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Celebrities Flock To Reserve .xxx Domains
hypnosec writes "Celebrities have moved swiftly to block their names from the .xxx domain, which is meant for websites that offer pornographic content. Thousands of celebrities have contacted ICM Registry to put their names on the permanently reserved list so that no one will be able to start offering porn under their name. The domain registration company, ICM Registry, failed to give out the list of domain names it had blocked nor it is willing to tell how long the list is. On a lighter note, OsamaBinLaden.xxx has been also blocked and we assume the Al Qaeda would have demanded to reserve the domain."
protection racket
This will lead to more and more .xx1, .xx2, .xx3 domain reservations.
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just wondering...
ParisHilton.xxx may be blocked, but what about Paris-Hilton.xxx, Paris_Hilton.xxx, ParisXHilton.xxx, xxxParisHilton.xxx and WeWillAlwaysHaveParis.xxx?
I don't just mean the reservations, but also the whole domain.
If I wanted to see porn of the Celebrity named Jane Doe, I wouldn't go
JaneDoePorn(com/xxx)
PornJaneDoe(com/xxx)
JaneDoePron(com/xxx)
JaneDoePics(com/xxx)
et cetera
I'd open Google and type in "Jane Doe Porn" and see which links look good.
If you're going to flood the xxx domain with useless garbage, then the whole concept of it is useless.
What rules are applied to this domain? If (for example) someone registers something like universal.xxx, would Universal Studios be able to challenge the validity of this domain in the same way as if someone registered universal_studios.com?
cowboyneal.xxx is still up for grabs.
Misspellings, typographical differences (hyphens), and that is not even taking into account domain names can contain numbers.
You can't buy them all. But the owners of the .xxx registry are making a tidy sum off the gullibility of celebrities, so it's all good.
... that name? I never knew names could be trademarked, or in any way be owned by people. (unless of course it is some stupid made-up name)
Oh well, not that I care, .xxx is just a mess now, it could have been grand, but no, they ruined it.
They don't, which is why they're snapping up the domains before someone else can.
Otherwise they could just wait and then pull an Atari.
Congratulations ICANN to all that extra cash. Defensive registrations is an untapped gold mine. I'd recommend adding one sex domain per year.
...Al Qaeda would have demanded to reserve the domain
Like who in Al Qaeda? Anyone who reserves a domain like that will have some security force knuckle draggers kicking their doors down and guns shoved up their asses - unless, they're some country that wants that domain for propaganda purposes to discredit them.
I wonder if I can register a .sucks TLD.
I'm sure businesses will clamour to register the companyName.sucks domain to prevent competitors messing it up.
Win.
This really shows how stupid celebrities really are. This practice of banning xxx names buy celebrities does NOTHING positive for their image, but it does make them look VERY stupid.
Let's face it, celebrities have sex, and they are more likely to have sex with a prostitute than normal people (except for evangelical Christians and priests). But maybe there is nothing wrong with sex. I could never figure out why some people in society get so sexually aroused by sex that they feel the need to ban it and prosecute people who have too much fun having it.
I wonder if Rob Malda reserved his name from the .xxx domain, so that nobody would associate a geek with sex. I wonder when we will start hearing about CmdrTaco-Sex.xxx. I wonder how long it will be before the (current) editors and employees of Slashdot will have their names sullied by a rogue .xxx domain. I wonder how long pudge will be free from dirty things like sex.
I could register an .xxx domain on my name, create a website there for me which lots of raunchy stuff and me doing things, then start spearing ads of me in barely legal lingerie, raunchy poses and whatnot, and start spreading viral videos.
Not that anyone would want to pay to see me, no, but sooner or later someone would buy my domain and pay me huge sums of money NOT to have to see me like that ever again!
After years of serving the slashdot community CmdrTaco leaves to open up his new site CmdrTaco.xxx Maybe after 14 years he will finally get laid!
There, fixed that headline for you.
I wonder when we will start hearing about CmdrTaco-Sex.xxx.
I'd pay good money to never see that.
There was a smudge on the monitor, and I thought, "They sure are! Sometimes it seems a new celebrity video 'leaks' out about once a month!"
Is it going to be "slashdot.xxx", or "xxx.slashdot.org" ?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I work in the industry and have followed this. The evil in the .xxx domain is staggering.
First is the pure money grab, same as with .mobi and .travel and several others. Ever use them for legit sites? No? But lots of companies paid for their domain name nonetheless. Domain names are cheap? Not the .xxx ones. This ain't a service it is a commercial business and they want some real cash. Oh not enough to be a major worry to most companies but enough to add up.
Then there is the provision that the registar has that they reserve the right to scan your site. That doesn't happen with any other domain but it does for the .xxx domain. Harmless you say? Most porn sites are members only. Is the registar going to need a full access account for every site to scan it? They refuse to answer. Who is going to responsible for leaked access? They don't even acknowledge that question. How is an American company going to deal with laws in different countries, as in why would a Japanese site have to follow US rules or vice versa?
But the final evil is why lots of politicians are in favor of it.
What is Playboy magazine? A porn mag OR a magazine with some pictures of nudity? The difference is important. The US has no clear anti-porn laws, instead it has laws that prohibit obscene material. What is obscene? That is a very good question and so far the courts have been unable to answer it.
Porn is legal in the US as long as no court can define it as being obscene. In olden days this explains nudist magazines and movies. By shooting it as a documentary on nudist live a movie could be sold that was just a skin flick. It is educational!
This has never gone totally away in the US although a lot of porn IS produced as purely porn the laws are still there and plenty of politicians would be willing to enforce them.
But how can you proof something is porn? How do you proof playboy.com is just obscenity? Well, a bloody big clue would be playboy.xxx Godwin be damned but it is a yellow star. Why do you think the yellow star was used on jews but not say a black star on blacks in America? Because there was no need to, you can tell a black person just by looking a them and therefor there was no risk of a black person going into a whites only store. The only way to enfore "gein juden" was to force them to wear an identifier.
If you force all porn on the .xxx domain you have also forced to label themselves as porn. To those who wish to purge porn from the web, step 1.
Will this happen? Some believe so, the same kind of people that defended Larry Flint. Not because they liked Hustler so much but because of this "joke".
An Arminain grandfather lies on his deathbed and calls his sons to him to depart some final wisdom, "Remember my sons, always defend the jews."
Why the jews the oldest son asks.
"Because once they are gone, we will be next".
The web as it exist now is a mess, porn, business, copyright infringement, press all mixed up with no easy way to tell which is which. But it makes it very hard for a group to silence a part of it. See the US problems with trying to filter porn in public libraries. Oops, it may contain sex but it is also free speech. .xxx would have no such protection since by its label it is only obscenity and that doesn't fall under free speech.
.XXX is a multi-layered beast. At first glance it seems just like a money grab until you realize that there is political support for it for over a decade from a certain quarter and they are NOT in it for they money. They got other motives and once they become evident it will be too late.
Remember this, when it was asked during a conference that IF as the registar said market forces would decide if it was a success or not that ANOTHER option for the registar who invested a LOT of money in this MIGHT use their political mussle to buy ADDITIONAL laws to FORCE purchase of .xxx domains to save their business, the representative plain refused to answer.
Google will do wonders for some more insights.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Slashdot, not Slashdumb. This is a good step forward in the porn war. The only people I see butt hurt over this are the same people that are trying to hide the fact that they are the ones watching porn (and bad porn I might add at that). If your scared say your scared!
I'm sure there will only ever be 1 person with any of the names on the list.
Take Casey Donovan, for example.
Quickly! Someone please block this before it is too late!
The only explanation for the creation of new tla's is it forces companies (and in this case individuals) to buy up all the new variations of their domain names to protect themselves. It doesn't actually create new domains for people to actually use. How many times out there is X.com a different company than X.org, or X.biz?
Might be like being German, and being called Adolf 60 years ago, but that doesn't mean that another Osama bin Laden didn't ask to have him name removed....
I see that michelebachmann.xxx is reserved, but marcusbachmann.xxx is still available,. . . Likewise, rickperry.xxx is reserved, but Stephen Colbert could still reserve rickparry.xxx in the name of ColbertSUPERPAC,. . . ;-)
How famous do I have to be? I plaster my name all over the internet, I'm pretty sure people know who I am. But I don't want my name associated with any of this smut stuff. I'm an utter Jerkass, but I'm a clean Jerkass.
You're assuming that such domains will actually "sully" people's names. If too many of these things appear, it will be the entire xxx domain whose reputation will suffer--to the benefit of all I might add.
May the Maths Be with you!
Why is this needed? Celebrities have their name as a trademark. If someone registers a porn site to their trademarked name, they can make a small fortune by suing. This sounds like something that came out of a PR feed to create demand for .xxx domains.
Hilton.xxx? A hotel chain might take exception to that.
As I understand legal procedure, being proactive about enforcing your exclusive rights is considered better practice than sleeping on your rights just to get bigger damages. This is true of trademarks even more than of copyrights and patents.
First they came for the lolicon manga....
ICM Registry: "Just as planned."
I would love to see someone portray mohammed in anime-style porn (possibly with pigs, or at least chicks wearing pig snouts and ears) to piss off radical muslims. :-)
goatse.xxx is still available!
Why not trademark/copyright your name, personality, and features or whatever it is they do in hollywood, then you can bring legal action against those who would use your name in such a manner, without having to spend a ton of money on all the variations of your name?
A pair of domains .toucheshimself and .touchesherself.
Instant blackmail material !
Also, how about .pedo ?
OH the humanity !
I have nothing to lose but my bindings.
Okay, something really strange just happened to me. First, I must say that I was not trying to look for porn! Just out out of curiosity, I typed sex.xxx into my chrome browser awesome bar and the sex.xxx URL went to my Dlink router login page! I tried it again and it went to my Dlink router login page again! I'm in totally in disbelieve! Can some please try this and see if they get the same result! Yes I have had something to drink, but I'm not imagining things!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, their a terrible idea and this shows why. We don't need to create problems like WhiteHouse.com vs. .gov. Creating problems is just plain stupid.
The only TLDs that should exist might be those that are meaningful like edu, gov, org and mil. The rest are crap. Get rid of them. /sophomoric excuse making in 3... 2... 1....
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