Porn sites to get their own Internet domain

Reuters ^ | 6/2/05 | Andy Sullivan

[Billthedrill]

Does this mean porn will be on the Internet in future?

Sounds like it might. Never seen it, myself. But I've heard of folks who have.

The whole thing is useless anyway - my pornograph doesn't have the right drivers for my 386...

[L.N. Smithee]

Then they wont. Why would they do something that would make it easier to filter them out?

Exactly. This puts the lie to any phony pledge to keep the kids away.

Porn is easier for children to view than at anytime in history. Just half a century ago, adults would have to sneak into a Pussycat theater or a bookstore in a raincoat to watch pre-Lovelace films. The VCR killed the porno movie house industry and exploded home video. Cable TV broadcast softcore porn into the home, and later, satellite brought XXX.

Now, a kid whose parents don't watch him/her like a hawk every minute s/he is online inevitably gets a link to XXX sites through email without even soliciting it. You used to have to go to get porn; now, porn comes to get you.

It would have been wonderful if ICANN had required the switch from .com to .xxx just to see the industry struggle to explain why it would be a bad thing.

[yooper]

My boy, with your screen name, you could be a STAR!

[tomakaze]

re:Pornography accounts for more than 10 percent of online traffic and there are more than 1 million porn Web sites currently online, according to ICM.
 
somehow i think this estimate is on the low side lol.