.XXX article on Yahoo
 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...et_pornography

Some of the more interesting parts

ICANN staff will now craft a contract with ICM Registry Inc., the Jupiter, Fla., company that made the bid. If the board and ultimately the U.S. Commerce Department approve it, ".xxx" names could appear in use by the year's end.

Skeptics argue, however, that porn sites are likely to keep their existing ".com" storefronts, even as they set up shop in the new ".xxx" domain name. And that will reduce the effectiveness of software filters set up to simply block all ".xxx" names.

The ".xxx" domain "legitimizes this group, and it gives false hope to parents," said Patrick Trueman, senior legal counsel at the Family Research Council and a former Justice Department official in charge of obscenity prosecutions.


The adult entertainment industry is also hardly behind ".xxx" as a group. Many of its webmasters consider the domain "the first step toward driving the adult Internet into a ghetto very much like zoning laws have driven adult stores into the outskirts," said Mark Kernes, senior editor at the trade monthly Adult Video News.

But given the limited effectiveness of a voluntary ".xxx" for filtering, Internet filtering expert Seth Finkelstein calls ".xxx" no more than a mechanism "to extract fees from bona fide pornographers and domain name speculators." (ICANN also gets an unspecified cut of each registration fee.)

Anti-porn activist Donna Rice Hughes, however, remains unconvinced.

"They are not going to give up their `.com' addresses," she said of porn sites. "It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out."


Amazing the stange bedfellows this thing is making.

Yeah, I read that too. Was interesting point about CC processing maybe lighten up if the domain being processed for is on a .xxx. Although I'd believe it when I saw it.

Also nice to see a push for ".kids" as I've been preaching about, lmao. Easier to just lock a childs browser to .kids ONLY than to try to filter off things.

Maybe if they give .XXX site a discount on transaction fess. More would use it.

OH God forbid mainstream sites would have to switch I mean

disney.kids
cartoonnetwork.kids
nick.kids
pokemon.kids

would be such a pain in the ass for them to switch.

$60/domain or $6.99/domain

Hmm which do you think webmasters will use?

if we gave up our dot com's what would the activist put on pokemeinthecornholio.com ? links to the Catholic Church?

~Ray

lol yep it would be a pain for them to switch, but browsers could auto-preset to them for instant bonus on new bundled computers. And it also goes directly to the stated purpose of the zillion other attempts to "protect kids".

That's what I say. I think its a fantastic idea to have a g rated section of the net for kids and families only.
And there are tens of thousands of huge companies who would pour hundreds of millions of dollars to have a kids and parents only section of the internet.
Its great PR for them.

Toy companies, food companies, entertainment networks, diaper companies, magazine publishers, medicine companies, clothing companies, any family oriented companies, any company that wants parents as their customers.

This effort would truly have an endless supply of cash.
These big companies would be tripping over themselves to give money and get their name on this.
having a .kids section of the net is a win win for everyone.

double post

Woa...

"As envisioned, ICM would charge $60 for each of up to 500,000 names it expects to register, $10 of which would go to a nonprofit organization that would, among other things, educate parents about safe surfing for children."


http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,...tml?tw=rss.TOP

I like how they say that and not ASACP...

$60 x 500,00 = $30,000,000

Easy money.

what? ... the nonprofit group determines who is eligible to register?!?!
you've gotta be kidding me *shaking head* .. unbelievable

Disallow:
*.*
Allow:
*.kids

Seems simple to me!
:thumbsup

Is that to depressing?

so its not a question of who registers first anymore .. its who gets 'approved'??

IMO the commerce department will approve it for sure :disgust

it would make more sense to allow ONLY .kids sites rather than filter out EVERY domain except .kids & make us switch to .xxx

Stick that racist symbol up your ass

not really. kids shouldn't ONLY be allowed to access cartoon sites.
what if kids search for information on the internet?

You should change your NICK handle to "Naive" :1orglaugh

And us adult should have to have the internet dumbed down so it's safe for 5 years olds. The original internet was for use by ADULTS( not for pornogrpahy purposes of course but still ADULT use only )