Sex.com Up For Auction, Could Fetch $28,000,000

[balister]

For those that say sex.com would be worthless, how soon we forget about Whitehouse.com and how many people go there by "accident" when trying to go to Whitehouse.gov.

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]mavanhel[/nom]I might be wrong, but isn't the .xxx designation voluntary? I didn't think they were going to force sites to change their url.[/citation]
That's "not their intent", but as peoples reactions have shown, the people will soon demand it. This was why they didn't want .xxx in the firstplace. Without .xxx, you couldn't force porn anywhere. Now, people will cry out to move all porn to .xxx to protect their children. It's a multi-phase attack, first you setup a voluntary place. Then you force people to voluntarily move there. Then you have a convenient place to carpet bomb when you need to get rid of all of them.

Sure, it's just porn now, but as I said before, wait until they create .islam, .communism, .freespeech, etc.... When you give up one right, you give up all rights. This is setting a dangerous precident.

 

[gm0n3y]

I don't think that any site will ever be forced onto a specific TLD for at least 2 reasons:

1) The Internet is not US only.
2) Enforcement would be insanely expensive and impossible. Currently there is no enforcement of any kind, nor even a body that could potentially do this. I seriously doubt there ever will be one.

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I don't think that any site will ever be forced onto a specific TLD for at least 2 reasons:1) The Internet is not US only.2) Enforcement would be insanely expensive and impossible. Currently there is no enforcement of any kind, nor even a body that could potentially do this. I seriously doubt there ever will be one.[/citation]

1) The US could implement a law saying that any pornography sites viewable in the US must be on the .XXX domain. And then if you're wondering how they'd enforce that, think Great Firewall of China.

2) If you think the cost is prohibitive, again, see the Great Firewall of China. Obviously, with enough intent, anything is achievable.

 

[aodknifer]

Just get the domain se.xxx no need for the x anymore XD