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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."
(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...
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.
XXX means porn?! Looks like I'm going to have to rethink the domain name for my moonshine business.