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.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers

13 points by pwg 16y ago

gohat 16y ago
Interesting. While you may or may not agree with the .XXX domain, it seems that we are going to be getting a lot of new domain extensions. The new gTLD process is going to allow a lot more applicants in the next year or so.
- pstack 16y ago
  I find it amusing that sexual content is so horrific that it must be categorized and filtered. I don't see a TLD intended to 'classify-out' all of the violent racist hate websites. It's a matter of time before corrupt MPAA style bureaucracies start to force the labeling and filtering of every piece of content out there. And god help you if your website has more than one type of content on it.
navs 16y ago
If .XXX does end up as the preferred domain for all adult content then that should make content filtering easy.
- davidu 16y ago
  No it won't because there is already so much adult content on other TLDs that won't go away.
  - pstack 16y ago
    It will when you criminalize it and equate it in the public's mind with "putting Hustler magazine on the shelves of your local library's children's section".
davidu 16y ago
This will be much ado about nothing. Despite being an industry-sponsored TLD, the industry does not want it. It doesn't help in blocking content for young children. It doesn't help adults find content they want. It accomplishes nothing but take money. I expect it will have far less than 1/10 the registrations .co had in the first year.
- qeorge 16y ago
  100% disagree. I expect .xxx will be 10x as popular as .co. .co is just a cheap mispelling of .com that doesn't mean anything to average Americans. .xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids). Obviously, its going to be a long time (ever?) before anything touches .com. But amongst the also-rans, I think .xxx will be a hit.
  - w1ntermute 16y ago
    > Obviously, its going to be a long time (ever?) before anything touches .com. Not so long if the US government continues seizing domain names.
    - davidu 16y ago
      See: COICA -- any TLD is vulnerable.
      - w1ntermute 16y ago
        And if the TLD is under the control of another country?
  - gloob 16y ago
    Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? Edit: I mean, I've heard people argue that it would help the porn sites curry favor with parents, but I really have a tough time imagining that actually turning into more money for the porn sites (though I admit that I really know nothing about the industry).
    - qeorge 16y ago
      Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? I'm sure they wouldn't. My assumption, which could be wrong, is that many adults want to access porn websites, but don't want their kids to. For them, requiring a password to visit any .xxx site would be very user friendly. So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen.
Cyranix 16y ago
Surprisingly, http://porn.xxx http://porn.xxx _is_ safe for work -- it's an informational page tied to http://icmregistry.com http://icmregistry.com. It seems like competition for porn-related domain names will be condensed into a very small space within the .xxx TLD. I'm curious to see whether the general public accepts TLDs as semantically relevant, or whether it remains about as important to the average Internet user as the protocol component of a URL.
gamble 16y ago
Already blocked in India: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-india_n_841839.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-...

13 points by pwg 16y ago

gohat 16y ago

Interesting. While you may or may not agree with the .XXX domain, it seems that we are going to be getting a lot of new domain extensions. The new gTLD process is going to allow a lot more applicants in the next year or so.

pstack 16y ago
I find it amusing that sexual content is so horrific that it must be categorized and filtered. I don't see a TLD intended to 'classify-out' all of the violent racist hate websites. It's a matter of time before corrupt MPAA style bureaucracies start to force the labeling and filtering of every piece of content out there. And god help you if your website has more than one type of content on it.

navs 16y ago

If .XXX does end up as the preferred domain for all adult content then that should make content filtering easy.

davidu 16y ago
No it won't because there is already so much adult content on other TLDs that won't go away.
- pstack 16y ago
  It will when you criminalize it and equate it in the public's mind with "putting Hustler magazine on the shelves of your local library's children's section".

davidu 16y ago

This will be much ado about nothing. Despite being an industry-sponsored TLD, the industry does not want it. It doesn't help in blocking content for young children. It doesn't help adults find content they want. It accomplishes nothing but take money. I expect it will have far less than 1/10 the registrations .co had in the first year.

qeorge 16y ago
100% disagree. I expect .xxx will be 10x as popular as .co. .co is just a cheap mispelling of .com that doesn't mean anything to average Americans. .xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids). Obviously, its going to be a long time (ever?) before anything touches .com. But amongst the also-rans, I think .xxx will be a hit.
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  > Obviously, its going to be a long time (ever?) before anything touches .com. Not so long if the US government continues seizing domain names.
  - davidu 16y ago
    See: COICA -- any TLD is vulnerable.
    - w1ntermute 16y ago
      And if the TLD is under the control of another country?
- gloob 16y ago
  Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? Edit: I mean, I've heard people argue that it would help the porn sites curry favor with parents, but I really have a tough time imagining that actually turning into more money for the porn sites (though I admit that I really know nothing about the industry).
  - qeorge 16y ago
    Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? I'm sure they wouldn't. My assumption, which could be wrong, is that many adults want to access porn websites, but don't want their kids to. For them, requiring a password to visit any .xxx site would be very user friendly. So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen.

Cyranix 16y ago

Surprisingly, http://porn.xxx http://porn.xxx _is_ safe for work -- it's an informational page tied to http://icmregistry.com http://icmregistry.com. It seems like competition for porn-related domain names will be condensed into a very small space within the .xxx TLD. I'm curious to see whether the general public accepts TLDs as semantically relevant, or whether it remains about as important to the average Internet user as the protocol component of a URL.

gamble 16y ago

Already blocked in India: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-india_n_841839.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-...