ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains

Velcroman1 writes "The World Wide Web red-light district is poised to explode. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet's governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the adult entertainment industry on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — otherwise called the 'begin printing money phase.' The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch of .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM Registry began accepting .xxx applications from trademarked companies — those looking to use a .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website."

Re:goatse.xxx

[masternerdguy]

Actually its not a bad idea. It's an awesome way to extort more money for domain hosting to offset the steadily dropping costs. If you don't register your XXX domain, someone else will. It's practically legalized extortion!

Re:google.xxx

[DNS-and-BIND]

They already have that, it's called Xvideos.com [xvideos.com].

Phase names

[sootman]

> The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch
> of .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM
> Registry began accepting .xxx applications from
> trademarked companies — those looking to use
> a .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their
> company from appearing on a .xxx website

... which is, in turn, known as the "extortion" phase.