Pornography Gets Its Own Top-Level Domain

[sagansrun]

So, who decides what is porn and whats not? I see a lot of sites such as medical, etc... getting a porn .xxx.

 

[pinkfloydminnesota]

[citation][nom]sagansrun[/nom]So, who decides what is porn and whats not? I see a lot of sites such as medical, etc... getting a porn .xxx.[/citation]
The site owner decides. If someone owns a medical site and they ask for an .xxx domain, they can have it, but there is no requirement or standard to get any domain.

 

[hellwig]

Just read another article and they had a good point. This .xxx domain isn't just to scam porn companies out of money, its to scam ALL companies out of money. You think Disney is going to let someone register disney-dot-xxx? No freakin way. Any company not wanting a porn site squatting their trademarked name in the .xxx domain will be forced to purchase the domain (you can't sue someone for using TomsGuide-dot-xxx if you don't plan to use it yourself). This whole thing is a scam. Of course, ICANN is a scam too, so I shouldn't have expected anything less.

 

[cj_online]

Is it now illegal to use any other domain name besides .xxx for porn ?

 

[lancelot123]

[citation][nom]flamethrower205[/nom]More importantly, who's the girl in the picture?[/citation]
Looks like Shay Laren.

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]cj_online[/nom]Is it now illegal to use any other domain name besides .xxx for porn ?[/citation]

It's legal to use a country level domain for a site has nothing to do with the country, run by someone not in that country and on servers not located in that country.

It's legal to use a .org address for commercial purposes which is what .com is supposed to be for.

 

[kingssman]

its perhaps a good thing because whenever some kid at a computer class goes to whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov, he'll get a totally different response as the web security alarms goes off for the poor grade schooler accessing pornography. Magicschoolbus.com is susceptible of being a porn site.

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]kingssman[/nom]some kid at a computer class goes to whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov[/citation]

I was already thinking about that site with this news. It is doubtful they will abandon their .com presence as they have a lot of benefit from the accidental exposure. Just like the above mentioned hotmale.com site.

Even with sites like this and my Google filtering being "do not filter" adult sites I still never _accidentally_ end up at one of these sites.

 

[bin1127]

But a lot of porn are posted on blog sites. Crap I mean I suspect they do.

 

[drwho1]

this could be a win - win situation, even easier to find (not like is hard to find at all) but also easier to block, specially for concern parents, and places like libraries that do not have proper blocking methods.

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]But a lot of porn are posted on blog sites. Crap I mean I suspect they do.[/citation]

This new top level domain won't "fix" that "problem" for you. Sorry.

 

[N19h7M4r3]

I agree with the change... as said: easyer to find if needed, and easyer to block when needed, cant see a reason why not to approve this...

 

[eddieroolz]

So they went through with this eh. I just hope nations that are leaning towards a rogue state (i.e. Australia) does not decide to ban pornography altogether through filtering.

 

[dannyaa]

Ideally, it would be illegal to house pornographic content OUTSIDE of a .xxx domain. If it's porno, it would have to on a site ending in .xxx or be illegal and force removed.

Parental controls, company controls, etc. could then finally be effective to properly filtering this out and monitoring it.

 

[segio526]

[citation][nom]dannyaa[/nom]Ideally, it would be illegal to house pornographic content OUTSIDE of a .xxx domain. If it's porno, it would have to on a site ending in .xxx or be illegal and force removed.Parental controls, company controls, etc. could then finally be effective to properly filtering this out and monitoring it.[/citation]
Although I stated it before, I feel that this is the opposite aproach if you're trying to make filtering easier. What should be done is create a clean TDL that has strict regulations. Then, all you have to do is block everything except the .clean TDL. So there would be tomsguide.com and tomsguide.clean. In order to maintain .clean, they would need to keep out any questionable content and add a button to each page that would report the page in question to the admin and the regulatory group in charge if someone feels the page is inapropriate.

This method makes it just as difficult on the people who run the sites, but much easier on people who want to deprive...block content.

 

[ravewulf]

Then again, it may also be easier to block said content by merely adding the new domain to Internet filters.

My worry exactly. Especially with net neutrality being on unstable ground already thanks to Comcast's desire to restrict their customers.

 

[beayn]

Time to buy up playboy.xxx (and others) and sell it back to them!

 

[segio526]

[citation][nom]beayn[/nom]Time to buy up playboy.xxx (and others) and sell it back to them![/citation]
And McDonalds.xxx and Hasbro.xxx and BankOfAmerica.xxx and Yale.xxx and Florida.xxx and, my favorite, ICANN.xxx!

 

[Guest]

You know there are going to be lawsuits for all the people that squat on .xxx domains. Microsoft.xxx, Apple.xxx, Walmart.xxx, xxx.xxx, etc.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Sweet, easy way to block them all in the future.