.xxx Approved by ICANN

[MindyBlingBucks]

A much talked about topic in recently and many webmasters are wondering if and when .xxx willl be available... Bob Parson, president and founder of GoDaddy.com and speaker of the Domain Roundtable has confirmed it's acceptance in his blog.

.XXX has been approved.

A few days ago, ICANN -- the quasi-government corporation that oversees the internet’s naming and numbering system, approved the .XXX top level domain. .XXX will operate much like .COM does now -- meaning it will be a domain name people can type into their browsers to take them to a website -- but similar to the way .GOV is reserved for governmental organizations, .XXX will be reserved for pornographic or adult content websites.

Current expectations are that .XXX will be available for purchase and use by year’s end.

Read On... (http://www.bobparsons.com/)

What are your thoughts on it?

[Paco]

I, for one, am all for it (and it is about freakin time)!

Simply putting things where they belong, or do people want to see hardcore porn mags being sold at the bus stop right next to newspapers?

... and again (my fav), do you want hookers jumping out at you while your browsing the isles of Wally-Mart?

[MindyBlingBucks]

I, for one, am all for it (and it is about freakin time)!

Simply putting things where they belong, or do people want to see hardcore porn mags being sold at the bus stop right next to newspapers?

... and again (my fav), do you want hookers jumping out at you while your browsing the isles of Wally-Mart?

That's one way to look at it. . .but there are many problems with the advent of the .xxx

Say, for instance, that you have 123porn.com as a domain. A law is passed that all adult websites must change the extension to .xxx, but there is no guarantee that already secured and well established .com adult domains will receive the same domain .xxx. So before you know it, some goober has grabbed 123porn.xxx, and you're out of luck. . . .and business.

Also, there is the fact that people will now know exactly where to go to find adult material. Just type "whatever-your-pleasure".xxx, and you're in business. But that means that kids will know exactly where to look too. . .

Not saying that kids don't already know how to look for porn. . . but it's just a thought.

:)

[Paco]

1). Say, for instance, that you have 123porn.com as a domain. A law is passed that all adult websites must change the extension to .xxx, but there is no guarantee that already secured and well established .com adult domains will receive the same domain .xxx. So before you know it, some goober has grabbed 123porn.xxx, and you're out of luck. . . .and business.

2). Also, there is the fact that people will now know exactly where to go to find adult material. Just type "whatever-your-pleasure".xxx, and you're in business. But that means that kids will know exactly where to look too. . .
Not saying that kids don't already know how to look for porn. . . but it's just a thought.

I've thought it out for five+ years (as well I have debated this issue with peeps of all walks of life), which is why I support it:

1). Merely a detail of a good plan - the governing bodies should have taken that into consideration and should have thought that through (of course chances are they have not).
(Prior to any domain sale, verify whether or not a .com version is actively occupied, if yes, allow them the opportunity to acquire. I am not saying hold it forever, simply extend a holding or grace period. If the .com version is registered and not populated or 'live' too bad, so sad!)

2). Regarding censorship and/or protecting minors from viewing explicit images by 'accidentally' hitting a .xxx site: this problem is the easiest to fix as ALL '.xxx' can be block - simply block *.xxx
This will spawn a ton of NEW firewall and other security software, which I am positive will all include a .xxx feature

I still believe most web masters do not like this because it will be more controlled and accidental traffic will in essence no longer exist.

[Yahook]

Where does it possible to preregister this domain name?

[Yahook]

http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/xxx.htm

[Paco]

I am replying to a similar post on another board (Sorry Yahook), and I have yet to see a proper debate or an intelligent rebuttal, with the exception Mindy's (see above) -- typical angst retorts, which make webmasters look like idiots.


Mindy, I hope you do not mind, but I have used your text or quoted you (only the text, not your name) in order to show some peeps how things are suppose to be done ... being, a proper debate.
If you wish to view, please visit the place where someone supplied you with two erroneous opinions of you.

[BenBlingBucks]

Mindy... thanks for that link. I see that GoDaddy is excited and gearing to make a sh*tload of money with .XXX too....

Here's my 2 cents on .XXX

PROS

-- .XXX opens small avenues in protecting children... small. Such as parental services for email filters and browser add-ons.

-- .XXX identifies the domain as sexually explicit... if you don't want to see it... don't go to it. No complaints here.

-- .XXX will offer incredible type-in traffic from single word domains... (I forsee trademark legal disputes and expensive domain sales...) Let's see who has the fastest fingers... or the most inside connections.

CONS

-- .XXX allows the very possibility of unfair segregation of the adult industry to their right of free speech. Search engines, ISPs, traffic redirection, etc... which can easily block access. It clearly brands us for future acts against us.

-- .XXX hides behind the "protection of children" campaign... an intelligent conspiracy in disguise. (So does the new U.S.C. 2257 Amendments but we live here... so we need to comply to do business, whether it's fair or not.)

-- .XXX will offer more porn on the web. Not necessarily viewed as a bad thing for many adult webmasters... however doesn't help the campaign for "protection of children" which was what it was meant to do in the first place. Children will eventually look for porn, it's our duties as parents to be responsible on raising them - .XXX will only show them how to get it easier.

-- .XXX will be expensive to grease the palms of greedy individuals who have everything to gain by it. There is NO true interests in protecting children... if there were, I can think of a million other ways of doing this.

-- .XXX cannot be managed to assure that the websites are truly adult in nature.... what if someone registers religion.xxx or christianity.xxx even young.xxx More confusion, more uproar, more traffic whores, more nonsense.

-- .XXX creates the real possibility of forcing new adult site registrations to fall under this TLD... banning new .COM adult sites. Once again... branding us.

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The problem is that although .XXX 'seemingly' makes sense with the 'perception' of helping to protect children from pornographic material will ONLY in fact allow dishonest and unfair lawmakers a strong leverage on controlling what happens to the industry's rights of speech and change the livelyhood of all adult webmasters.

I am generally a positive thinker and I normally look for the productive angle to everything... however I only see more CONS then PROS with this new TLD addition.

Like or not... it looks like it will be available soon and I know webmasters will be scrounging to get the best names possible maybe not realizing that it could possibly be bait to reel them in for the kill.

Only time will tell on how .XXX will affect our industry. The battle to protect our rights and freedom of speech will go on...

I simply know that I prefer not to live in FEAR (False Expectations Appear Real).... it will keep me from being as productive as I can be for today. Hoopla on topics like these can be a whirlwind of fear I wish not fall into.

Instead... I prepare today to live for tomorrow.

It's the weekend... so I will be going out to a party and having a couple of drinks... Who's with me? (http://www.blingbucks.com/news_6.10.2005.php)

[MindyBlingBucks]

I am replying to a similar post on another board (Sorry Yahook), and I have yet to see a proper debate or an intelligent rebuttal, with the exception Mindy's (see above) -- typical angst retorts, which make webmasters look like idiots.


Mindy, I hope you do not mind, but I have used your text or quoted you (only the text, not your name) in order to show some peeps how things are suppose to be done ... being, a proper debate.
If you wish to view, please visit the place where someone supplied you with two erroneous opinions of you.

Thanks Paco. . . I don't mind you quoting me. . .I'm glad to set even an anonymous example on how to bring a serious debate question forward.

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