ICANN Board Approves Dot-XXX Top-level Domain for Porn‎

[Sterling]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...X9sISHyubfGX9A

It's about time!

[MattheP]

It's about time!

Why?

[britishbulldog]

Who the hell is gonna move their site to .xxx when it will be blocked by most isp,search engines etc.......bad move all around,ridiculous imho.....

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Why?

left winger ?

[kunkun]

That will lost many visiters..

[James Jean]

What a waste. Another exotic tld to go the way of .travel, .aero, .job and .useless I completely agree with britishbulldog's post

Who the hell is gonna move their site to .xxx when it will be blocked by most isp,search engines etc.......bad move all around,ridiculous imho.....

[MattheP]

Who the hell is gonna move their site to .xxx when it will be blocked by most isp,search engines etc.......bad move all around,ridiculous imho.....

I agree, thats why I asked OP why he thinks its about time to launch .xxx. And almost all major players in adult industry (webmasters, site & content owners etc.) stands against .xxx, according to adult forum.

[Sterling]

I agree, thats why I asked OP why he thinks its about time to launch .xxx. And almost all major players in adult industry (webmasters, site & content owners etc.) stands against .xxx, according to adult forum.

Number 1 : This is my opinion and only my opinion. This is NOT the gospel.

Number 2: I began my journey in 95. In 97, I went online and started registering names.

This is when alot of people on this board were just learning what a computer was.

I was a vestor in sites such as Name Slinger (A site started by Eric Eric MacIver), and another site, New.Net.

I had premium names with these folk. And, even then with thier plugins being installed anonymously, I was recieving ungodly amounts of traffic with names such as free.xxx, com.xxx, and net.xxx

I myself have seen the effects of .xxx, not something many can say. And, I can say with all my heart based on my experience, the death of dot com will come by dot xxx.

Little do noobs know these days, alot of this was started way back in the day. Alot of companies with their own ideas and alot of money.

ICM had the right approach, and the endurance! My props to them for getting the extension and not the idiots over at New Net.

[radioz]

Here is a New York Times article about this and the new strange aliance of the religious right and pornographers against this new extension:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/te...html?src=busln

[2fly1]

I didn't know it was approved but I knew it had been waiting approval. I don't see anything wrong with it personally. If anything it could help clean up the internet if most of the hardcore porn was moved to that extension. I don't know anything but it seems like the search engines would like it and welcome it. With so much money in sex, Why would the SE's discourage it? With the xxx extension then there would be less excuse to surf onto something you were not wanting to see. I'm not against porn in anyway but it's bad when a young kid or someone else see's something of a sexual nature they were not looking for. Over all it should be good for the internet, If you wanna see xxx you know what extension to enter. Sounds good to me

[Acro]

Can't wait for .yyy and .zzz

[dhara]

I didn't know it was approved but I knew it had been waiting approval. I don't see anything wrong with it personally. If anything it could help clean up the internet if most of the hardcore porn was moved to that extension. I don't know anything but it seems like the search engines would like it and welcome it. With so much money in sex, Why would the SE's discourage it? With the xxx extension then there would be less excuse to surf onto something you were not wanting to see. I'm not against porn in anyway but it's bad when a young kid or someone else see's something of a sexual nature they were not looking for. Over all it should be good for the internet, If you wanna see xxx you know what extension to enter. Sounds good to me

I agree.

[katherine]

If anything it could help clean up the internet if most of the hardcore porn was moved to that extension.

Not going to happen.

I don't know anything but it seems like the search engines would like it and welcome it. With so much money in sex, Why would the SE's discourage it?

Not saying that SE will discourage it, unless you request so. Adult filters are already available eg. SafeSearch Filtering in google.
But you can expect that corporate proxies will block all .xxx by default and it will be blocked in a lot of public places too, like libraries etc. Not to mention the numerous countries that practice Internet censorship (Middle East for example). To me that looks like a pariah extension that might be hard to reach depending on your location. Definitely not poised to be an extension like any other.

I think that adult webmasters pondering that extension will have to ask themselves if they are willing to lose a lot of potential traffic.

Can't wait for .yyy and .zzz

Or .why, that would be an appropriate extension.
.zzz I like it, it goes well with .sleep and rhymes with .sheep

[DomainsInc]

Number 1 : This is my opinion and only my opinion. This is NOT the gospel.

Number 2: I began my journey in 95. In 97, I went online and started registering names.

This is when alot of people on this board were just learning what a computer was.

I was a vestor in sites such as Name Slinger (A site started by Eric Eric MacIver), and another site, New.Net.

I had premium names with these folk. And, even then with thier plugins being installed anonymously, I was recieving ungodly amounts of traffic with names such as free.xxx, com.xxx, and net.xxx

I myself have seen the effects of .xxx, not something many can say. And, I can say with all my heart based on my experience, the death of dot com will come by dot xxx.

Little do noobs know these days, alot of this was started way back in the day. Alot of companies with their own ideas and alot of money.

ICM had the right approach, and the endurance! My props to them for getting the extension and not the idiots over at New Net.

Why would someone running an adult site want a domain that can be so easily blocked? Not to mention, no one calls porn "xxx" anymore. I will agree that a few names will get good traffic with the media buzz currently circulating but much like other failed tlds I don't see this one becoming part of our internet 'language' like .com has. I've been around since 98 and in the adult community people who bought names from new.net were considered morons.

[noelius]

I'm against creating new extensions and I would even support stop using them because users usually forgot extensions. On the other hand, I think extension could be blocked as you say from libraries, and public places, but I can't imagine someone visiting porn in those places...