Originally Posted by Connor

Nobody said the industry is over... but I'm not sure why a bad proposal can't be called a bad proposal. The potential for serious harm to your business is not worth the potential benefit, if in fact there is any potential benefit. Period.

2257... you're right, apples and oranges. But keep in mind, that's still being fought out in court and there's no telling where that one will land.

Here is the key to all this, stright from your own keyboard:

"I can agree with you and everyone else that overall .xxx has many negative possibilities with little to no benefits for our industry."

That's the point exactly. But you can't ask for "proof" of what is likely to happen in the future... until it happens, there can be no proof. You're asking for the impossible here. But that doesn't mean you ignore the very likely possibilities when they directly affect your business. Sometimes it's better to head something off BEFORE it becomes a problem rather than thinking happy thoughts and hoping for the best. Until today, we were all told that this .XXX thing was a "done deal," and that Commerce couldn't intervene, etc, etc. The playing field looks a little different now.

If you want to protect the kids, use voluntary labels... they're free, and you can always remove them if they become a problem. You may not like hypotheticals, but how will you feel if Visa suddenly decides that all adult sites have to be on .XXX domain names to continue to accept Visa? Many industry attorneys have said this is a real possibility. Supporters of .XXX have talked about using Visa as a "carrot" to get sites over to dot-xxx domains. Is that okay with you? And how are you going to feel when any generic word .com domain names you have belong to someone else in the dot-xxx world, and Visa issues a new regulation forcing you to move or lose Visa processing? This is just one simple POSSIBLE scenario that any smart adult business person would have to consider when deciding whether or not to oppose dot-xxx. Is that POSSIBILITY worth any possible benefits of dot-xxx?