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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."
Incidently, no. "xxx" comes from old wordfilters on school nets, where blacklisted words were replaced by x's instead. Guess what sex got replaced with? Yup, "xxx".
"read RFC 3675: .sex Considered Dangerous"
Let me be the first to call bullshit. If the guy that wrote this had .sex or .xxx he woudldn't jave bothered. Sour grapes.
I was there when this was tossed around in the very beginning and it was a rush to see who could convince other people they had the good tlds and sex and xxx went fast. Notice they were never challenged in 15 years?
I was also there when *cough* alt.sex was created; it took all the sex off mainstream usenet and put it in one tidy place. .xxx will do the same over time notwithstanding all the whining about the domain ecosystem, which, yes is ugly, but nobody wanted any alternatives, you swine bought into this madness, be careful what you wish for.
Pass the popcorn.
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