jayeff

Why not read what I actually wrote, instead of telling me what you believe I meant? I have a reasonably good command of the english language and if I had wanted to say something else, I should have.

I wrote "All that matters right now is that for the industry at large, .XXX represents an additional expense which offers absolutely no benefit". I expressed myself as I did because there is no immediate risk of this industry being ghettoized and the introduction of .XXX now will have little if any impact on whatever future risk there may be. The tool for enabling censorship is the least of the problems any (US) government wanting to impose such censorship would face. If such laws were passed and no tool were to hand for enforcing them, one would be created.

However, if .XXX is passed, the common perception will be that the days of .COM for porn are numbered and that will dramatically reduce the selling price of any online porn business which does not own the matching .XXX domains. It is also reasonable that if online porn is ever pushed into a ghetto and .XXX exists, that TLD might be our future home. For both those reasons it would be damn silly not to take up the .XXX versions of one's existing domains.

So we begin paying an extra $75 per year per domain and keep paying it for no other reason than we must. Until and if either of the issues I just mentioned come into play (and they would not exist in the first place without .XXX), we get absolutely nothing in return. To me this is an internet tax by another name, made still less palatable because it is being imposed by greedy individuals and not by government.