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ICANN Approves .XXX
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).
Yeah Bing should turn up those .xxx domains shortly after Google does...
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Not really, the argument was that it would make filtering slightly simpler in the future by blocking the entire TLD (as well as existing .com porn sites). I don't think conservatives would have a problem with that.
Countdown to criminalization of all non-.xxx porn.
I always had trouble finding porn on the internet before, what with there being so little of it out there. This will make it so much easier to find now! Thanks Internet!
Btw, could we have slashdot.xxx, where slashdot users can upload their nude pictures?
Wait... have you cornered the eye-bleach market?
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I wouldn't be so sure. The porn sites, from what I've heard, want to be in a .xxx domain so that they can be blocked more easily. Why? Because that gives them protection against future bills like COPA that would be much more burdensome for them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a lot of porn sites will continue to maintain their .com or .net domains, but I'd imagine they will quickly be modified so that each page redirects you to the same page in the .xxx domain. It's easy enough to set up a web server to do that.
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This accomplishes only a few things that I can see: .xxx domain whenever a loud enough moral group insist that it should be categorised as dirty. .xxx and filter out "the bad stuff". .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.
1. Puts pressure on all sorts of sites to operate only under a
2. Falsely creates a sense of safety amongst idiots who think they can block
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
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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and — for all the juicy details — the rationale behind the decision (PDF).
I take it there are pictures?
Ban of porn web sites and e-mail senders not properly labelled under the .XXX TLD.
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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I'd really like to see ICANN create a TLD limited to banking sites and online stores the way .edu and .gov cannot be registered by any old scammer. I think that would do a lot in the way of preventing phishing. Few people understand the concept of security certificates and even fewer know why a self signed certificate is bad. ID theft and fraud seems to be a more important issue than preventing a 12 year old from seeing the human body due to a stigma based off 2000 year old mythology.
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.
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.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Viablos is a sock puppet of devxo, a Microsoft shill.
I'm not going for .xxx. I figure porn is a business so I'm using .com until they do it right and I can use .cum.
I can approves it too, LoLCat. Your point?
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More like exploding heads in the opposition's mouth. Let's try to keep this discussion on-topic!
They don't enforce the intended purposes of most of the other domains so what is the point besides another way to generate money?
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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.
by forcing what there is already to move to the new.
Wait till someone registers $firstname$lastname.xxx .... of their least favorite politician. When they come along and say "hey you're domain squatting my name" you can make sure there is heaps of publicity about them wanting to register their .xxx domain.
this will have absolutely no unintended consequences and certainly wont be abused [/sarcasm]
The great internet nerfing of 2011+, where we sanitize everything for the safety of pwecious wittle eyes has finally begun. Next step is to enforce a requirement that all "obscene" content be moved to xxx (and we all know how "obscene" is so loosely and meaninglessly defined). After that, simply using vulgar language or questionable images and comments online becomes a crime of corrupting a minor. Someome, please monitor my children as I'm incapable of parenting and accepting the world for what it is! Change everything to fit around my pwecious wittle baby!
...it's coming.
And the fq in fqdn!
Violation of free speech? what about my rights to have a clean search and not have to worry about my children seeing things that I don't want them to see.
Sorry. You don't have that "right". The rights to free speech and a free press take precedence.
Free speech and press were recognized because interfering with them interferes with peaceful removal of tyrannical regimes, leading to more tyranny on one hand and more violence when they finally do get replaced on the other. Give tyrants ANY excuse to suppress speech or press and they'll use it to hobble their political opposition.
Further: The internet, like printing, was created by adults for adults. You don't let your toddlers wander alone in the part of town that includes porn shops and bars. Why should the internet be any different? Minding your kids is YOUR responsibility. Trying to kid-proof the whole world is not an acceptable substitute. Do it yourself, hire it done, or teach your kids (once they can handle it) how to handle the "bad stuff" responsibly rather than trying to shield them from it.
The .xxx domain provides the equivalent of zoning, establishing an "area of town" where the porn stores can set up voluntarily. Seems to me that's a move in the right direction.
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You also forgot that legitimate businesses will be buying up the .xxx domains as fast as possible to prevent others tarnishing their name (Google.xxx, Yahoo.xxx, Bing.xxx, Oracle.xxx, etc.). If establishing a serious presence on the internet, I suspect that some companies buy all the TLD they can get for a domain for future proofing too.
"The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography."
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-5833764.html
One of many, I'm sure. The conservative arguments about porn have historically been contrary to common sense. When it comes to sex, giving kids access to condoms and vaccines against STDs is immoral, but teaching abstinence and watching the teen pregnancy rate soar is just fine. With porn, it's easier to deny that it exists (or place the burden of filtering upon ISPs, or grant the govt the power to snoop through your internet records to search for pedo material) than it is to simply allow them all to (voluntairly!) migrate to an easily filtered domain.
What's sad, virtually everyone else - ESPECIALLY THE INDUSTRY - wants this. Few people are *trying* to show that stuff to children. Only the producers of (highly ineffective) blocking software stands to lose here.
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