Story at CNN.com
It’s a big day for the porn industry.
On Friday, ICANN, the not-for-profit corporation that coordinates the internet’s naming system, voted to allow the application of the controversial “.xxx” top-level domain name for sites that display adult content.
The domain, which would need further approval before going live on the internet, would be applied to adult entertainment sites just as “.com” is now.
The .xxx internet suffix, which was first proposed six years ago by ICM Registry, a group that sells domain names, “will provide a place online for adult entertainment providers and their service providers who want to be part of our voluntary self regulatory community,” according to that company’s news release.
Good for libraries…
if all porn sites move to a .xxx domain, it should make blocking access to those sites (for those libraries who are inclined to do so) about a million times easier.
Squatting on domain names?
I wonder if people who own the .com domains will be able to transfer that domain over to the .xxx domain or if people will try to gobble up the .xxx names and cash in. That is right. Gobble.