I admit,.xxx is a novelty, but it's one the adult industry will want. Subsiquently, adult businesses will purchase them, and through the agreement, will be forced to rate their sites with ICRA. $60 a year is peanuts to these businesses, and the same is true for all other high priced domains.
And if you can write a perl script that can 1) verify that the site's rating is accurate, and 2) call the number listed and determine a real person is on the other end that is affiliated with the business, I invite you to create it. I'm sure it would be worth quite a bit.
No one seems to understand this topic so I'm going to do my best to bring you all up to speed.
As a point of interest, I have attended ICANN conferences, and I know personally members of various ICANN subcomitees, as well as know personally the two gentlemen behind.xxx.
A.xxx domain would cost in the neighborhood of $60 to register. Some of this money goes to ICANN obviously, but the rest will be used to make sure the site complies with the rules and regulations associated with the aggrement that goes along with a registration. For example, the sites may not use any models under the age of 18, they must follow some best practices such as not having annnoying popup ads that can not be closed, etc..xxx is not attempting to remove porn from.com or any other TLD, it will simply be another domain a site can register. However, as part of the agreement, all other doians owned by the company that registers the domain must also comply with the standards and practices required of the.xxx domain. A.xxx domain will also only be able to be purchased by a company with a legitimate adult business. For example, suicidegirls.xxx would be a valid registration, but disney.xxx could never be registered because there can not be a porn business named disney.
Also as part of the agreement, the business myst have an actual person as a contact, with a valid phone number.
They must also rate their site with ICRA, a web standard meta tag that most filtering software uses to determine the content of a site and whether ot not it is sutible for the filter to show.
I'm not personally affiliated with.xxx, despite the fact I know those involved, but I see no reason why it, or any other TLD for that matter shouldn't be approved. The catholic league or what ever specific christian orginization is against.xxx doesn't have any idea the benefits it will have as far as cleaning up the internet and ultimately protecting children from adult content.
The people who have been trying to get.xxx off the ground know what they're doing. I've met both of them, and they're comitted to making it work the way it should.
Someone can only register a.xxx if they a) already have an adult entertainment business with the name of the domain they are trying to register, or b) are in the process of making such a business.
These people will be audited regularly to make sure they are, in fact, a legitimate adult business, and are not hosting anything illegal like nude pictures of underage children.
Other businesses who have a vested interest in not having someone take the.xxx tld with their name will be protected (disney.xxx will never exist).
This is why the cost for these domains is in the range of $70 and not $5.49 -- this is the cost of keeping up with all the registrees. It's not like going to godaddy and getting a.org, there is a substantial process to prove who you are and what your business is.
I'm actually at the ICANN conference in Luxembourg right now and I was in an At-Large Advisory Committee meeting when the people who are going to be running.mobi ( http://www.mtldinfo.com/> )announced that it had just been signed in the night before. (And I posted this news to slashdot two days ago, but it wasn't deemed worthy at the time.)
Anyway, there is a lot of talk about the usefulness of these new sponsored TLD's such as.mobi,.xxx,.museum, etc. Many of them have failed (.museum,.aero) and many have potential (.jobs,.xxx). However these are all aimed at the english-speaking portion of the web, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because as far as most Americans are concerned, the only TLD's that exist are.com,.org,.net, and.edu. Anything else is just annoying. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, the TLD for their country is the most desirable. For the UK, it's.uk, for here in Lux, it's.lu.
For those of you that don't know a sponsored TLD is one that is controlled and not just anyone can buy them..jobs for example will only sell domains to organizations that employ people..xxx will only sell to the adult industry. These people pay a premium (in the case of.xxx, $10 US per domain) that goes back into the system to make sure that the TLD is going out to the right people, and in the case of.xxx, to make sure domains that are sold are not being used for child pornography.
The.mobi people seem to have lots of corporate support to their cause, including cell phone manufacturers and service providers, but they have no strict rules that all.mobi sites must be compliant with cell phones. It would be very easy to get a domain and fill it with flash or other code that would simply not work on mobile phones and no one would care.
It seems to me that.mobi will end up another failed TLD like.biz and.pro
Does anyone know if this is carnivore? I wonder if this tracking software works on both PCs and Macs, or if the FBI has bothered to develop it for Macs, since the installed base is less. Public Macs might still be safe. Does anyone know what Hartford Library has?
...anyone would buy a cd these days anyway (It's not doing much good to the artist, I'd just as soon send them a personal check for $15) is for the case/cd art and insert that you get. Charging $10 for something that is normally $15 may seem like a deal to some people, but the record company isn't spending any money on materials or shipping. If anything, they would be making more money from digital sales like this than they would off a normal cd from a physical store. How much you want to bet the atrists don't see any of that extra cash?:\
I think the answer here is that humans are writing these chess programs, and therefore they are limited bu the restraints of human thought. A freight locomotive on the other hand is only constricted by the laws of physics.
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I'm sorry, but I completly disagree with you.
.xxx is a novelty, but it's one the adult industry will want. Subsiquently, adult businesses will purchase them, and through the agreement, will be forced to rate their sites with ICRA. $60 a year is peanuts to these businesses, and the same is true for all other high priced domains.
I admit,
And if you can write a perl script that can 1) verify that the site's rating is accurate, and 2) call the number listed and determine a real person is on the other end that is affiliated with the business, I invite you to create it. I'm sure it would be worth quite a bit.
No one seems to understand this topic so I'm going to do my best to bring you all up to speed.
.xxx.
.xxx domain would cost in the neighborhood of $60 to register. Some of this money goes to ICANN obviously, but the rest will be used to make sure the site complies with the rules and regulations associated with the aggrement that goes along with a registration. For example, the sites may not use any models under the age of 18, they must follow some best practices such as not having annnoying popup ads that can not be closed, etc. .xxx is not attempting to remove porn from .com or any other TLD, it will simply be another domain a site can register. However, as part of the agreement, all other doians owned by the company that registers the domain must also comply with the standards and practices required of the .xxx domain. A .xxx domain will also only be able to be purchased by a company with a legitimate adult business. For example, suicidegirls.xxx would be a valid registration, but disney.xxx could never be registered because there can not be a porn business named disney.
.xxx, despite the fact I know those involved, but I see no reason why it, or any other TLD for that matter shouldn't be approved. The catholic league or what ever specific christian orginization is against .xxx doesn't have any idea the benefits it will have as far as cleaning up the internet and ultimately protecting children from adult content.
As a point of interest, I have attended ICANN conferences, and I know personally members of various ICANN subcomitees, as well as know personally the two gentlemen behind
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Also as part of the agreement, the business myst have an actual person as a contact, with a valid phone number.
They must also rate their site with ICRA, a web standard meta tag that most filtering software uses to determine the content of a site and whether ot not it is sutible for the filter to show.
I'm not personally affiliated with
The people who have been trying to get .xxx off the ground know what they're doing. I've met both of them, and they're comitted to making it work the way it should.
.xxx if they a) already have an adult entertainment business with the name of the domain they are trying to register, or b) are in the process of making such a business.
.xxx tld with their name will be protected (disney.xxx will never exist).
.org, there is a substantial process to prove who you are and what your business is.
Someone can only register a
These people will be audited regularly to make sure they are, in fact, a legitimate adult business, and are not hosting anything illegal like nude pictures of underage children.
Other businesses who have a vested interest in not having someone take the
This is why the cost for these domains is in the range of $70 and not $5.49 -- this is the cost of keeping up with all the registrees. It's not like going to godaddy and getting a
I'm actually at the ICANN conference in Luxembourg right now and I was in an At-Large Advisory Committee meeting when the people who are going to be running .mobi ( http://www.mtldinfo.com/> )announced that it had just been signed in the night before. (And I posted this news to slashdot two days ago, but it wasn't deemed worthy at the time.)
.mobi, .xxx, .museum, etc. Many of them have failed (.museum, .aero) and many have potential (.jobs, .xxx). However these are all aimed at the english-speaking portion of the web, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because as far as most Americans are concerned, the only TLD's that exist are .com, .org, .net, and .edu. Anything else is just annoying. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, the TLD for their country is the most desirable. For the UK, it's .uk, for here in Lux, it's .lu.
.jobs for example will only sell domains to organizations that employ people. .xxx will only sell to the adult industry. These people pay a premium (in the case of .xxx, $10 US per domain) that goes back into the system to make sure that the TLD is going out to the right people, and in the case of .xxx, to make sure domains that are sold are not being used for child pornography.
.mobi people seem to have lots of corporate support to their cause, including cell phone manufacturers and service providers, but they have no strict rules that all .mobi sites must be compliant with cell phones. It would be very easy to get a domain and fill it with flash or other code that would simply not work on mobile phones and no one would care.
.mobi will end up another failed TLD like .biz and .pro
Anyway, there is a lot of talk about the usefulness of these new sponsored TLD's such as
For those of you that don't know a sponsored TLD is one that is controlled and not just anyone can buy them.
The
It seems to me that
Does anyone know if this is carnivore? I wonder if this tracking software works on both PCs and Macs, or if the FBI has bothered to develop it for Macs, since the installed base is less. Public Macs might still be safe. Does anyone know what Hartford Library has?
...anyone would buy a cd these days anyway (It's not doing much good to the artist, I'd just as soon send them a personal check for $15) is for the case/cd art and insert that you get. Charging $10 for something that is normally $15 may seem like a deal to some people, but the record company isn't spending any money on materials or shipping. If anything, they would be making more money from digital sales like this than they would off a normal cd from a physical store. How much you want to bet the atrists don't see any of that extra cash? :\
I think the answer here is that humans are writing these chess programs, and therefore they are limited bu the restraints of human thought. A freight locomotive on the other hand is only constricted by the laws of physics.