Are you for .xxx or against? (poll)
 

Are you for .xxx or against?

Bush administration would vote "against" last I heard.
http://news.com.com/Bush+administrat...3-5833764.html

The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.

Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until the .xxx suffix can receive further scrutiny. The domain was scheduled to receive final approval Tuesday.

"The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children," Gallagher said in a letter that was made public on Monday.

looks like a landslide so far

I'm curious to see if there is any support for .xxx in any numbers at all. Will be interesting to see what happens at the Xbiz conference.

probably people like Franck will vote "for xxx" just to stir shit

The results seem pretty clear already...has anyone started an online petition or anything?

Yeah. If Bush sees our poll numbers he will change his opinion to oppose us.



(Note: Not really, he doesn't change his opinion even as a result of his own polls ;-) )

just a question about .xxx

will the owners of .com will be given priority to buy the .xxx (e.g gfy.com to gfy.xxx) or there will be a racing contest on buying cool .xxx domains? If thats so... it will suck big time!

but if all of you ___.com owners will be given the priority to own the same ___.xxx domain.. it think .xxx can be given a chance...

my 2 cents... :)

Who among us has "mixed feelings"? Domain speculators?

Much more effective than an online petition: send an email to: [email protected]

In the body of your email, explain that you are an adult webmaster in the adult online entertainment community and that you don't want .XXX

after that, throw in anything you want about free speech, red light districting, etc, etc... the main point that has to get across in large volumes, is that the adult online entertainment community does not want this.

http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm...ent/index.html

I would not hold my breath . . . . and what about people that may own the .net version? or any other tld

keep in mind that the Bush administration has not made any recent comments about .xxx anymore

they were asked for it by the Christian groups last year and then they indeed heavily opposed .xxx until May 2006 when .xxx was killed as we thought

now 3 weeks ago .xxx has very suddenly re-appeared (ICANN said "they voted not to approve .xxx last year but didn't reject it yet) and although the Christian groups are vocal again, (although less vocal than before, they must be also tired from it :) ) the Bush administration didnt comment on it yet...so we have to wait and see if they will intervene again or not... lets hope they will :)

omg... youre right dude! what about if there's a different owner between a .com and .net domain... oh crap...

now my thinkin's messed up... :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap


stupid thread! LOL

Just another thought to throw into the pot...

There are multinational issues over .XXX TLD's. Several nations have already declared they do not want .XXX's and, at the core, object to ICANN having any authority to act on their behalf.

There is also the matter of the functions of ICANN itself being passed over to a democratic international authority where each nation will manage it's own .tld's etc.. Some "tension" already exists tho there was agreement to let ICANN run for another 3 years under a more relaxed policy. The continued attempts to implement a .xxx TLD are basically giving ICANN a hard time trying to pacify all parties/nations.

Totally Against it. Too easy for ISP to push us in a virtual getho by blocking all .xxx domains... This have been discussed for many year now :2 cents:

i am against .xxx

an article I read on the subject said it was going to be a voluntary thing and it could not be legally inforced as .com stands for comercial businesses and adult sites are comercial businesses...

.XXX works only if you can move your current .com, otherwise it's a scam to make money.

Come on man, get a grip on reality. Obviously it's an idea purely driven by the foresight of big monetary gains.

Thats funny I bet you dollars to donuts if it gets passed within one year it will be law in the us.

then you need to read some of the posts about this before you think that it is a good idea.

How hard will it them be for companies like AOL to filter out the .xxx sites?? Well there goes 15% or more of sales for a LOT of people.

Will someone that is very good at writing and fibbing. Who also has a list of Christian forums and such. Please draft up a letter implying that the adult industry is once again trying to legitimize pornography once more and is attempting to pass a pornographic top level domain extension. That pornographers are looking to create a broader marketplace and expose even more of the Internet with their pornographic filth.

Am email I tried to send to Director Bobby Rinaldi with porn photos of a prospective newish girl last Sunday was returned to me by aol saying that the transmission was undeliverable due to "Too Many Body Parts" ---might they not already be starting to censor our free speech????

I'd really like to see that. "Too many body parts"?

oh..and email sent to - [email protected]

if this board was more professional overall, we could send this poll to ICANN showing them what really adult webmasters think about .xxx