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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."
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.
Actually its not a bad idea. It's an awesome way to extort more money for domain hosting to offset the steadily dropping costs. If you don't register your XXX domain, someone else will. It's practically legalized extortion!
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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.
> 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?
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.
"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.
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
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... 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.
A few articles ago there was an article about a better way to pack balls into something.
Now this story.
Coincidence? You decide.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
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