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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."
They will go register youporn.xxx so they have their name protected, and one will redirect to the other.
But if the .com address always redirects to the .xxx address, then firewalls could be easily configured to disallow all .xxx domains.
I guess that's one possible plus point.
Squirrel!
Most likely the .xxx will redirect to the .com so all internal and external links will remain working and you won't have to convert or test anything.
Redirecting .xxx to .com is much faster, easier and cheaper than vice versa and without the risk of being blocked by firewalls or filters.
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> -It is stupid to expect all porn to go to ".xxx".
Why should pornographers want to hide themselves? Really.
They should want to make it as easy as possible for their customers to find them and there non-customers to avoid them.
It serves both their capitalistic needs and their political interests.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Sure it can, if the registrar makes good on its pledge to ban child porn from the TLD, that would likely be a significant draw to porn sites. Especially ones that are asking for people to pay. With $60 a year in registration fees, it's not going to make much difference off the bottom line of a decent site, but being able to say that you're free of unadvertised impropriety can easily add up to big sales. People that frequent those sites are often times concerned about things like kiddie pr0n and becoming a victim of ID theft. If the registrar manages to crack down on that more than the .com registrars do, then it's likely going to make much larger sums of money.
In 1930s newspaper cartoon world, XXX means a barrel of rum.
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