Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains 127
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from the thinking-long-and-hard dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx' Internet suffix as an online red-light district, beginning a 70-day process of consultations on a domain that could help parents block access to adult sites. ICM Registry LLC first proposed the '.xxx' domain in 2000, and ICANN has rejected it three times already since then, but an outside panel last month questioned the board's latest rejection in 2007, prompting the board to reopen the bid. Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to clean up its act, though some adult sites worry that governments would wind up mandating the use of '.xxx' and that sites with the '.xxx' suffix could easily be blocked by government web filters in the future. 'I am very concerned and fearful of censoring adult material that should be made available for adults. It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com, adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone for slashdot.xxx ?
Not a bad idea, we could use it to have nude pictures of slashdotters.
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:5, Funny)
Won't work for me. I don't have a wide aspect screen yet.
Look at just some of the ancillary... (Score:4, Funny)
Look at some of the ancillary companies that would be affected
The Kao Corporation [The makers of Jergens Lotion]
Kimberly-Clark [The makers of Kleenex brand tissues]
HanesBrands [Worldwide distributors of gym socks]
S. C. Johnson & Son [Manufactures of several cleaning agents, including Windex]
Safer Networking Limited [Developer of Spybot - Search and Destroy]
Chiquita Brands International Inc. [Grower of the famous Chiquita Banana]
Maytag Corporation [World famous creator of Washing Machines]
Won't somebody think of the private industry?!
Clean porn ? No thanks ! (Score:5, Funny)
"Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to clean up its act,"
Personally, I'd prefer if they kept the acts nice 'n' dirty.
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:2, Funny)
How did you know my dick was huge?
Re:Well (Score:4, Funny)
I only watch porn for the plot and character development.
My picks for the .xxx domains in the US (Score:1, Funny)
My initial list of what organizations that would be required to use .xxx domains in the United States:
and for the coup de grâce, anything that would be considered offensive by local community standards would be automatically redirected to a .xxx address (www.foo.com -> www.foo.com.xxx) by the local ISPs serving that community.
Finally, taking the .xxx idea to its logical conclusion, any adult oriented material can only be sold from .xxx domains. Books like Lolita or Catcher in the Rye, or "gansta" rap could only be sold from www.amazon.xxx or www.itunes.xxx. Information about shows like South Park or Family Guy would be under www.comedycentral.xxx or www.tvguide.xxx
Re:Well (Score:5, Funny)
Yes Dude, I hear you. I recently watched a porn named "Logjammin" and was disrupted before the end. Since then, I started to wonder what had happend next: Did he fix the cable or didn't he?
Re:Its not stopping you from looking at pornograph (Score:1, Funny)
I always wondered why I got random boners when walking grandmom down the street. Now I know grandmom was just pornography!
Duh (Score:2, Funny)