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?