Fate of porn domain left in government hands

Let me get this straight

Porn is invited to be on .xxx

Puritanical countries (e.g. Australia) and other fundamentalist districts (e.g. states in the USA) block all .xxx domains

There is no profit in being on .xxx as there are no customers

Porn remains on .com, .net etc

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Is that about right?

Politicians eh? Tch.

>GAC states its concern that domains such as .xxx, which may end up being blocked by some censorious regimes, could eventually lead to alternate domain name systems being set up, fragmenting the internet.

As opposed to the block lists that all nations have, usually produced without any form of legal intervention.

And the filters.

And the snooping.

And the Big Brother recording, as planned by, amongst others, that most censorious of regimes, our own duffers. No change from £10bn there on setting up, and millions a year to keep it going. Still, they have an almost unlimited amount of money to screw from public spending and tax revenue, so the costs won't bother them.

As for alternate DNSs. They are inevitable anyway, but for political and religious reasons rather than to avoid the shock of seeing naked people. Maybe an Islamic or Chinese one first. You could argue that bit torrent acts as an alternate mechanism for online distribution, and that gets blocked and throttled.

It's probably too late for .xxx to actually do the job it was intended to as the internet equivalent of the TV watershed, in theory easy enough for the dumbest parents to block, although their kids would probably find a way round it. Maybe ten or fifteen years ago it could have moved mainstream porn from the mainstream domains, but asking politicians to be less than a decade behind public use of technology is asking too much.

Depends on how much the White House feels the need to suck up to the repulsive religious right this term.

Of course we could just all stop being such bloody prudes.

Naked people: Not that big a deal really.

I have a plan.

Let's move at the pace of humanity's slowest member! Bring everyone down the lowest common denominator! Backwards countries censor things on the net? Let’s all do so pre-emptively!

Heaven forbid we actually try to enlighten them and bring them forward into a more progressive, open and accepting society. No, instead let’s whimper like scared children when they bust out some argument about “your views and beliefs aren’t the only ones and ours are just as valid!”

They are...until you start contravening an individuals fundamental rights. There are rights. They are defined in the UDHR. If your belief system is incompatible then I am sorry but there is no reason on this earth that the rest of humanity should be held back by your complete inability to move on. If you want to stay in your little world and cultivate ignorance you go right ahead. I will personally help you built the wall that separates you from the rest of the world.

Humanity will move on, and we will quite simply leave you behind. Culturally, sociologically, technologically. We cannot be bound by the pace the slowest and most scared among us choose to move at. We should not force our beliefs upon them…but we shouldn’t allow them to hold us back either.

Let's drop all the pretense...

This isn't about censorship. Nor is it about content filtering. It isn't even about porn per se. It is about money.

One the one hand you have a company wanting officialdom's approval for its own monopolistic top level domain so that it can make millions flogging domain names that cost effectively nothing at hugely inflated prices. Everyone else is quite rightly looking at that and asking "and just why should you be given an exclusive and monopolistic opportunity to make money for no work?"

When you cut out all the surrounding crap it is easy to see just how much real credibility the .xxx proposal has.

from the perspective of someone invested in it

I've been in the adult industry for many many years and throughout my reading of this I never came across anything that has stated that if the .xxx gets passed that all porn would have to get moved to it.

The whole problem with this is how to make money on it and it starts with ICANN and works it's way up through governments.

The first time we gave this .com.net.org stuff a shot domains were what $100. That made sense because people wouldn't buy random domains to spam from because after awhile it became rather expensive.

That as broken up and as a result of it ICANN got tons of money for anyone wanting to sell a domain. However as all the domains are being bought up now ICANN needs a new method of generating endless revenue.

You'll have companies like godaddy giving away .infos for like $1/year but .info's aren't the best tld's to spam from so the spammers run to the other cheap tld's.

I and everyone else will choose what we are going to allow into our networks. To block porn you wouldn't necessarily have to block a domain or a tld you can simply block the networks that host it.

We have allowed ourselves to become slaves in this country with the cable monopolies piping pornography right into your house.

The sicko left-wing of the world isn't the the majority and all this liberalism that has been permitted so far has only taken a sledge hammer to the morals of the world.

The .xxx is simply all about money and the execution. They have been stalling on it for years because they don't want to execute it wrong and lose money.

It's all money, it's all ICANN, ICANN is only about the money.

And let's not forget about the governments.