[kharaku]

Unless companies are forced to use this domain, it's useless for filtering. (Such force would probably violate a lot of rights or something).

[traviskicks]

why does the DOC need to approve? I thought the internet was regulated by non profit private groups and completley out of teh hands of government?

[PMCarey]

I'm okay with this. In fact I've been suggesting it for years. But the trick is that you need some kind of regulation to back it up so that a porn site which is not "xxx" immediately loses its site name. It sure would make filtering a whole lot easier. Think of as online zoning.

[montag813]

Leave the marketplace alone. The government has not basis to inject itself into this situation.

[Hank Rearden]

Screw Big Stupid Government. Do it. I thought it was an obvious great idea 10 years ago.

[prion]

Me, I've always thought there should be and "adult" tag in the metadata. I'm guessing pornographers would use it voluntarily -- why waste bandwidth on kids without credit cards? These guys are in business.

[TheOtherOne]

I don't think the DOC has any say on this, ICANN already voted and approved the .xxx. It is voluntary and meaningless. Just as I can get TheOtherOne.org or whatever. All the porn sites will not stop using .com, they will add a .xxx to their listing. This is much ado about nothing...oh, except the $60 per .xxx domain name sold!

[StuLongIsland]

If they dont use the .xxx domain, and use .com instead, we can then say they are pushing this stuff on the rest of us who don't desire this, thus perhaps lead on to maybe some legal charges? No one is saying they can't publish, just where they can.

[jpsb]

Good idea, go for it, and the zoning analogy is exactly correct. Slight worry about precedent but not enough to oppose the idea.

[TheOtherOne]

I think all web pages should filter though a governemnt agency. We can have a web czar, then we can be protected from seeing things we shouldn't see.

[evets]

I don't think that they should start putting porn on the internet. It will ruin it. Plus, that's not what Al Gore had in mind, when he invented it. Love Story.

[TChris]

Since when did Internet domain naming fall under the purview of the DoC? Hasn't this always been controlled by IANA?

[NavyCanDo]

I have been saying this all along. But it will only work if you can enforce a law stating that all XXX material has to be on the adult server. And then this law must cross borders. Can you force a vulgar German website to move their stuff to the adult domain?
You would think the Internet providers would like it because they can charge for the extra service for those who want it, and the porn industry should benefit by having their own search engines and selling ad space.

Us parents need all the help we can get to shelter our kids from the flood of porn which now dominates the web. And maybe it will also help some normally good adults with their struggles with habitual porn viewing. It happens to the best of us and it affects millions of marriages. This would be a good method and it does not limit free speech.

And NO Internet filters are not a good option - Johnnie can still go to the library, or to his friends hose to view porn if not available at home.

[JohnnyZ]

A two-part approach might work if they introduced the .xxx domain first and then hit 'em with a restriction that they have to move their sites to .xxx

[Gradek]

Whatever happened to free speech and capitalism. First, I see very little wrong with porn. Sure there is some sick stuff out there, but censoring is never a good idea. Second, who gets to make the determination of what is porn? I trust no one to make that kind of decision, and whats next when the Dems get control?