[Year 12 IT Apps] porn dot com

[Mark KELLY]

"*(CNN) -- It's a big day for the porn industry.
On Friday, ICANN, the not-for-profit corporation that coordinates the
internet's naming system, voted to allow the application of the
controversial ".xxx" top-level domain name for sites that display adult
content.
The domain, which would need further approval before going live on the
internet, would be applied to adult entertainment sites just as ".com" is
now."
The .xxx internet suffix, which was first proposed six years ago by ICM
Registry, a group that sells domain names, "will provide a place online for
adult entertainment providers and their service providers who want to be
part of our voluntary self regulatory community," according to that
company's news release.
Adopting .xxx will be optional. However, some tech blogs speculate a push to
make the domain mandatory for adult-only sites.
ICM Registry has already taken 110,000 pre-reservations for the domain,
which could be available in early 2011, if not sooner, its news release
states.*"

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There's a little more at
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/25/xxx.domain/index.html?iref=NS1&fbid=p-sNdXdIvmv
Of course if it's made mandatory for porn sites to use the xxx top-level
domain, it will be tough to judge whether a site is porn or not.
I can already see a queue of enthusiastic men volunteering to selflessly
serve the public by acting as the judge on *that* committee...

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