Stage set for '.xxx' Internet addresses
 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internet's primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in "xxx."

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said it would begin negotiations with ICM Registry Inc., run by British businessman Stuart Lawley, to iron out technical issues and prices for the new Web addresses.

Adult-oriented sites, a $12 billion industry, probably could begin buying "xxx" addresses as early as fall or winter depending on ICM's plans, ICANN spokesman Kieran Baker said.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Just wait

Pretty soon you'll have a big (P) imprinted on your clothing for pornographer.

trying to remember where in the past did a government segregate a part of the population based upon.. oh wait.. nvm

It's going to be a war to buy sex.xxx

Downside, .xxx sites will automatically have a black mark against them for SEs, etc.

I didn't know that ICANN was a government.

I'll buy se.xxx