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Originally Posted by DWB
As much as I'd like to pat everyone on the back for that, delaying it accomplished nothing other than giving a lot of us false hope.
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It did a lot more than give people false hope.
The main problem with the creation of a .xxx tld has nothing to do with protecting trademarks etc as some want us the believe (including the ICM registry!). The main threat is censorship. In the past politicians have already introduced legislation to make the use of a .xxx domain mandatory for adult web sites. One of the reasons such legislation was never passed, is that a .xxx tld simply did not exist.
If the ICM Registry would ever decide to start lobbying to make the use of a .xxx domain mandatory (we all know they have a financial incentive to do so), the chances of them succeeding are today a lot smaller than 5 years ago.
The upcoming surge of new tlds (soon anyone with
a couple of dollars will be able to start a new tld, no need for so called 'community support') such as .sex, .gay, .porn etc will make it harder if not impossible for the ICM Registry to claim that the .xxx tld is the only place where responsible adult web sites belong.