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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."
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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.
By the other side, it just makes it easier to google with "site:.xxx". Anybody with more than one neuron will probably get both a .xxx and a .org or .net domains for the site.
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Shit, why don't they just do away with the tiered system altogether. I mean it's not like ".com", ".org", ".net", etc actually mean anything at all.
I want a server named "This is my cool webpage" (yes, including spaces).
The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a .cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
In a way its a good idea... the over-controlling nutcases can think they are actually doing something by blocking the entire domain, while all the actual pr0n, not wanting to be blocked, remains in the .com domain.
In a way its a bad idea, because most of the money will be generated by giant corporations buying the domain so pranksters/whatever can't abuse their name. Expect to see ibm.xxx purchased by ibm solely to keep other people from messing with it.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
True but it is not exactly hard to find porn on the internet whether you are looking for it or not.
Porn? No, the XXX hell gates of mockery, intimidation and blackmail has just been blown wide open. I fail to see anything good or positive we can get out of this domain, looks like this is designed only to fill registrar's coffers.
This is a scam.
I own a adult domain non-generic and working website.
I have the trademark for it but they didn't let me register my domain.xxx because they have reserved thousands of popular words for a later auction.
When i try to register it it says "RESERVED". My lawyer has contacted them without response.
Also they have sold lots of valuable domains before september to investors without telling nobody, you can check register date in some generic domains.
It can also be called blackmail.
This domain will not succeed because its owned by speculators and cybersquatters.
But if you look for it in .xxx Frank Shilling is where you are likely to find it. Don't expect that the landrush opportunity isn't already locked up in full.
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http://thisismycoolwebpage/
Do you really want that?
It's not necessary the only domain of a porn site.
ICANN has cheezcake?
The man with the 7-figure pockets could get sexe.xxx and sexo.xxx, but not sex.xxx? After the battle over sex.com, I'm curious who was awarded that domain.
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> will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries, schools and workplaces. Somehow I doubt there is much demand for porn originating from those environments anyway, at least not much money-raising porn.
According to a recent article in the Economist, porn browsing is growing fastest on smartphones. The .xxx domain wouldn't be blocked on those devices unless attached to a corporate network.
So who exactly will be blocking this?
That should have read as
http:/// this%20is%20my%20cool%20webpage/
My company's attorney asked me if we needed to register all of our domains under their "Register your brand with .XXX so someone else doesn't" program. I told them that while we could do that, there's no reason why someone would want to use our domain for porn, and even if they wanted to, they could register under .org, .net, .info, or one of the dozens of country domains available to anyone (some domain speculator already grabbed our .org and .net domains). I asked him if he was prepared to spend thousands of dollars/year preemptively registering our domain and common mispellings across all available TLD's on the off chance that some porn operator thought that our company's would be attractive to people looking for porn (our company's name is associated more with industrial products than big bouncing boobs). I think he finally understood why this .xxx preregistration was such a scam.
While you battled with your 7-figures about a single world, I registered every other word in the dictionary and created new niches of porn.
You should check out our wildest newly added categories: categories
(while joking, that list does sound like it could be made into a porno.)
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
"Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business."
Um, no. You could not be more incorrect.
Do you really think that the more successful sites are the ones not filtered?
Think - existing filters already exist, AND they block a vast majority of porn sites.
Sites like brazzers dot com etc all do just FINE and they are filtered 100%. Presuming they open brazzers dot xxx, they will STILL be filtered 100%.
I /guess/ you could possibly make an argument that a .XXX level block is "shorter" or "simpler" than traditional URL pattern blocks that work within .COM, etc. ... it does not matter WHERE a site is located, it will be blocked.
But that's irrelevant
There's no real-world argument that .com sites are better at evading filters (and thus "not going out of business" because of it). Content filters are usually updated HOURLY, so they'll block every new porn site on any TLD. Smart filters will block the DNS nameservers which are owned by porn sites, so new sites can not slip through like say a "zero day warez" site might slip through.
Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
People make money from porn on the Internet?
Is there really any porn you can't get for free by the gigabyte?
No sig today...
Dunno, but I bet he's wined and dined the boss of ICANN. Maybe even thrown in a luxury yacht or two.
No sig today...
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
My first read was why the hell is Carl Icahn getting into .xxx domain markets... doesn't he have anything better to do with his time?
Thanks for the new sig.
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The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries...
When was the last time you went thru the computer lab at a library??? *yuck*
> The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM .xxx applications from .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their .xxx website
... which is, in turn, known as the "extortion" phase.
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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.
It does help organize things a bit. http://www.coolwebpages.co.uk/ you know immediately is english language, but also strictly British. .gov, .edu and .mil are generally safer than a .ru site to visit, and you know that you're going to have an epileptic seizure if you try reading the flashing text on a .jp site. You can figure out someone's nationality from their accent in speech, but a nationalized or regional top level domains are the only identifier about the location or level of trust you have before you click on a link.
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Is there really any porn you can't get for free by the gigabyte?
How would you know how much porn is available for free? Hmmm?
The cake is a lie.
On slashdot.xxx
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Are you saying that companies that registered a name should get it under all TLDs? Because that would make TLDs completely pointless.
A few articles ago there was an article about a better way to pack balls into something.
Now this story.
Coincidence? You decide.
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The composite domain bidding needs some explanation:
As an example, let's say that Joe wants acme.com, acme.biz and acme.xxx as a composite domain. He bids $60 for acme.com, $20 for acme.biz and $10 for acme.xxx making the appropriate deposits in escrow with ICANN. Sam comes along and bids $61 for acme.com but the other bids for individual domains acme.biz and acme.xxx are $19 and $9 respectively. The individual bids (totaling $89) in escrow receive no interest payments; Joe's (totaling $90) do. Moreover, the current owner of acme.com pays the 1 year Treasury rate on the $60 bid by Joe, not on the $61 bid by Sam. Conversely, the owners of acme.biz and acme.xxx pay interest on $20 and $10 respectively. Joe's escrowed bid for the composite domain receives the 3 month Treasury rate on $90. The owner of acme.com can, of course, accept Sam's bid of $61 at any time, in which case Sam starts paying the interest on the $60.
The obvious implication of this is that there would be a dynamic and highly automated flow of money between escrowed bids, but domain domain speculation would be a thing of the past.
If a domain name is defended as a legally recognized trademark, business name, etc. then no ICANN-mediated bidding is allowed and ICANN charges no fees.
What should ICANN do with the revenue arising from the difference between the 1 year Treasury rate and the 3 month Treasury rate?
Seastead this.
You mean the ones that already do?
I cant say about other countries, but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked, and on addition to that the entire .xxx domain is blocked
I think the better question would be....
What the hell do you use the internet for....?
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>but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked,
That's not very many.
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BMO
I'm sure mobile networks will be happy to charge an extra $1/MB for data to any site resolved via a .xxx domain name lookup...
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Unlikely. The majority of people who actually pay for porn are probably watching at home on an unfiltered connection.
The freeloaders who watch at work, or on mommy and daddy's connection aren't paying. They are the ones that will be filtered.
>but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked,
That's not very many.
-- BMO
you missed the second part. .com/.net/etc), the ENTIRE .xxx domain is blocked
in addition to these 30-40 (which are on
Well, for example there wouldn't be a gmail.com without TLDs as it's already registered on a German domain. The Internet is much bigger than you think, and TLDs serve a useful purpose in keeping it sorted.
While reciting the pledge of allegiance? That's just going too far.
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They actually have some good ideas.
"He wants to build trust: .xxx will be the only top-level domain to provide free virus scanning for all its sites. He also plans to create a payment system on the lines of iTunes and PayPal, which will shield users’ data and allow them to buy bits of content instead of paying a monthly subscription."
You missed the part where there are about 1 billion other porn sites on the web so the 30-40 doesn't even scratch the surface.
I got here through a series of tubes
I'd be amused to find out what would lie behind vaticano.xxx
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Why do you plan on filtering at home?
Jack of all trades,master of none
I think that was the intended point: 0.00001% of non-.xxx blocked, while 100% of .xxx blocked - it shows that companies using an xxx domain will also provide access via other TLDs as well
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
Will the people in those countries be paying for Pr0n?
.XXX be blocked in those countries. Not a problem for paysites, the free sites might not be so quick to join up.
Even if they could afford it, when the government controls the banks (had to resist making an ISR joke here) how could they? I can think of three nations off the top of my head who will block a $30 P/m pr0n site, yet you can get a shag from a live girl for less then that (in one of them, you could probably get two depending on your negotiating skills).
What kind of person pays for Pr0n these days. Would
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
While reciting the pledge of allegiance? That's just going too far.
I think he means he's reciting the pledge of allegiance.
But now I think about it, there's Nazi fetish pr0n, why not US patriotism fetish pr0n.
Rule 34, I'll assume this one to be fulfilled, I have a high tolerance for freaky things but this would be beyond my ability to bear.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.