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ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites

Posted by timothy on from the type-one-and-type-two-errors dept.

shmG writes with this from the International Business Times: "The company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead on Friday for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated on Thursday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the US government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net."

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  1. because .xxx is nothing like .sex by oneiros27 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doesn't anyone bother to read the RFCs? (probably not, they're too interested in trying to sell domains to make money)

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    Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
    1. Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex by audubon · · Score: 3, Informative

      The doc you linked does mention a different idea that I could get behind though, establish a .kids which would be a semi-walled garden of child appropriate material.

      That's been tried, via an administered second-level domain, .kids.us

      From the link, It's the first and only "youth-friendly" Web space to be established by the United States government, and it features advanced technical, policy and operational mechanisms that keep young people informed, entertained and protected online.

    2. Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex by yeshuawatso · · Score: 3, Informative

      If anyone is too lazy to Google U-Rated, it's the UK equivalent of US Rated G. For a second, I was asking myself "What the hell is a U rating?" Google is your friend.

  2. Re:So... by RichardJenkins · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you tried just typing those words into your browser?

    In mine (FF3.5) it take me straight through to the site using (I think...) Googles 'I feel lucky' feature. This way, typing in a keyword has a good chance of taking you to the site you want. If people could register single keyword domains like that, I reckon it would cause a net decrease in convenience as more and more single keywords take you directly through to someone's site.

    With email, it's usually copy/paste for me, or just entering the first part of an address I've used before. I guess it could be useful, but probably not useful enough to warrant the 'search by keyword taking you to someones site' issue above.

  3. 14 years later by mbone · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was discussed a lot in 1996 in the IETF NewDom Working Group, which I participated in, and which partially lead to the creation of ICANN. What a zoo that was - it ended with Eugene Kashpureff going to jail for attacking the DNS root servers. For some reason, ".xxx" seemed to drive people crazy, and I am not sure it is much different today.