[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).

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I think a .xxx domain is a great idea. You'd have new bidding wars on domains to go with it and an entirely new gold rush on the web. It gives one more control to distinguishing the web like .biz, .gov, .mil, .tv (I know, it's a country.) etc. Calling everything a .com or .net seems very limiting and doesn't really distinguish categories as well as the other domains may.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Unless companies are forced to use this domain, it's useless for filtering.

I agree, but I'm not sure that it couldn't be forced. We pass regulations on businesses all the time, including the porn industry. Why not force them to have the .xxx domain?

[so_real]

Unless companies are forced to use this domain, it's useless for filtering.

No force is necessary. There's a neat trick in the geek world called DNS (domain name services). Every time you connect to the Internet, your computer is provided two Name Servers that are used to convert domain names like www.freerepublic.com into numbers the machine can understand like 209.157.64.201. Try it out, click this http://209.157.64.201/. These Name Servers are provided by your ISP. It is a completely distributed system. Now if your ISP is provided a list of porn sites and their .xxx counterparts, and the ISP voluntarily serves one but not the other ... voila ... the companies are forced to use the .xxx domain without truly being governmentally "forced". The people govern themselves; if your ISP won't enforce the .xxx standards, pick a new ISP and stop funding the old one. Eventually, they will come around. I support this 100%.

[stompk]

I like the idea. I'd think it would be useless if it wasn't mandatory though.

my thing is there should be some way to protect kids from stumbling on this while trying to do regular research.
once popular example I remember was that for some time, www.whitehouse.com ( as opposed to www.whitehouse.gov ) was a porn site. I wonder how many kids stumbled into THAT. . .