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Meh, I understand their intent behind it but honestly it's too little way too late. When Giuliani cleaned up NYC's Times Square (if I remember this correctly)
by 51Cards 16y ago
Meh, I understand their intent behind it but honestly it's too little way too late.
When Giuliani cleaned up NYC's Times Square (if I remember this correctly) he enacted a law that said adult establishments had to be X meters from main streets, etc. etc. Whatever the details were the net effect was he pushed them all onto the back streets and immediately Times Square turned into Disney Stores, etc.
For the XXX TLD to be successful the same thing would have to happen, existing domains would have to be pushed to the internet's red light district. The reason is that none of the existing 2 quintillion porn sites is going to voluntarily change their domain and obliterate all their existing traffic. Since there is no ruling body that can push them over there (let alone all the debate over whether that would even be legal) the number of them that are going to move by choice should be right around Zero.
Not such a bad idea, but really the new corral should have been build before the wild cows escaped, spread out across the wild west, got comfortable, and had several generations of offspring.
- adsr 16y agoOver a long period of time (say 10 years) I could see this working as intended. All current .com domains would probably have to get their identical .xxx domain for free however so they could re-direct traffic to their new .xxx domain. Why would they do this? I don't know.
- beaumartinez 16y agoYes, but it now allows for a plethora of new domains to be registered. Type anything marginally sex-related and put .com on the end and I assure you it's already taken; new websites would either need very long or non-obvious domain names. Additionally, .xxx reinforces the point of the site: leather.xxx is pretty obvious, n'est-ce pas?
- wmf 16y agoThe problem is that anyone who has foo.com has right of first refusal on foo.xxx, so .xxx will mostly end up as a mirror of a subset of .com.
- extension 16y agoThe purpose of the new TLD is not to segregate the internet, that's just what the porn sites fear will somehow happen.
- joe_the_user 16y agoWhat do you mean, the purpose of the new TLD is to segregate the Internet. It won't work, it's a bad idea and it will mainly open a lot of new adult domains but it been sold as a way to segregate the Internet exactly as people imagine. And that's why a significant number of porn sites opposed the XXX domain as I recall (well, that and the devaluing of their existing domains).