XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use

eldavojohn writes "The contract between ICANN & ICM Registry has just been revised for procedures on using the .XXX TLD. ICM is saying that the domain should be readily available for registration as early as this summer. This means that parents will most likely have an easier time protecting their children from these sites and these sites will be more tightly regulated and easier to scrutinize by authorities. ICM also mentioned the collaboration with International Foundation for Online Responsibility."

Comments

Re:Clarification

[Ernesto Alvarez]

There is no .xxx domain because it is already known how good such course of action is.
Now, they've made one in order to allow some organization to get some easy cash, while screwing us all with all this "think of the children" stuff. Gee, thanks a lot for listening to what the technical community has to say.

(At least read the title of the document linked, it says a lot)

BTW, I agree with you on TLDs, only country codes should be allowed as TLDs.

Re:I call dibs on...

[fyngyrz]

You missed:

• MoveHereSoWeCanCensorYouAndRepressSexuality.xxx

NO IT DOESN'T! Or, Article Is A Troll

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

This means that parents will most likely have an easier time protecting their children from these sites and these sites will be more tightly regulated and easier to scrutinize by authorities

NO IT DOESN'T. Please at least pretend you've read RFC 3675.

Re:I call dibs on...

[ajs318]

Simple. Make it a condition of registration that everyone registrant of an .xxx domain must have a genuine site (not a link farm or placeholder) ready to be hosted there before a whois record is created. Suspend the whois (and therefore effectively disable access to the site from anyone not using its registered nameservers) if any abuse is suspected.

Of course, this requires a watchdog with teeth .....