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Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain
An anonymous reader writes "An application for the.xxx domain was first submitted six years ago. ICANN approved the application in 2005, and entered into an agreement with ICM Registry regarding technical and commercial terms. However, ICANN reversed its decision in March 2007. An independent review panel was called to look into why ICANN had changed its mind, and concluded that the body had been under pressure from the US government. Now the registry that submitted that application, ICM Registry, is pushing for .xxx to be approved. The company has argued that the .xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."
Constantly creating new domains to force brand owners to pony up more money for new TLD's thereby lining the pockets of ICANN's stakeholders (registries and registrars) and further funding their own existence.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
> The company has argued that the .xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."
This is a ridiculous idea, there are mountains of porn all over the web, and specially if it is known they are going to be filtered .xxx domains will constitute an insignificant percentage of the porn online, and I'm certain all of it will be available outside the .xxx namespace.
Yet one more aspect of the domain system that turns out to be a scam, what a surprise!
And ICANN are the first to be a bunch of corrupt incompetent idiots.
The net needs badly an alternative DNS root that is run competently and honestly.
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The internet was create by ADULTS for ADULTS. The better solution is to create a ".kids" domain that has the content restriction that everything on it be "kid friendly." That would allow the same ease of use to configure content blockers for children - only allow the ".kids" domain.
Perhaps the Puritans (and pedophile priests) are on to something here... maybe sex really is a lot more fun if you feel guilty about it, and have to keep it a secret! There is something very attractive about taboo behavior, particularly to adolescents.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
A few people are saying that porn sites are going to be worried about being blocked. How much money do they make from the accidental viewings (ads potentially) vs people actively seeking out the sites and or signing up as members? It's not like I'm going to block .xxx at home and then be like 'WTF? Why can't I get to my porn?' The only people this would affect are those at jobs where it gets blocked (stop looking at work), or schools. At home do what you want. Block for your kids and not yourself.
.xxx filters, so come see us, and oops now you are infected. Legitimate porn sites aren't going to suffer. Members will still come to them and pay their monthly fees.
The only problem I see is that plenty of malware providers/etc will continue to do their thing and promote their sites as able to avoid the
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Because typically TLD's are reserved for descriptions of the status of the hosting entity, not the content. .uk tells me a site is in Britain. .org tells me they're a nonprofit.
first degrading to women, who are turned into sex objects simply to be used for pleasure
Unless they were forced into such a production, what's the problem here? If a consenting adult makes a choice to become a sex object I don't see why it's any of our business.
who turn sex into the end-goal of life.
Reproduction is the end-goal of all life on this blue marble. Sex goes hand in hand with that, at least for mammals....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Exactly.
All the .xxx domain will do is cause every single porn site to pay for a .xxx domain before their competitors do. It'll be a mirror image of all porn .com domains.
Actually, that would be convenient; simply block every .com domain which has a .xxx equivalent. Sounds like a great idea! In fact, I'm going to preregister microsoft.xxx right now!
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That is your opinion and fair enough unless you try to impose it on others through laws or other forms of force. I am just curious why people like you consider sex to be degrading to women but not to men, or at least more degrading to women than to men. Could you please explain it to me? It seems that you assume that women gain no pleasure from sex and are only enduring it in order to please men which makes me think that you don't understand women at all and shouldn't be in the business of "protecting" them from themselves.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.