There's .com's, .net's, .org's, and website address endings for nearly every country in the globe and the porn industry wants to add another: .xxxThey've been throwing the idea at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for a while now. However hard they try to get this domain name ratified, ICANN keeps shooting down the idea, and has once again shot it down.
Ironically, the porn industry proposed this ideal for moral reasons. For once, they are "thinking of the children". Parents are always afraid that their kids will stumble across porn sites by accidentally misspelling some common .com addresses. By having a .xxx domain, all adult entertainment sites would have to be restricted to .xxx addresses, therefore freeing up all those tangly .com addresses.
Sounds like a good idea, right? Harder for people to accidentally stumble into porn sites, and easier for those looking for porn to find it. So why does this seemingly good idea keep being turned down by ICANN? Screening websites. Somebody will have to go through all the websites, billions and billions of them, and find any porn ones and give them the boot. And, to be fair to the porn kings, they'd have to trudge through all those .xxx addresses to make sure non-porn or even anti-porn sites appear. That's a hefty job for anyone to do... and so, ICANN won't be making the .xxx address... and a loud cheer erupts from the NetNanny corporation.
1 comment:
I would've thought that Net Nanny would like the idea. Instead of blocking random sites that make any reference what so ever to "sex" or "breast" and letting some actual porn sights under get through they can just block anything with a ".xxx". It would make a more effective product.
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