ICANN approves .xxx for adult sites
 

By Laurie Segall, staff reporter

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said Friday it approved the .xxx domain for adult web sites after years of nixing the idea.

A spokesman for ICANN, which holds jurisdiction over top-level domains, confirmed the go-ahead.

Registry, the nonprofit organization that has been pushing to establish .xxx, will distribute it to porn sites. Even before approval, the site hosted a start-up plan pending the proposed domain's entry.

"In order to provide an orderly process for members of the registrant community and to use our resources effectively during this intervening period, ICM has decided to undertake the first phase of the Industry Reservation Period," the group's site said.

In June, ICANN's board of directors approved the top-level domain, which is the technical name for the .com, .xxx or .net part of a URL . It was sent to the next committee for approval.

In the past, ICM Registry has argued that the .xxx domain is beneficial to the public, because it indicates a clear signal that the domain contains pornography.

So what is the interpretation of all that? :confused: Will that suffix be assigned to all new adult sites only, or will existing sites be required to change, or will existing sites have the option of requesting the change.

Will the new suffix be mandatory for any/all sites with adult content and who decides what adult content is? With the present drive to out-sensationalize the competition, will my local network news have to change the suffix for their website?

Will it be assigned to only direct and self declared 'adult content' (whatever that is?) or will all verbiage leading to a sex act be required to change? ie. Will .gov be changed due to the inevitable fucking we get? :shrug:

It's about time.

Now, that's a good idea. :boink:

It's probably a plot to make adult content obvious so that clueless bigots can see when others have been naughty.

It will be used also by trappers hoping to get types of users that might do things outside of legal. :starwars: :cuffs:

Why cant they just approve the .cum already !!

lmao. ^^^ that's so much better than .xxx