not there. The top level domain a web site is basically meaningless.
This is another chance to sell "sex.whatever", "porn.whatever", "hotteens.whatever", etc again with the fun (and lucrative) bidding wars that will happen over those names.
There may be other benefits (block all of .xxx for your company and your chances of blocking something important are basically 0.0, would make porn slightly easier to find), but it all comes down to the money.
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"Last time I checked, domain names were treated like property."
.XXX domain)?"
.XXX is supposed to siphon off porn traffic out of the other tlds in the same way alt.sex took porn out of other usenet groups. It worked for the most part.
.xxx names they'll get used to them and stuff will have a greater incentive to move out of .com.
You didn't really check then did you because this is false.
" Suppose I own hotsweatymonkeysex.com (which I don't, unfortunately). Could they force me to give up my domain name without compensation (other than a free
No.
"Given the logistics of it, I could only see this working on a voluntary basis, which is to say that it wouldn't."
It IS voluntary. If people get used to
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http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q =melbourne+site:.aero&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=u tf-8:
.aero:
.pros:
Results 1 - 50 of about 454 English pages for melbourne site:.aero. (0.47 seconds)
There does seem to be a few companies using
Results 1 - 50 of about 289,000 English pages for site:.aero. (0.25 seconds)
Very few
Results 1 - 50 of about 52,100 English pages for site:.pro. (0.36 seconds)
Of course:
Results 1 - 50 of about 7,520,000,000 English pages for site:.com. (0.35 seconds)
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