Porn sites to get their own Internet domain

Reuters ^ | 6/2/05 | Andy Sullivan

[jbstrick]

easier to block.

[Oztrich Boy]

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

[Michael Goldsberry]

Pornography accounts for more than 10 percent of online traffic

Slackers!

[wyattearp]

Sex sites won't be required to sign up for .xxx addresses.

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

[ken5050]

I have a techie question, I guess you would call it..from one who is a Tech Luddite assume ythere is a pron site.."sex.com"..you'd think the owners wouldn't what to give it up, and they aren't being forced to..but they would also probably want to register "sex.xxx" can the two sites be the same..parallel, I guess you'd say..with both linking to the same site?

[ruiner]

yea, they can route traffic from one domain to another.

[pissant]

and 1/2 of that is transexual porn. Your fave! ;o)

[Random Nonsense]

the answer is YES.

[HAL9000]

easier to block.

It will take the average teenager about 10 seconds to convert the domain name to an IP address.

The only thing the dot-xxx domain will result in is more Internet porn. It is strictly a marketing gimmick.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

Pornography accounts for more than 10 percent of online traffic

In the same way that the Navy reports that nuclear submarines can go "faster than 20kts."

[ken5050]

I fugured as much, but it seemed waaay to obvious..and I didn't want to seem stupid..so isn't that what will happen?..in effect, we'll just DOUBLE the number of porn sites?

[freedumb2003]

Great.

Now every legitimate company will have to once again buy another license to redurect traffic (especially if it is generic).

Every time they do this they make it worse, not better. Almost no one exclusively uses the ".tv" domain -- there is almost always a corresponding ".com" address (although they ave to be creative sometimes).

[Dead Dog]

It'll be interesting if they are businesses, and would like to be easily found by those looking for them, or if they are there simple to be a corrosive agent on society. If they choose the later, then they should be hacked badly.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Yuck.

You're going to owe me a barf bag soon.

[pissant]

I signed you up for duty on the other thread!

[upchuck]

Seems to me ICANN has given the porn sites an easy way to avoid further stigmatization.

It would be in the site's best interest to switch to the .xxx designation.

They can forward access requests to their .com address to their .xxx address. This should allow the filters to trap for the .xxx designation.

Pron sites should go ahead and take advantage of this.

[cryptical]

It would be in the site's best interest to switch to the .xxx designation.

For some value of "best interest" that includes less traffic? Whatever.

[No Longer Free State]

Have you heard this idea somewhere before?

Ping

[King Prout]

believe it or not, there are folks in that business who handle their business responsibly.

on a practical side: ease of filtration means fewer complaints to their server host, which in turn reduces the risk of having their sites yanked off the web.