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.xxx registry sues US government

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-your-moaning dept.

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "ICM Registry LLC, the company behind the proposed .xxx internet porn domain, is to sue two departments of the US government for access to documents it claims show the US pressured ICANN into rejecting the domain. The Florida-based startup will sue the Department of Commerce and the Department of State to get them to release documents that they redacted when they responded to a Freedom Of Information Act request that ICM filed last year."

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  1. Re:From the start-your-moaning dept. by Haeleth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Anyway, why shouldn't there be a xxx domain?

    For all the usual reasons that there shouldn't be any other new domains. When was the last time you saw a legitimate business with a .biz domain? Or a legitimate anything with a .info domain? They're not needed and are used almost exclusively for scams.

    All it would mean would be that everyone would have to buy the .xxx version of their domain as well. For some reason I don't think Coca-Cola wants a porn site at www.cocacola.xxx.

    Not mandatory, but if a particular site wants to say right up front, "Hey, I'm porn," what's wrong with that?

    Um, exactly what is not upfront about "www.hot-lesbian-porn-pictures.com"? I don't see them panicking that people might not realise what their site is about, just because it doesn't have an ".xxx" on the end.

    Maybe it seems a little much to give a whole domain to a single topic, but if you don't want to accidentally see porn it gives you a decent way to greatly reduce the amount you see

    How? It will be of precisely ZERO VALUE for filtering out porn unless it's mandatory. And any attempt to make it mandatory would be unenforcable.

    Look, if you don't want to accidentally see porn, all you have to do is install filtering software, which you'd have to do anyway to avoid being redirected from a .com to a .xxx domain, and which works perfectly well today without needing any special domains at all. See? Capitalism has already provided the answer by making available products that meet a consumer demand. There is no need whatsoever for any legislative solution.