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The company behind a proposal to create .xxx, an adults-only top-level internet domain, is set to run the gauntlet of objections from angry pornographers and appalled Christians for the sixth time. ICANN last week published a draft contract that, if signed, could allow Florida-based ICM Registry to start offering .xxx domains …

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  1. Dazed and Confused

    @why

    Because putting all the pr0n sites in one place would just make it easier for their precious kids to find what they are looking for, not that they normally need any help.

  2. James Woods

    hrm

    Why does "child protection" always find itself labeled in with the adult industry.

    The last time I checked, the real child predators are in government.

    How about our safe school czar that thinks it's fine for men to have sexual relations with pre-teen boys.

    So sick and tired of see'ing this label put on the adult industry. I've been looking at porn since i've been on the computer (not constantly) and i've never even as much of stumbled upon it.

    You sure as hell won't find it on any pro sites.

    The adult industry is against this proposal for financial reasons. It's a great idea to have .xxx, makes it very easy for people to restrict access to *.xxx rather than a million .com names.

    1. Hegghogg

      Why?

      "Why does "child protection" always find itself labeled in with the adult industry. [...] So sick and tired of see'ing this label put on the adult industry. I've been looking at porn since i've been on the computer (not constantly) and i've never even as much of stumbled upon it."

      Maybe it's because of the persistent use in the media of the term 'child porn' to describe images of the violent sexual abuse of children. This usage is rarely challenged, yet it conditions the public to believe that such acts somehow equate to, or are a form of, pornography. That in turn leads to the assumption that one will invariably lead to the other.

      Whether or not we personally approve of the adult entertainment industry, we can look at this one in two ways: this casual mislabelling either tars that legal industry with shades of child abuse; or it excuses child abuse by applying to it a euphemism far more innocuous than it deserves.

  3. Flybert
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    just let it go through

    ICM will lose their asses, go bankrupt and get sued by the few that got sucked into buying a .xxx for $60 per year

    A win-win for pornographers and the Christian fundamentalists .. how amusing ..

  4. robert247
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    Ameritards - priceless!

    I work with them and will now be actively campaigning to introduce this word into the common lexicon - oh yes... revenge is MINE! Mwahahaha!

  5. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    So let me get this straight...

    Pornographers wanting a .xxx domain would have to have their business verified and would have to meet certain minimum standards of not being a jackass. In other words...it would be an entire TLD for legitimate and ONLY legitimate porn.

    FANTASTIC idea. Basically, it gives me a great reason to install a porn blocker for every TLD that is not .xxx. .xxx pornographers would have to meet a certain level of "not being a society-ruining asshat" and most likely "not being a malware harbouring computer ruining asshat." I support this wholeheartedly.

    I wish we could do this with other industries. Then one day we could reach a point where we just collectively ban ".com" as the horrifying wasteland of the internet.

  6. ShaggyDoggy

    Connection

    Will someone please explain what religion has to do with online porn ?

  7. uninventiveheart
    FAIL

    Bad idea.

    Ignoring the onus that Christians may feel on this matter, appeasing the religious right is pointless only for the fact that they will oppose any measure on porn except outlawing it. Largely a waste of time for them and us... But they will do what they do without compromise and count this as a hollow victory against the porn industry when losing it makes no fundamental change to their fight.

    The cost of such domains need to be equal to .com or less, or adult entertainment groups will never use it. Beside the fact that the proposed TLD isn't being enforced on existing adult-content sites anyway, so the filtering argument for it's passing is weak as well.

    Approving this is a waste of time.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Railing against America-centric global utilities

    I can't help but wonder if this would still be a story if a non-american company was the one starting this. Dutch for example, or perhaps even Swiss.

    Gotta love the ever Altruistic ICAAN....

  9. Anonymous Coward
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    Excellent news - let it work

    Only the vocal minority are against this.

    I have yet to speak to a single fellow website owner in the adult world who is against this.

    Maybe those who own good .com domains do not want to risk loosing them in the future, and not getting the same .xxx domains. perhaps this is closer to the truth.

    For others that do not have such a good domain name, this is good news.

    Let us hope that ICANN are the ones with the balls and can push this through at last.

    1. Graham Marsden
      WTF?

      Dear AC, which site do *you* run?

      "I have yet to speak to a single fellow website owner in the adult world who is against this."

      Really? And exactly how many have you spoken to? Because I, as just one website owner who supplies adult products am entirely against this as a waste of time and energy which will just increase my costs, add extra bureaucratic hassle which I don't need and do *NOTHING* to benefit my business.

      I think you will find it is only a vocal minority who are in favour of this.

      As for: "For others that do not have such a good domain name, this is good news."

      Is it really? Do you think that someone who has anyadultdomain.co.uk will get preferential treatment if .xxx is brought in and will be the first person allow to register anyadultdomain.xxx?

      Of course not, what will happen is a frantic "land grab" where the cybersquatters and domain resellers will bombard the system with applications for all the "good" domain names (and probably every other adult related domain name they can find and then offer to sell them to legitimate businesses for many thousands of pounds or dollars more than the $60 registration fee they paid.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    Surely it's .wnk

    Isn't that the whole purpose of online pr0n?

  11. Anonymous Coward
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    @Tim Bates et al.

    " I also would like the extension where ALL porn sites MUST use this TLD so that people wanting to filter porn can do so very easily."

    What a shame, part of being a grown up is accepting that we very rarely actually get what we want. Most of the rest of being a grown up is the realisation that when we do get what we want it often isn't really "what we want", but I digress.

    You can't force legitimate groups to be corralled in a way you want, just because you have a problem with that group. Filtering porn is already very easy and if you let your children or children you have responsibility for access the web unsupervised then the problem is most certainly with you and not with the pornographers.

    "I have this view not just because I'm a Christian, but because I work for a school. If most porn was hosted on a single TLD restricted for porn use, then filter lists would be very short and fast."

    I have a better idea. Take all the sites you know are wholesome and put them in a white list. Filtering is much easier there and you have the benefit of knowing that your children can only access things that you agree with them being able to access. No surprises and no bad things.

    Look, the internet is not a child's toy. It never has been and it never will be. If you think the internet is not a good place for your children to hang out alone then either supervise them or remove their access to the internet (either through whitelists or completely).

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    "pornographers could sue to block .xxx's passage"

    Fnarr fnarr. That is all.

  13. Stuart Halliday
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    let's do it

    You can see why they wouldn't like it.

    hosts file:

    127.0.0.1 localhost

    127.0.0.1 .xxx

    Too simple to block or to search your logs for staff breaking policy if you're a IT bod?

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Fun?

    @Paul S. Gaszo, "And stop worrying so much about your kids learning that sex is fun. You figured it out and they will to, no matter what you do."

    Learning that sex is fun? I'm not uptight about porn (despite being a US'ian), but frankly there's a large quantity of low quality porn, where nobody involved appears to be having a bit of fun.

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