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XXX TLD Officially Open
- WestCoastJustin 15y agoFeel like I'm going to get in trouble checking this out at work ;) All anyone has to do now it filter by .xxx
- waitwhat 15y agoThat, IMO, is the reason for .xxx -- to make life easier for those who want to censor the internet.
- sp332 15y agoI get the impression that the people who are blocking porn would not be customers of porn sites. In other words, only people who don't want to see .xxx sites would block them. So why is that any different from the AdBlock that I run in my browser already?
- waitwhat 15y agoAdBlock is a personal decision and only affects what you see. .xxx-blocking is likely to take the form of censorship and will make it easier for the censors to affect what other people see.
- missing_cipher 15y agoFor that to be effective, any and all pornographic content in every other TLD will have to be banned. I don't see that happening...
- burgerbrain 15y agoWhat really needs to happen now is for lots of people to start registering domains for (preferably high profile) non-adult content websites. Water down the domain so it no longer means much, so filtering by it becomes destructive.
- waitwhat 15y agoNice try, ICM Registry! (Domains are $200 p.a.)
- burgerbrain 15y agoThat's not all that bad, all things considered. I probably spend more on breakfast cereal.
- Adaptive 15y agoI actually find this structured approach to be quite interesting, despite the cynical, money-minting glee with which it will no doubt be executed. How far the industry has come since the days of faxing in my passport to register a .com. Allow me to translate, for those that were lulled into a hypnotic trance by the Patrick Stewart sound alike: Sunrise A: Additional adult domain cost! Your existing domain strategy just got more expensive to maintain unless you want your SEO to get nuked. Sunrise B: Brand Blackmail, early period. Otherwise known as "That's a nice non-adult themed brand you have, it would terrible to see something happen to it." Landrush: Laughing all the way to the bank. 18 days? Try 18 hours. General Availability: Gone, all the good names are.
- MartinCron 15y agoSunrise B: Brand Blackmail, early period For what it's worth, it looks like the Sunrise B is for blocking/making it impossible to register .xxx domains with your registered trademark such as MarthaStewart.xxx instead of having to pay to register (and presumably not use) MarthaStewart.xxx If any other TLDs work this way, I don't know of them.
- robtoo 15y agoThe fee for Sunrise B appears to be almost the same as the annual fee for actually registering. I assume you won't have to renew, though.
- 16s 15y agoIt is a one-time fee. About 200 dollars. godaddy has the lowest price that I've seen (199.00). I think it's a smart idea (if you own a registered trademark) as 200 dollars is a lot cheaper than getting attorneys to go after trademark violators... even if it's a guaranteed win. Registered trademarks carry a lot of legal protection and someone would have to be nuts to try and build a porn website using a registered trademark that they did not own. No legit company would do that as their lawyers should catch it and realize the potential financial doom.
- lowglow 15y agoI feel desensitized by the countless number of TLDs that have come out recently. I guess I should be excited by .XXX, but I just am not.
- Adaptive 15y agoI'm with you, and they know this too. That's why they produced such a happy-sounding threat letter video.
- kijeda 15y agoNot quite countless. There are 307 TLDs today, up from about 250 a decade ago. Most of this growth as been in non-Latin IDN domains (There are 21 gTLDs today, including .XXX) There will however be a sea change in the future, ICANN is intending the open up applications for new gTLDs in 2012 that could see hundreds more TLDs added. So if adding the dozen or so new gTLDs in the last 10 years has seemed countless, it will get worse.
- meric 15y agoIs it so bad? It'll get easier to find the name you want as a domain.... http://<mydomain>.<tld> http://<mydomain>.<tld> If anything, so many tlds would devalue the existing .coms, .net, .org... if only slightly.
- bobds 15y agoI think more and more people will rely on Google for navigational queries. "Hey you should really check out this awesomestuff.sfdj website" "I'll look at it when I get home." ... later in the day: "Hmmm was it awesomestuff.com or awesomestuff.me ..." "Let's ask Google for a link to awesomestuff"
- qxb 15y agoI agree. I think a lot of people do this already, and not just for sites where they can't remember the exact URL. It's often just as quick to type 'bbc' or 'facebook' into the Google search bar, especially if Google is your homepage. You don't have to worry about typos, either. Some computer users I know, older users, access everything that way. When I asked one why, she replied that she found the browser address bar "fiddly". Earlier this year Bing stated that "about 30%" of search queries are navigational.[1] [1] http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/02/10/making-search-yours.aspx http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20... (paragraph before penultimate screenshot)
- jmtame 15y agoThere's something difficult about saying "hey go to mypornsite dot x-x-x", it's 3 syllables over the conventional "dot com", "dot net" or "dot org."
- wgx 15y ago"Go to mysite dot tripl'x" ?
- cryptoz 15y agowww has three times as many syllables as 'world wide web', yet somehow it caught on.
- xtacy 15y agoJust curious; how often have you heard dub-dub-dub for www?
- markng 15y agoI use that all the time, but the only other person I've heard say it is the person I picked the habit up from.
- michael_dorfman 15y agoBack in the day, we used to say "triple-dub" for www-- but that never caught on with the mainstream users, and died out around 1995 or 6, I suppose.
- FreeFull 15y agoIn Polish, it's pronounced wuwuwu
- dpcan 15y agoWell, I think tripple X is probably the way most people will "say" it, if it's ever actually "said" - if you know what I mean. When's the last time someone told you to go to a porn site in plain English, out loud, anywhere?
- waitwhat 15y agoAh yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
- veyron 15y agohow about whitehouse.com? Quite a few kids stumbled into the world of porn through that domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com
- waitwhat 15y agoWhat about it indeed? .xxx doesn't solve that problem unless you forbid porn on every other domain. In other words: .xxx really is a solution only for wannabe-censors.
- veyron 15y ago" .xxx doesn't solve that problem unless you forbid porn on every other domain" That is a perfectly plausible solution now that the .xxx TLD exists.
- waitwhat 15y agoOr in other words: Ah yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
- pak 15y agoAre you joking? 1. Define "porn" 2. Get every other TLD operator, including all the international ones, on board with your definition and rules (e.g. are we only banning websites on port 80, or would FTP sites also be verboten? password-protected sites? is classical art exempt?) 3. Enforce the censorship via some kind of magical system that is automated, doesn't trigger false positives, and allows for an appeal process Yeah, that'll be a snap to put together.
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- andrewvc 15y agoRegardless of your opinion of adult content, this stuff makes far less practical sense than things like RTA labeling http://www.rtalabel.org/ http://www.rtalabel.org/. All that RTA requires is a simple meta tag, and it's free. Content filters abide by it, and it doesn't disrupt existing business. .xxx is just an effort to make money with another new TLD. It doesn't make the web safer and it doesn't make content-filters simpler or more accurate. Since no one is proposing forcing sites to use .xxx, those concerned with truly making the web safer should really be looking for the most effective way to get wide penetration of a labeling solution, and a meta tag is about as simple as simple gets.
- joe_the_user 15y agoSince no one is proposing forcing sites to use .xxx, No one has to propose it openly since the threat is implicit. Regardless of what is said at the moment of creation of the domain, all that a would-be censor has to do is wait [Internet-memory-erasure-period] and say "hey, we created XXX because all the porn is supposed to only be here" and viola.
- prawn 15y agoJust quietly: voilà. A viola is an instrument.
- brianobush 15y agomost people don't know how to quickly type: à
- p4bl0 15y agoSo, who's gonna get lambdax.xxx ;-) ?
- MartinCron 15y agoI'm a big fan of the Ratchet and Clank games, so I first thought of Lomba.xxx
- jarin 15y agoI can think of a ton of great domains, but at $250 or so a pop (including taxes) that's probably not going to happen. Nobody I know in the adult industry is rushing to register anything either (except a few who are doing it purely as a defensive measure and don't plan to actually use it).
- meric 15y agoYou're the first person I know that knows someone in the adult industry... :)
- jarin 15y agoI still (sort of) work in the adult industry :) I worked at a big porn company a few years ago, and I do consulting for a porn startup now. I have other clients too, but it's a pretty fun industry to work in (fun parties, lots of great scaling challenges, etc).
- p4bl0 15y ago> [registering .xxx] as a defensive measure and don't plan to actually use it. This sounds like an even bigger necessity for companies not in the adult industry.
- Sephr 15y agoIt's only a matter of time before someone pays the ICM Registry for on A record on XXX. so they can have http://xxx/ http://xxx/
- 0x12 15y agoThe temptation to put a useful, non-porn site on a subdomain of .xxx is quite large. Just to make the point that .xxx is useless and for the large number of clicks that it will no doubt bring. Elementary programming course on 'thesecretcode.xxx'. Legions of porn seeking people converted to programmers, if slashdot is any indication that should be a perfect match.
- T_S_ 15y agoHard to see what all the excitement is about while xxx.ly is still available.
- jackpirate 15y agoThe consensus seems that the .XXX TLD is just a money grab because it's not forcing adult content onto this TLD, and there is no practical way to even do that. Therefore, wouldn't a counterpart TLD, such as .SAFE, actually make more sense? Companies that target children, such as Walt Disney, could provide a guaranteed safe sub-internet. With wikipedia's new filtering options, they could put a wiki-subset on .SAFE with maximum filtering on. It would be hugely costly to police, and so probably the most expensive TLD ever. But some companies would surely still be able to profit.
- mmatants 15y agoAgree re: cash grab. The counterpart "safe" TLD is part of a much bigger content curation problem that is evolving in the Internet. Some parents out there are not at all OK with Disney content, even, some will want to leave boobs in but head-crushing out, etc, etc. Properly tailoring to people's many shades of content filtering seems like a job for dedicated browser-recognized crypto certificate chains. This way, different consumers can directly delegate trust to a custom choice of entities that already are engaged in this space (e.g. all the "family focus" agencies), instead of fighting over a centralized TLD committee.
- MarkPilgrim 15y ago> seems like a job for dedicated browser-recognized crypto certificate chains You don't read the news much, do you? ;)
- joezydeco 15y agoCan I get xxx.xxx and then subdomain it out to my heart's content to anyone that wants to pay? Martha Stewart can pay under Sunrise B to stop marthastewart.xxx, but can she stop marthastewart.xxx.xxx?
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- sampsonjs 15y agoSince the MPAA got rid of the X rating, I'm glad we have this. Now the phrase "Triple X" won't become obsolete.
- celalo 15y agohow do they make these intro videos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDKnDSaWqE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDKnDSaWqE Does this technique have a name? Are there any special tools for that?
- morrow 15y agoI believe the name for that is kinetic type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_typography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_typography I'm not aware of any specialized tools, I've heard of using illustrator and after effects, however.
- celalo 15y agothank you, that was very helpful.
- TomGullen 15y agoI want to register "fffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxxxxxxx.xxx" and it can be a place people can send faxes online from
- guelo 15y agoICANN is a corrupt undemocratic non-representative self-important parasite on the internet who's main concern is increasing their budget so they can schedule more of their all expense paid meetings in Puerto Rico or Costa Rica. That is all.