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The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the site-your-sights-on-pr0n dept.

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."

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  1. Is this necessary? by Poromenos1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why do we need a .xxx domain anyway? Will it make easier for people to block these sites? You can't get into them unless you pay anyway. Is it better for categorization? All the other sites are in 2-3 TLDs. I just don't see what this would help.

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  2. local blogger at ICANN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    David Farrar is an InternetNZ councillor and is attending ICANN in Wellington... he's blogging on the meetings at:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/

    mixed in with his other stuff of course.

    Useful stuff like:

    But what is interesting is who else is against the proposal. I had lunch yesterday with the Communications Director of the trade association of the adult entertainment industry. And they are not in favour of .xxx but very much against it.

    Their fears are the opposite of the US Government. They fear .xxx TLD may end up becoming compulsory for adult entertainment websites, with governments then legislating to make it mandatory for such sites to be in .xxx TLD. They also believe credit card companies might refuse to provide services to adult sites which are not in the .xxx TLD which will give the sponros of that TLD de facto control over the entire industry.

    Go crash his server.

  3. Re:More Appropriate Name? by lgftsa · · Score: 4, Interesting
    UserFriendly.org already has a claim on ICANT internet.


    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980509

    ...though that won't stop ICANN, judging by past actions.

  4. Two issues by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are two issues that I see with .xxx

    1) Define porn. Any definition will have to involve questions of artistic merit, like they deal with in other cases.

    2) What do you do with hybrid sites? I mean, wikipedia has several graphic illustrations in the human sexuality articles. Does wikipedia have to move fully to .xxx?