idiots

As sayeth the Reg article: "particularly the US government, which had been the focus of a determined campaign by right-wing Christian groups".

What a bunch of morons. It's way easier to filter porn out if it ALL falls under .xxx rather than what is currently done. Of course, this would require (via law or registrar contract) to force porn to be on .xxx domains only, but in this scenario, everyone wins. Those that don't want accessible porn just block the .xxx domains and those that crave it can easily find what they are looking for.

AC

Re: idiots

Yes, the fundies are morons.

> ...those that crave it can easily find what they are looking for.

Are you for real? People that want πορν now can find it easily enough, nothing about .xxx is going to make it easier to find.

Anyone who thinks that .xxx is anything but another land grab and will somehow make things better is just fooling themselves.

No doubt we will eventually get legislation to restrict πορν to only .xxx domains -- I expect more so because our fine congress critters just can't not try to legislate morality and common sense. No need to give them any bright ideas though.

another tld money grab

.xxx will eventually happen, will be nothing but a money grab for icann, the registry, registrars, and will be of absolutely no use in filtering porn.

Idiots maybe

But the solution you describe isn't even on the table. It isn't an "everybody wins" result by any means either. What about all the owners of existing porn sites? Do they get kicked out of their old domains, or what? Sure they could go register the same name under .xxx but what about hotsex.com and hotsex.net, would they be forced to share or what? What about britishpornclips.co.uk? What right does ICANN have to tell an (ostensibly) sovereign nation what it can and can't put under its tld? Then there's situation of sites that are not primarily pornographic, but on occasion feature some mature content. Would it sounds like they would be forced to either move their whole site to xxx land, or else split it in two. Neither option sounds very attractive (or fair) to me.

We don't want an .xxx tld

What we really want is an .xxx tld but cunningly named .beer or .football or .widgetcollecting or better still .stufftokeepintheshed

That would flummox them there women & leave the pr0n browsing secret. What woman, in her right mind, will follow a link to www.hotties.football or www.toptotty.widgets

:-)

.zzz

This is so boring. *Obviously* whatever they decide will make no difference to the amount of smut, or evil smut, on the net and no difference to the ease or difficulty of finding it or filtering it. As others have said, the only real world result will be money in the pockets of registrars, registries, and domain squatters.

Of course, ICANN laid themselves open to this sort of crap as soon as they agreed to the first useless new gTLD back in whenever. So they deserve what they got, but it's a bit hard on today's ICANN Board members who weren't around when the nonsense started.

"...It is a question of ‘is ICANN going to do the right thing or not?’”

I think we know the answer to that one. In a lose-lose situation, whatever you do is the wrong thing.

Paris, 'cos we're *sure* she wants to be in .xxx soonest.

The domain name landscape's changed

...in the past few years, now anyone can stump up $50K or whatever it is and get their own custom TLD. So why doesn't someone simply register the XXX. TLD and then sell subdomains?

Seems like a real no-brainer to me.

Wait...

There's porn on the Internet?

The comments!?!?

After reading the first paragraph - and not caring about the details - I turned here for what I figured would be a bunch of smarmy and crude comments. Unfortunately the lot of you held a reasoned discussion. What give????

CA$H

"the ICANN Board will now reconsider the dot-xxx application and decision at its meeting in Nairobi next month"

...anyone who holds their meetings in Nairobi probably doesn't need to worry about $475,000 - it's just pocket change.

I suspect

rule34.xxx will sell for millions.

top-level pornography domain

The article doesn't tell us what domain contains this top-level pornography. I assume it's good stuff.

Oh wait...

Being realistic?

I suppose a dose of realism is important and I understand that the sector happens to be a multi-billion Euro, ESD, GBP, ... , Yen, ... concern.

So I suppose it is reasonable to give some sort of acceptance yet at the same time I hope there are means to keep the gangstah-types out.

And hope even more still that upholding .xxx means I can ever so easily ban stuff from ever appearing on computers I manage.

Irrelevant

Who cares what TLDs there are out there?

it just translates to a number.

Really - what does it matter what TLDs there are? An experienced user of t'interweb knows that any domain name can mean anything and resolve to any site. The name registered in DNS does not have to bear any resemblence to what the site actually does.

Would anybody reading this forum be surprised if they typed 'www.helloiamalegitimatewebsite.com' into their browser and ended up looking at a webpage listing local crack houses? Nope. DNS names mean nothing - it is a convenience.

Give em .xxx, give em whatever they want. Who cares?

And what about the grey areas?

I run a business making leather bondage gear. Whilst my site www.affordable-leather.co.uk has adult content (and appropriate warnings, is signed up to Net Nanny, Cyber Sitter et al) and is clearly not suitable for children, it's not "pornography", so should I be forced to dump my old domain (and have to re-do all my advertising and get all the links changed) to make it www.affordable-leather.xxx?

If not, what possible use is a .xxx TLD going to achieve except big commissions for the bidding war that will no doubt ensue for domains like sex.xxx and xxx.xxx which will probably sell for millions?

A priest books into a hotel and asks the receptionist...

"Is the porn channel in my room disabled?"

"No," she replies, "it's just regular porn you sicko"