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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. 5..4...3... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Countdown to criminalization of all non-.xxx porn.

    1. Re:5..4...3... by LordLucless · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No, it's more like bitching that because a cinema kicks you out when you start making a political speech in the middle of a movie, your free speech is being abridged. You can say whatever you want, but nobody has to provide you with a forum to say it.

      Are you complaining because you're not allowed to put your blog on .mil, .gov, .edu? The situation is just the same.

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  2. Fucking stupid morons by h4rm0ny · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This accomplishes only a few things that I can see:
    1. Puts pressure on all sorts of sites to operate only under a .xxx domain whenever a loud enough moral group insist that it should be categorised as dirty.
    2. Falsely creates a sense of safety amongst idiots who think they can block .xxx and filter out "the bad stuff".
    3. Creates a sense of unjustified expectation amongst a different set of idiots who immediately decide that just because ICANN has created this TLD, that any site they deem improper that operates outside the hierarchy is engaged in some terrible underhandedness for daring to do so, trying to expose innocent people to their content.
    4. Instantly tars anyone who visits a site in .xxx domain in the eyes of moralisers and authority groups, regardless of whether the site is donkeyporn.xxx or just some site that was pushed to register under .xxx because it deals with mature topics.
    5. Creates artificial segregation along lines decided by minority moral bodies. I.e. sexual content has to be treated differently. We don't have a separate TLD for religion, or science - why must sex be so treated?
    6. Make pot loads of money for ICANN and registrars everywhere.

    I'll leave it to the reader to consider how that last consequence was balanced against the others...

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  3. The Porn Industry Won't Go For It by TheRedDuke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And for one simple reason: if every porn site on the planet has the same domain, every ISP/college/corporation/consumer router who doesn't want their clients/students/employees/family members viewing this material will just block it. Heck, as soon as I get to work on Monday, I'm going to update our firewall and IPS settings. No sane operation trying to make money on pornography is going to touch this domain with a 10ft [stripper] pole.

  4. Re:TLD for Financial Transactions by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I often wonder exactly what it was that drove people to wear clothes

    Run around naked through the woods and you'll quickly discover clothing is quite usefull.
    I especially recommend thornbushes for maximum educational value.
    Even if you don't want to put on shorts or a shirt, atleast get something to protect the dangling bits.

    Seriously though, I think a lot of it is down to status; clothing demonstrates wealth hence people want clothing.
    These days everybody has clothing, so we created artificial status through expensive clothing brands, and those seem to be quite popular as well.

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  5. Re:It's a good decision by Gerzel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is the next push will probably be to force porn sites to move to .xxx and institute general blocking measures.

    Also what goes on .xxx, well if it regulated that 'pornographic' sites must be on .xxx and no where else then it will be anything that can be passed as porno from gangbangs to gay and lesbian forums, to sexual health advice.