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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. It's a good decision by viablos · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even while the porn sites most likely won't move from .com or .net, it makes it nice and easy to bing only .xxx domains.

    Btw, could we have slashdot.xxx, where slashdot users can upload their nude pictures?