Celebrities Flock To Reserve .xxx Domains

hypnosec writes "Celebrities have moved swiftly to block their names from the .xxx domain, which is meant for websites that offer pornographic content. Thousands of celebrities have contacted ICM Registry to put their names on the permanently reserved list so that no one will be able to start offering porn under their name. The domain registration company, ICM Registry, failed to give out the list of domain names it had blocked nor it is willing to tell how long the list is. On a lighter note, OsamaBinLaden.xxx has been also blocked and we assume the Al Qaeda would have demanded to reserve the domain."

Re:people can be creative

[mtinsley]

You can't use underscores in domain names.

Re:This is stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

Inbound, to protect averagely uninterested users from accidentally exposing their routers configuration interface to the world.

(25 to prevent access to open relays on customers' computers, 135 and 139 to prevent access to unprotected SMB shares)

Re:protection racket

[jhoegl]

I saw no cost to add to "reserve" list.

Re:Congratulations ICANN

[petman]

From what I understand from TFA, the celebrities don't have to pay to get on the list, so no one's making money out of this.

Re:protection racket

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw no cost to add to "reserve" list.

I did.

There are no corporate trademarks on the reserved list. Companies that want to make sure their brands do not appear with a .xxx extension are expected to pay between $200 and $650 to to make sure they are removed from the pool of available names.