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ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites
An anonymous reader tips news that ICANN has officially approved the creation of a .xxx suffix for porn sites, confirming the rumors we discussed on Thursday. While this resolves a 10-year debate on the subject, the Guardian notes that "many pornography companies are unhappy with the idea of a dedicated space online because they expect that as soon as .xxx is implemented, conservative members of the US Congress will lobby to make any sex-related website re-register there and remove itself from other domains such as .com or .org." Others are more confident, like Stuart Lawley of ICM Registry, the company sponsoring the new TLD. "Mr. Lawley said more than 100,000 domains had preregistered. He said he expected that when the dot-xxx domains opened for business, nine to 12 months from now, some 500,000 domains would register, or roughly 10% of the five million to six million adult online sites."
First post.... a little premature I know, but......
(Tries to imagine hot chick squatting on a domain)
[fails, shrugs] I guess there really is a site for every kind of fetish.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Register yourname.xxx as your personal homepage, and give it out to all of your friends and coworkers! When they ask, "Umm, is this...", respond with, "You'll just have to go find out, now won't you?", and follow with a wink and a wry smile. Of course, you always could, you know, if you wanted...
They're more likely to serve both from the same machine, just with different virtual host names. No need to redirect.
Besides, at $60 a domain, when a dot.com is $10, that's obscene!
Besides, at $60 a domain, when a dot.com is $10, that's obscene!
Well, obscenity is to be expected for that domain. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
What's the correct syntax for wget to retrieve an entire TLD?
wget -r *.xxx isn't working.
So what you're saying is that getting screwed on the price is normal?
so what you're saying is you're not nearly as clever as the poster you replied to?
That's what she said!
Of course they can't see the difference. To see it, they would have to watch it. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
You forgot the most important TLD: .evil
Probably one of the requirements of this domain is that any servers set the evil bit.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
What is porn and who gets to decide what business should relocate to the xxx domain? Whose standards apply in something that is in an international arena?
And I can't wait for Four X beerto get into the porn market with a domain of xxxx.xxx (maybe the should sell some Seven X beer?)
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
"Build it and they will..." ...what, again?
XXX means porn?! Looks like I'm going to have to rethink the domain name for my moonshine business.
.sex Considered Dangerous
Use a .rubber.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Nice brand you got there. Be a pity if it got associated with donkey pr0n.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."