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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."
Incidentally, no, XXX goes back to porn promoters in the 1970s, long before 'school nets'. Incidentally, you also can't spell incidentally.
From a linked article in the summary: "But Ms. Duke said many of those were likely to be "defensive" registrations, from businesses that wanted to prevent their names from being hijacked. Mr. Lawley said businesses could ensure that their names were not misused in the dot-xxx world by paying a one-time fee, to be set from $50 to $250." Plus five insightful for straight up regurgitation of another persons opinion. The moderators are rewarding these idiots who are not capable of independent thought. Actual thoughful and unique opinions (what are the only opinions who actually deserve the "insightful" tag) are ignored. The regurgitation of opinion, being passed off as ones own unique opinion gets a plus five. All I can do is shake my head and laugh at ericlondaits pretending to actual use his/her mind, instead of actually doing something with it (I also laugh a moderators who don't know the meaning of the word insightful, and who don't read the linked articles). I am almost embarrassed to be a human because of peers like this.