Go get 'em KB!

Fyi

http://uspto.gov "XXX" Issued Live Trademark Held by http://XPays.com

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?r...entry=78127349

it won't be the government ghettoizing the adult internet with .xxx - it will be the credit card companies, if anybody, who have the ability to say "all adult sites billed by visa are required to use .xxx blah blah blah". Visa and mc make their own rules unlike the gov't who has to deal with pesky issues like free speech.

Post courtesy of:

http://XPays.com

Some people see this as protecting children, even though each new TLD brings hundreds of millions in new domain registrations. The people pushing the .xxx TLD have all the hysterical parents behind them, which amounts to basically free publicity on a "webmaster responsibility" platform.


Ugh :Oh crap

I highly doubt that because if that was the case they would be cheap $10 a domain not 60 to 75 . If everybody is so crazy about protecting kids how come no one ever came out with a kids only browser thats only sees .sites with a special kid meta tag. I will tell you why because kids are the excuse which is sad

That's an EXCELLENT point... far easier to make .XXX essentially forced on us if you somehow get Visa and MC on board. Gee, I wonder how much money these .XXX people would make if Visa somehow decided that they were only going to process for adult sites on .XXX domain names? And of course if this damn domain name extension hadn't gone through in the first place, we wouldn't be worrying about this at all since Visa can't force ICANN to create an adult-only domain name extension. I'd REALLY like to know which companies put us in this mess.

I agree with you 100%.

Great comments, but more should have been done on ICANN's public forum over the proposed TLD at the time rather than now, after the fact.

I made my comments in this May 13, 2003 post. I included several links along with my thoughts:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-xxx/msg00053.html


Fight the nothing more to say!

Geezus Christ....


XBIZ

I happen to know Jason from way back and he wanted me to get involved with backing this a while ago-

I just never saw the intrinsic value for webmasters here-
Jason is a very smart guy, but rallying webmasters to get behind this is an arduous task that is insurmountable

and away we go

Completely agree.

whats 2257? :winkwink:

I hope spunky.xxx will be available

"and of those proceeds, a percentage will be donated to Adult Sites Advocating Child Protection and the battle against child pornography"

I guess that answers the question as to whether or not ASACP was offered money in exchange for their support. It would be a shame if this .XXX thing ends up causing SERIOUS hardship on the industry and it was brought about so that someone could cash in on a percentage of each domain name sale. I'd like to know if the ASACP Advisory Counsel agreed to supporting this and if they did what their reasons were other than money, or if this was something that was mandated from above. Did Joan make this decision? Did Helmy? Seems that ASACP's mission is being used to justify this .XXX bullshit, and I find that VERY unfortunate. Has Helmy gone on record about this yet?

I was at one of their meetings where they were looking for support back in 2003, as were some I see posting in this thread.

I voted no, the majority of the people asked to raise their hands regarding adopting an xxx tld voted no.

This is bullshit, right from the start. It is relegating all of us into a managed and controled area.

Do not let this come to being.

What is wrong with ASACP supporting this bullshit? They are getting paid to support it?

If they are getting paid to support it, isn't that a conflict of interest with their supposed goals of protecting kids?

One of their main goal should be to protect free speech if they are industry supported.

If they don't support free speech, how are they any better than those right wing groups attacking porn and claiming it's for "the children"?

why do you say so? (i was not part of it, this is why i do not know)

thats fucking great! that is an awesome idea

bump :disgust

FSC has not supported the .xxx domains. They are bad for free speech. Money and a seat on the Board couldn't buy FSC support.

Now, whose your daddy?

:disgust

REDUX

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/it...tepaper_7.html

Read your history.

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/itas/whitepaper_7.html
 

:Oh crap

hmm - that was weird.

These guys will make their $1.5 million investment back in one day :disgust

Where do we complain?

Best thing I've read about this is that if we don't support a .XXX idea, then we shouldn't buy the domain names.

This action unfortunately brings potential risks. If for some reason there was a .com porn cleanup, you'd regret not having bought your .xxx domain. So essentially we're being forced to buy extra domain names to cover our ass, even though we don't want to, as a backup, in case this goes where we all can easily see it going. Without this company pushing for a .XXX TLD we would not be forced to do so. Isn't this illegal? There's gotta be a name for that.

That's like getting a new phone area code, and Bell telling us that we'll possibly lose our old phone numbers in the future if we don't buy a SECOND phone line now with the new area code. But even worse of course. WTF?!

How I thought no one was supporting this?

I don?t suppose any of this will really matter unless the use of these becomes mandatory. I would really like to see a list of who stands to gain from this. Without naming any names, it disgusts me to see people attempting to profit from the current unstable atmosphere that surrounds the industry in the name of ?child pornography?.

That is bullshit. Everybody knows that CP to the mainstream adult biz is a scourge. Honestly, I don?t even know how CP guys make money because nobody I know would even process a transaction for that shit.

CP just gives people convenient high moral ground to stand on and there have been a number of organizations (including the government) that are using it to fuck with a lot of people right now. It?s a bullshit tactic, its wrong, and it obscures the real problem.

It would be very easy to make a meta tag that would block adult content. That would be free and I?m sure everyone would do it, plus if you made it mandatory it would be easy to enforce.

Why hasn?t anyone suggested anything like this?

damn thats bad news