Internet's Naming Board OK's New Domains for Porn

[Adam Dicker]

The board of directors that oversees the Internet's naming system approves the creation of a red-light district online for pornographic websites following a decade-long battle over .xxx domains.

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[Bill Roy]

This may well turn out to be not so-good for the adult industry IMHO.

I can well imagine all 'public' computer terminals (schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government offices and departments) and nearly all businesses doing a blanket ban on the .xxx. Then of course you have the ISP's some of whom could well 'blanket ban' any links to .xxx, this is without the likes of Microsoft who again could decide to require special authentication to access .xxx such as the verification through credit card information.

So although the supporters of .xxx may think this is a cart blanche money making opportunity I think it may well prove to be if not a poisoned challace then at least a 'tainted' challace.

[Nathan King]

This may well turn out to be not so-good for the adult industry IMHO.

I think they'll be okay at the end of their day.

I can well imagine all 'public' computer terminals...and nearly all businesses doing a blanket ban on the .xxx

Isn't this one of the benefits of the extension? If a website contains adult content and somebody doesn't want to allow access to it on their computer, they have that right and it should be easy to enforce. It just seems like the responsible thing to do. Most of the professionals in the industry already participate in 3rd party programs to make it easier to block adult content.