Internet bosses set to approve .xxx for porn sites

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(Reuters) - The company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead on Friday for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated on Thursday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net.

It has in recent years repeatedly rejected a request by U.S. company ICM Registry Inc. to sign off on the .xxx domain.

But members of ICANN's board have argued that in order to maintain neutrality in dealing with domain name assignations, it should create .xxx and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis.

"If expedited due diligence results are successful, then staff will proceed into contract negotiations with ICM (over .xxx)," ICANN's general counsel John Jeffrey told delegates at a week-long ICANN meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

Online pornography is a vast industry. Figures collated by Internet Pornography Statistics suggest more than $3,000 is spent on Internet pornography every second, with "sex" the number one search term in the world, accounting for 25 percent of all Internet searches.

With an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on the Internet, .xxx could become one of the largest domain name repositories, as big if not bigger than .com.

But some members of the adult entertainment industry oppose .xxx, saying it will invite censorship and harm their business. Members of the American religious right also oppose its creation on moral grounds.

ICANN is expected to make a formal announcement on its decision on Friday.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N4UP20100624

jphip.xxx?

[shurastriker]

jphip.xxx?

i would like that

[daigong]

jphip.xxx?

i would like that

I have been waiting for this day since we first opened up shop over five years ago

*sniff, porn so beautiful.

[kuro808]

this should be fun recommend a porn site to people

[Tuffty]

My argument against the .xxx domain is that surely the creation of it only makes it easier for those underage to find porn than they do at present.

jphip.xxx I think it would be weird to have that domain seeing as porn is only a small section of JPH!P, discussion on H!P, AKB48 and Girls Generation for example, are much heavier in activity and probably rightly so.

[Asmodai]

My argument against the .xxx domain is that surely the creation of it only makes it easier for those underage to find porn than they do at present.

jphip.xxx I think it would be weird to have that domain seeing as porn is only a small section of JPH!P, discussion on H!P, AKB48 and Girls Generation for example, are much heavier in activity and probably rightly so.

I don't think it's going to be significantly harder for anyone motivated. The big plus for me would be that it would reduce the number of accidental visits to porn sites by a fair amount if the industry shifted to mostly using this suffix.

[shurastriker]

My argument against the .xxx domain is that surely the creation of it only makes it easier for those underage to find porn than they do at present.

find porn? just type it on google, that's all you need

[daigong]

Yeah, the .xxx is just a vanity domain like .asia

Like who uses those URLs lol