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ICANN Approves .XXX

Posted by timothy on from the not-to-say-they-approve-of-xxx dept.

lothos writes "Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided today." Ars Technica has a short but thoroughly-linked article tracing some of the long history (in Internet time) behind the push for .xxx. See also ICANN's announcement of the approval, and — for all the juicy details — the rationale behind the decision (PDF).

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  1. Re:It's a decision by knarfling · · Score: 4, Informative

    Should have looked closer. The June 2010 was only a preliminary decision. Took That long for the debate to make a final decision.

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  2. Re:It's a good decision by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft shill. And this guy's a professional. He gets first posts with alarming frequency, and when he gets modded down, huge numbers of mod points are spent to mod him back up, so he's either running karma whore accounts or he's part of a group.

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