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Old 02-16-2011, 06:14 AM  
kane
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The ultimate goal of .xxx is to get it approved and the get the governments of the world (primarily the US) to force anyone with a porn site to use a .xxx tld. This will force people to come to them for the domains and they would make a killing

There is no guarantee that .xxx will get approved and if it does I can't see any way a law could be passed that would survive court challenges and make .xxx mandatory. It wasn't too long ago that the supreme court ruled that forcing sites to have age verification was illegal because existing filtering software did the same job and did it less evasively. Filtering has only gotten better so I can't imagine the supreme court would suddenly think it is okay to create an online ghetto and force all domains to the .xxx.

This doesn't even begin to mention the cluster fuck forcing all sites to a .xxx would cause. would it be the .com owner, the .net or someone else who gets the .xxx version of the name? I would imagine there would be plenty of court cases. It would be a mess.

My prediction is that .xxx will eventually one day be approved and it will just be another novelty extension like .info or .mobi

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