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Why the .XXX Domain is a Bad Idea That Won't Die
Reader tqft tipped us to an opinion piece on the UK site The Guardian, which lays out the reasons why article writer Seth Finkelstein feels the .XXX domain is a terrible idea. You may recall that last year (being an election year and all), the concept of a triple-X ghetto was revived, considered, and then quashed all in the space of a few months. We also recently discussed the fact that the idea just won't die, as the company ICM Registry pushes ICANN to allow them to pass out the names by Summer. Finkelstein primarily argues that the new domain is a bad idea from a business point of view. Ignoring for a moment the issue that much of this content is already labeled, he sees this as primarily a means for ICM Registry to gain a monopoly on what is sure to be a hot-selling product. Speculators, pornographers, and above-board companies will all jump on the namespace in an effort to ensure that their domain is represented ... or not, as the case may be. Where do you fall on this issue? Would a .XXX domain be helpful for parents, or just a political salve/moneymaking scam?
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...and in some women walk around with no shits on like men. ... Do the American tax payers launch a multi billion dollar crusade to purge the internet of porn and bring our Christian morals to the internationally based Internet?
I'd just like to state that though I am non-Christian, I am thoroughly against people walking around with shits on.
Unless you're in to that stuff, sicko.
With a .xxx TLD I'd finally be able to distinguish between fullofspunk.net as a motivational business website and fullofspunk.xxx as a site featuring pictures and videos of semen.
It will also allow us to distinguish between sites run by Landover Baptist Church, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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Assuming you meant "shirts," which country would that be? I think I may be going there soon for, um, business *cough*, and uh, I was just wondering if, um, coincidently, it may be the same country?
Maybe not
I'd rather not see hillaryclinton.xxx, either!
At least one good thing could come out of this:
goatse.xxx
What does a TLD have to do with finding porn, or anything else? Are you gong to make a list of words, append .xxx, and type them into your address bar: aardvark.xxx,.... zygote.xxx?
If you can't come up with a more imaginative description of people exchanging zygote's, this domain is not for you.
As a parent, it will help me out when I am searching for pr0n so I will later have more time to spend with the kids.
Aham. Planet Earth is not just the USA. There will be plenty of offshore .com porn sites to fill any void created.
And I'm kind of looking forward to slashdot.xxx - "Nudes for Nerds"
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For example, to get a list of
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_sitesearch=.org
to get a list of
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_sitesearch=.mus
To get a list of
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_sitesearch=.xxx
"But", you say, "of what use is a mssive list of all domains? You could never click them all!" The truth is that we can go EVEN FURTHER and search for key words within sites in those domains, but I fear the culture shock from showing you this would be too much for you to bear.
This may all sound like science fiction in your primitive era but one day this technology will seem almost common place.
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