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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. a way to handle this by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wouldn't mind seeing all the pornographic .com domains being allowed (forced?) to exchange their .com domain for the same .xxx domain. Once that's done, don't allow porn on .com domains. The problem is, there would still be a financial impact on those businesses to change all their other stuff to say '.xxx' instead of '.com'. There's a lot more involved than just changing the domain itself.