Posted on 03/31/2007 10:36:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A longstanding proposal to create a specialized .xxx suffix for sex-related entertainment Web sites received a final rejection yesterday by the agency governing the Internet address system.
The plan, first introduced seven years ago by ICM Registry, was rejected by a vote of 9 to 5 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, at a meeting in Lisbon.
The issue will not be brought for further discussion by Icann, but ICM Registry, the Florida company that was also applying to manage the address, said it would continue to pursue the issue.
“We are extremely disappointed by the board’s action today,” Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM Registry, said. “It is not supportable for any of the reasons articulated by the board.”
Board members who voted against the plan expressed concern that it would compel Icann to become involved in regulating content, among other issues.
To ease concerns over promoting content, ICM had said that .xxx Web sites would be issued only to entertainment providers identifying themselves as complying with a set of business practices that included a ban on child pornography and warnings about content.
ICM had argued that creation of the domain would enhance safety for young users by clearly defining .xxx sites as a no-go zone.
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Very Good.
From the article....Religious groups expressed concern that creation of the .xxx domain would serve only to encourage creation of more sex-related content.
This is true. No one would expect these porn peddlers would give up their existing sites. If a new .xxx domain was created, it would only increase the perversion already in the internet.
Weird. Religious groups and pornographers allied together to stop it. One of those two is wrong-headed strategically. I wonder which.
Then why were the pornographers against it? I am confused as to why they would be against something that would increase and encourage their industry.
Maybe the guys who own the multi-million-dollar domains like sex.com don't want to see their assets devalued.
From the article....
The entertainment executives raised fears that use of the domain, although voluntary, could open the way for governments to isolate sex-oriented Web sites into a single part of the Internet.
And if these sleaze balls were forced to quit on their existing sites..... they would loses millions of $$$.
Because it is much easier to filter http://*.*.xxx then it is to filter each individual http://*.pornsitehere.*
Exactly!
If the net ever is regulated, it will be due to the porn sites that target your kids and mine.
.xxx domains are a terrible idea. I'm glad ICANN vetoed this.
When I see an example of someone who wants to put porn on the internet and can't because there's no domain names left I'll buy that.
I've always said the major problem would be getting pornographers to go along. They're outside U.S. laws so they have no incentive to go to the .xxx domain, although I like the idea in principle. It seems unenforceable.
"Keep y'doped with religion, sex and TV ..."
If anyone hasn't noticed, we're doing a pretty good re-enactment of what used to be ancient Rome.
BINGO!
I'm all for the xxx domain. It should be easier to block, and less chance of children stumbling onto porn sites. It also does nothing to ban porn for those who get frothing at the mouth when they think their porn content might be obstructed.
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