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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 me

by 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.
  - gloob 16y ago
    So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen. What do you mean by "if the market wanted it"? Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing. (Rant: The personification of "the market" to the point where it is capable of "wanting" things on its own initiative is a pet peeve of mine. It's not a person. It doesn't have desires. Market economics is a descriptive theory, not a theological statement.)
    - qeorge 16y ago
      Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing. Exactly. If .xxx became the de facto "porn tld", to the point that porn buyers look for .xxx sites first, then yes - the porn operators would move to .xxx. Not saying its likely, going to happen, any of that. Just responding to your point that .xxx wouldn't work because porn companies don't want it. Re: your rant - was this necessary? Obviously you knew what I meant.
davidu 16y ago
".xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids)." Seeing as how I run a service that happens to also be the largest parental content filtering service in the world (amongst other things), I can tell you that's simply not going to be an effective technique for parents. It'd be nice if it was, but it isn't.
- qeorge 16y ago
  What does work in regards to parental content filtering? I can't think of anything that a reasonably computer-savvy kid couldn't get around. Re: .xxx, I didn't mean it was perfect, or even an effective solution, just that it had some value and meaning compared to .co, which has none (IMO).
  - davidu 16y ago
    parental controls are not designed to thwart your nerdy 14 year old.

by qeorge 16y ago

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.
- gloob 16y ago
  So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen. What do you mean by "if the market wanted it"? Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing. (Rant: The personification of "the market" to the point where it is capable of "wanting" things on its own initiative is a pet peeve of mine. It's not a person. It doesn't have desires. Market economics is a descriptive theory, not a theological statement.)
  - qeorge 16y ago
    Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing. Exactly. If .xxx became the de facto "porn tld", to the point that porn buyers look for .xxx sites first, then yes - the porn operators would move to .xxx. Not saying its likely, going to happen, any of that. Just responding to your point that .xxx wouldn't work because porn companies don't want it. Re: your rant - was this necessary? Obviously you knew what I meant.

davidu 16y ago

".xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids)." Seeing as how I run a service that happens to also be the largest parental content filtering service in the world (amongst other things), I can tell you that's simply not going to be an effective technique for parents. It'd be nice if it was, but it isn't.

qeorge 16y ago
What does work in regards to parental content filtering? I can't think of anything that a reasonably computer-savvy kid couldn't get around. Re: .xxx, I didn't mean it was perfect, or even an effective solution, just that it had some value and meaning compared to .co, which has none (IMO).
- davidu 16y ago
  parental controls are not designed to thwart your nerdy 14 year old.