ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains

Velcroman1 writes "The World Wide Web red-light district is poised to explode. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet's governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the adult entertainment industry on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — otherwise called the 'begin printing money phase.' The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch of .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM Registry began accepting .xxx applications from trademarked companies — those looking to use a .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website."

Comments

Can't wait for Slashdot.xxx

[Anonymous Coward]

Open source porn! (Plus Apple stories)

google.xxx

[rwv]

Can we expect a new, porn-only search engine? There's lots of money to be made with porn ads. It would be surprising to see what Google does with its own XXX site.

Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain

[Jibekn]

They're called fetishes, show me where I can get 40 hours of a midget beating a south American prostitute with a halibut while reciting the pledge of allegiance and ill stop paying for my porn.

Synchronicity

[bryan1945]

A few articles ago there was an article about a better way to pack balls into something.
Now this story.

Coincidence? You decide.

Re:Phase names

[The Wild Norseman]

and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website

Where at "microsoft.xxx" the truthful comment that their servers constantly go down on you, brings on an entirely new and unintended meaning...