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subject: Reasons why .XXX TLD is a good idea
With all the overwhelming posts rejecting the .XXX domain, I thought it
might be good to have some voice of reason, some clarity as to why .XXX is a
good idea.
The .XXX TLD will open up the domain namespace.
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Right now, websites have to be clever in creating new porn domains,
concatenating words together, making them longer until they can find one
that isn't taken. These longer names are harder to remember and longer to
type.
A urine fetish website can now get yellow.XXX that previously before .XXX,
only a yellow pages website had the name.
More and more porn sites can now open up, going for the names that were
long-lost in the .COM namespace.
There could be Muslim.XXX for Muslim specific sex preferences.
Christian.XXX could be a porn site for the type that go to strip clubs on
Saturday night, and church on Sunday morning.
A .XXX extension will be an easy to spot warning for kids to stay away
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When kids see the .XXX extension in a search result, their proper upbringing
and parental guidance will be fully tested as the child will know not to
even click on the link, for fear that mom would be watching and they would
get less Christmas presents because Santa knew they were being naughty at
looking at naughty websites. Those big warning messages about adult content
and being over 18 to enter are just not clear enough for kids. Kids
identify with characters like in cartoons, not lengthy legalese statements.
.XXX would be like a cartoon character that tells them to be good boys and
girls and to stay away because only big boys and girls should be looking in
there.
.XXX will stop the porn .COM websites
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Filtering software will be able to lookup the IP of the .XXX website and
block by the IP. Since porn websites usually host many domains on the same
IP, including their .COM equivalent, filtering software will be able to
block them all.
Some webmaster who decides that it is cool to get a .XXX domain and puts it
on a virtual webhost like at GoDaddy (with thousands of non-adult websites
hosted on the same IP) where he doesn't even have any porn pics, would all
get blocked because his .XXX domain shared the same IP as others. Who cares
if those other sites get blocked.. they shouldn't have been hosting on the
same server as that deviant.
Hopefully, the porners aren't that smart to catch on to this and won't put
their .COM website on one IP and the .XXX website on another.
The purchase of .XXX domains will help fund child protection organizations
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Some child protection organizations will be given grants/funding from the
proceeds of .XXX domains to help with their laudable mission of protecting
children. Maybe playgrounds and playscapes that are purchased with this
.XXX money could have a sign put up that says 'Your porn dollars at work",
or "This play area paid for by porn".
.XXX will protect children
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Everyone knows that the minute .XXX gets approved that every porn site in
the world will switch to .XXX because it's the "responsible" thing to
protect children. It is with this 100% shifting to .XXX, that filtering
programs can easily identify a porn site since it would have the .XXX
extension.
No longer will websites that operate just on an IP number, or using other
extensions or operating in countries that don't subscribe to US policies,
cause problems. For once, there will be universal unity and agreement.
Just by saying that .XXX will protect children makes it so.
Better to tax the money making pornographers to pay for the .XXX domains
than have non-porn websites pay to have a .KIDS TLD
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Since porn websites are making so much money, they should be the one to pay
for the protection measures that .XXX afford.
.KIDS would certainly be much more effective in its whitelisting approach,
that only approved kid-friendly sites would get a .KIDS extension.
But why tax the websites who already paid for their .COM domain names for
the sins of the pornographers? The Robin Hood strategy of financing child
protection is exactly what Senator Lincoln and other similar porn tax bills
have proposed.
.XXX will stop Child Porn websites because they wouldn't be allowed to get a
.XXX domain
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No one wants the Child Porn websites around, so those pedos will be excluded
from .XXX and usually from .COM as well, since they use those free web
hosting places to put their websites up one day and down another anyways.
And we all know that its impossible to get a .COM name with the word Lolita
or Beastility in it.. since that would just be too obvious what might be on
that website, such that .COM registrars already offer us that level of
protection. A .XXX registrar would allow us to all sleep at night, knowing
they would be doing their jobs of making sure that the really bad stuff didn't
get a domain name.
.XXX will legitimize porn
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With laws being proposed by Congress on the mandatory use of .XXX for porn
sites, it will finally more "legitimize" porn, especially since porn is
already "legit", but it's always good to have government approval. So the
government will acknowledge the .XXX identifier and all those who don't like
smut, won't be shocked the next time they visit an innocently looking .COM
website and find porn.
Conclusion
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There are many reasons why .XXX is a good thing. There's something here for everyone. So ignore all those adult webmasters who are against .XXX
Ignore the fact that one of the ICANN requirements for a TLD is that it must
represent the wishes of the community, to have built up constituency over
the group that the TLD presides over.
There are many people outside of the porn industry who think .XXX is a good
idea, so it makes perfect sense to use ICANN to corral them all into a
virtual red light district and use the TLD as a way of controlling the
content. Better to force one's personal moral and ethical standards onto
another group of people, and the kicker, make them pay for that containment,
and use the proceeds from the .XXX domain transactions to do good.
For those that couldn't read into the satire of the actual commentary
presented, the quick summary:
.XXX SHOULD NOT BE APPROVED.