Businesses Complain of .xxx "Blackmail"

[halls]

@wiyosaya
Absolutely. I hate it when people say they need to keep their kids "safe" from sex, when it's a biological reality they're going to have to face someday. They need explanations from parents and not embarassed silence.

 

[hoofhearted]

I think K-Zon is one of these bots that take the words from the article and contain volumes of sentences and do keyword matches and generate responses.

 

[hoofhearted]

And boohoohoo, I don't really pity the whole concept of brand protection. Apple is a good example of where this has been take way too far. First come first serve, I say. If a multi million or billion dollar corporation can't hire their own team to snap up these names, then they missed the boat.

 

[stingstang]

K-zone, you make me twitch, man.

 

[cookoy]

wonder what they'll feature in tomsguide.xxx or tomshardware.xxx

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]DawnTreader[/nom]So that those of us with kids can easily block the porn. IMHO all porn should be forced to move to the .xxx domain. this would make the porn blocking easy and keep kids safe.[/citation]
Oh brother, you're the kind of person I've been complaining about for the years that they were proposing the .xxx domain in the first place. Sure, we create a .xxx domain where websites, should they choose, can create a domain. Then no-good "think of the children" blowhards like yourself come along and say "hey, we now have .xxx, why not FORCE people to use them!". Separate but equal, is that what you're thinking?

And before you criticize me for comparing the civil rights movement to porn, I'm not comparing it to porn, I comparing it to the modern day freedoms we are being stripped of. If we create a culture of banning anything we see as an affront to our senses, how long before we create a .muslim, .christianity, .freespeech, .gay (oh yeah, right, we already banned that because we thought it might attract the gays), etc...? Sure, it's easy to stand behind totalitarian changes like forcing all porn to the .xxx domain when it works FOR you, try distancing yourself from such things when they work against you.

But of course, no one thinks that way anymore, it's all ME ME ME. People would sell their neighbor for $5, they'll think nothing of supporting something that costs them nothing today.

 

[pclee]

I bet politicians are among those protecting their names. I knew a guy who made a small fortune squatting on the names of politicians before elections...maybe I should stop typing and start buying.

 

[zak_mckraken]

I don't see what the fuss is about. What's the difference with disney.xxx and disneyxxx.com? There's so many ways to "associate" a brand name with porn without that .xxx domain. At least, they're being direct about it. And how can someone possibly enter disney.xxx by "mistake"? If I look out for a website, I'll probably search it in Google. .xxx domains won't show. And I do take the guess of typing the site's name, I won't end it with .xxx. Non-issue.

 

[Darkerson]

[citation][nom]syrious1[/nom]I want some of what K-zon is smoking![/citation]

You and me both, buddy, you and me both...

 

[festerovic]

^ at least I know sfaiuei is real spam...

the world is depressing now.

 

[pinkeyes]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]"Ohhhhhh the poor multi-million(or billion) dollar corporations who have to shell out a few thou to secure a couple domain names, oh the humanity!!"..."Still, many big companies own **tens of thousands** of web domain names – imagine shelling out a fee for each. "10000 domain names x $200-300 each = $2M... Plus the man-hours on their side involved with setting it all up with ICM.[/citation]

10,000 domain names? give me a break.

 

[eiskrystal]

$200 dollars for a .xxx site? Yeah, someone is making a lot of money and you can bet they originally "helped" push this through the government.

This was originally supposed to separate porn to make it easier to block to "protect" children from seeing any basic biology. This was always going to fail as a strategy to separate porn simply because of rule 34. So the reasons for this entire farce are patently obviously money and corruption.

Personally, i would sue the .xxx people for profiting from helping damage/defame my brand if i was one of the big boys.

 

[jdwii]

ust imagine the damage that could be done when kids go looking for the popular talking sponge and pull up a different sponge of another sort linked a spongebob.xxx website.

that would be funny, No it would only be funny to see the kids reaction.

 

[someoneelse]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]wonder what they'll feature in tomsguide.xxx or tomshardware.xxx[/citation]

rule 34 IDK WTF but rule 34