ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains
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Velcroman1 writes "The World Wide Web red-light district is poised to explode. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet's governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the adult entertainment industry on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — otherwise called the 'begin printing money phase.' The so-called 'landrush' phase signifies the true launch of .xxx websites, following the Sept. 5 date when ICM Registry began accepting .xxx applications from trademarked companies — those looking to use a .xxx address and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website."
Can't wait for Slashdot.xxx (Score:2, Funny)
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There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score:1)
Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
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By the other side, it just makes it easier to google with "site:.xxx". Anybody with more than one neuron will probably get both a .xxx and a .org or .net domains for the site.
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True but it is not exactly hard to find porn on the internet whether you are looking for it or not.
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The man with the 7-figure pockets could get sexe.xxx and sexo.xxx, but not sex.xxx? After the battle over sex.com, I'm curious who was awarded that domain.
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While you battled with your 7-figures about a single world, I registered every other word in the dictionary and created new niches of porn.
You should check out our wildest newly added categories: categories [tinyonline.co.uk]
(while joking, that list does sound like it could be made into a porno.)
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Dunno, but I bet he's wined and dined the boss of ICANN. Maybe even thrown in a luxury yacht or two.
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It's not necessary the only domain of a porn site.
Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score:5, Insightful)
> will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries, schools and workplaces. Somehow I doubt there is much demand for porn originating from those environments anyway, at least not much money-raising porn.
According to a recent article in the Economist [economist.com], porn browsing is growing fastest on smartphones. The .xxx domain wouldn't be blocked on those devices unless attached to a corporate network.
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score:5, Insightful)
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
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You mean the ones that already do?
Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score:4, Informative)
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>but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked,
That's not very many.
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BMO
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>but here in India, there are around 30-40 porn sites blocked,
That's not very many.
-- BMO
you missed the second part. .com/.net/etc), the ENTIRE .xxx domain is blocked
in addition to these 30-40 (which are on
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I think that was the intended point: 0.00001% of non-.xxx blocked, while 100% of .xxx blocked - it shows that companies using an xxx domain will also provide access via other TLDs as well
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So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
Will the people in those countries be paying for Pr0n?
.XXX be blocked in those countries. Not a prob
Even if they could afford it, when the government controls the banks (had to resist making an ISR joke here) how could they? I can think of three nations off the top of my head who will block a $30 P/m pr0n site, yet you can get a shag from a live girl for less then that (in one of them, you could probably get two depending on your negotiating skills).
What kind of person pays for Pr0n these days. Would
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The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries...
When was the last time you went thru the computer lab at a library??? *yuck*
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So the sticky keyboard is being replaced with the sticky smartphone screen
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They actually have some good ideas.
"He wants to build trust: .xxx will be the only top-level domain to provide free virus scanning for all its sites. He also plans to create a payment system on the lines of iTunes and PayPal, which will shield users’ data and allow them to buy bits of content instead of paying a monthly subscription."
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"Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business."
Um, no. You could not be more incorrect.
Do you really think that the more successful sites are the ones not filtered?
Think - existing filters already exist, AND they block a vast majority of porn sites.
Sites like brazzers dot com etc all do just FINE and they are filtered 100%. Presuming they open brazzers dot xxx, they will STILL be filtered 100%.
I /guess/ you could possibly make an argument that
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Any idiot who thinks otherwise and sets up a pr0n site will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
People make money from porn on the Internet?
Is there really any porn you can't get for free by the gigabyte?
Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score:5, Funny)
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While reciting the pledge of allegiance? That's just going too far.
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While reciting the pledge of allegiance? That's just going too far.
I think he means he's reciting the pledge of allegiance.
But now I think about it, there's Nazi fetish pr0n, why not US patriotism fetish pr0n.
Rule 34, I'll assume this one to be fulfilled, I have a high tolerance for freaky things but this would be beyond my ability to bear.
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Is there really any porn you can't get for free by the gigabyte?
How would you know how much porn is available for free? Hmmm?
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I think the better question would be....
What the hell do you use the internet for....?
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Unlikely. The majority of people who actually pay for porn are probably watching at home on an unfiltered connection.
The freeloaders who watch at work, or on mommy and daddy's connection aren't paying. They are the ones that will be filtered.
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google.xxx (Score:4, Funny)
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Time to register google.xxx for mad money!
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Programmer porn [uproxx.com]
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Shit, why don't they just do away with the tiered system altogether. I mean it's not like ".com", ".org", ".net", etc actually mean anything at all.
I want a server named "This is my cool webpage" (yes, including spaces).
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http://thisismycoolwebpage/ [thisismycoolwebpage]
Do you really want that?
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That should have read as
http:/// [http] this%20is%20my%20cool%20webpage/
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It does help organize things a bit. http://www.coolwebpages.co.uk/ [coolwebpages.co.uk] you know immediately is english language, but also strictly British. .gov, .edu and .mil are generally safer than a .ru site to visit, and you know that you're going to have an epileptic seizure if you try reading the flashing text on a .jp site. You can figure out someone's nationality from their accent in speech, but a nationalized or regional top level domains are the only identifier about the location or level of trust you have before yo
goatse.xxx (Score:3)
The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a .cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
In a way its a good idea... the over-controlling nutcases can think they are actually doing something by blocking the entire domain, while all the actual pr0n, not wanting to be blocked, remains in the .com domain.
In a way its a bad idea, because most of the money will be generated by giant corporations buying the domain so pranksters/whatever can't abuse their name. Expect to see ibm.xxx purchased by ibm solely to keep other people from messing with it.
Re:goatse.xxx (Score:4, Interesting)
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The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a .cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
Haha good idea. A lot of QR code reading apps stupidly open a browser window with a page in it immediately instead of showing you the URL and giving you the option to open it. Great for goatse and browser attacks.
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Mod "+1 I will never scan a QR code again"
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http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chl=http://goatse.xxx/ [googleapis.com]
sarahpalin.xxx (Score:1)
scam + blackmail (Score:5, Informative)
This is a scam.
I own a adult domain non-generic and working website.
I have the trademark for it but they didn't let me register my domain.xxx because they have reserved thousands of popular words for a later auction.
When i try to register it it says "RESERVED". My lawyer has contacted them without response.
Also they have sold lots of valuable domains before september to investors without telling nobody, you can check register date in some generic domains.
It can also be called blackmail.
This domain will not succeed because its owned by speculators and cybersquatters.
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Without telling nobody? At least they told somebody.
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It's also completely pointless. The "red light district of the internet" exploded in the 90s. I rarely even look at the domain names when browsing for porn.. who cares?
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I feel bad that folks like you that have to deal with this.
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Re:scam + blackmail (Score:4, Informative)
It can also be called blackmail.
Extortion perhaps, but not blackmail: blackmail is when someone threatens to make private information public if you do not comply with their wishes.
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Officially notify them that you own the trademark and do not agree with this and that you are willing to pay the regular price for it.
Also notify them that you will sue anyone who uses that domain for trademark infringement.
Now the domain name is a tainted product.
Make sure they realize that you will make sure that whoever does end up buying the domain will be informed that ICANN new it was a tainted product.
ICANN (Score:2)
It's such a scam (Score:5, Insightful)
My company's attorney asked me if we needed to register all of our domains under their "Register your brand with .XXX so someone else doesn't" program. I told them that while we could do that, there's no reason why someone would want to use our domain for porn, and even if they wanted to, they could register under .org, .net, .info, or one of the dozens of country domains available to anyone (some domain speculator already grabbed our .org and .net domains). I asked him if he was prepared to spend thousands of dollars/year preemptively registering our domain and common mispellings across all available TLD's on the off chance that some porn operator thought that our company's would be attractive to people looking for porn (our company's name is associated more with industrial products than big bouncing boobs). I think he finally understood why this .xxx preregistration was such a scam.
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I think he finally understood why this .xxx preregistration was such a scam.
Also especially because the .info and .biz TLD's are doing so well...
As a side note, I don't get it. I clicked on the button to register the domain, and it took me to another page where I had to fill out another form and enter my CC info yet again. When I clicked register on that page, it took me to yet another page and I had to apply again...
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You're associated with industrial products, not big bouncing boobs? I'm sure there's an audience for that (Possibly NSFW) [youtube.com].
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If you noticed there were advertisements in that, you're gay.
Speaking of which, I think I need a new 2-speed battery drill.
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Personally I'm a bit curious about what will show up on kernel.xxx.
Carl Icahn!? (Score:2)
My first read was why the hell is Carl Icahn getting into .xxx domain markets... doesn't he have anything better to do with his time?
Phase names (Score:4, Interesting)
> of
> Registry began accepting
> trademarked companies — those looking to use
> a
> company from appearing on a
Extortion? (Score:2)
Are you saying that companies that registered a name should get it under all TLDs? Because that would make TLDs completely pointless.
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Well, for example there wouldn't be a gmail.com without TLDs as it's already registered on a German domain. The Internet is much bigger than you think, and TLDs serve a useful purpose in keeping it sorted.
Re:Phase names (Score:4, Funny)
and those seeking to prevent their company from appearing on a .xxx website
Where at "microsoft.xxx" the truthful comment that their servers constantly go down on you, brings on an entirely new and unintended meaning...
Barebones servers... (Score:3)
On slashdot.xxx
Synchronicity (Score:4, Funny)
A few articles ago there was an article about a better way to pack balls into something.
Now this story.
Coincidence? You decide.
Land Value Tax (Score:2)
I'd be amused to find out (Score:2)