Friday, June 25, 2010

"XXX" Domain for Porn Sites?

My friend Stupid Monkey Planet sent me the link below. I think the creation of an .xxx domain for internet porn sites is a nice, tidy way to "clean up" the internet. And I find it very strange that religious groups would oppose the idea on "moral" grounds. . .the porn is already out there!  But I doubt that this would work.  I'm sure that the big (and little) porn sites would snap up the .xxx domains, but what's going to stop them from keeping their .coms? "Voluntary" is the problem here, and "mandatory" would be almost impossible to enforce.

[Excerpt]

Internet bosses set to approve .xxx for porn sites

The company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead on Friday for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated on Thursday.


The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net. . .

Read more at: Yahoo News

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