ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain

stalebread writes "Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet." From the article: "In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain. The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet."

Good

[captainclever]

1) establish .xxx domain
2) pass law forcing all questionable content to use .xxx domains only
3) block all .xxx domains.

Although it would have been fun to own goatse.xxx..

United at last!

[OpenSourced]

Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites

I guess that if those two can be united against a measure, it's probably a really iditotic measure.

Oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

Where else will I find porn on the internet now?

Not to worry

[Toreo asesino]

This can only be good news for the Cook Islands - for all your pr0n domain-name needs, just get a .co.ck [google.co.ck] site instead!

http://www.big.co.ck/ [big.co.ck] is still available I believe; let the auctioning commence!

Damn!

[Rob T Firefly]

I was all excited about buying an xxx domain and putting no porn on it, thereby breaking the system.

Unneeded

[buxrule]

There's already a dedicated top level domain for porn: .com The ICANN should put a stop to all those wise asses trying to make legitimate, non-porn related .com sites that have popped up throughout the sea of quality sex media.

ICANN adopts more specific .FUK and .SUK

[SlappyBastard]

ICANN today announced the introduction of two new TLDs: .FUK and .SUK.

The announcement coincides with ICANN's move to dismiss the introduction of .XXX.

An ICANN spokesman commented off the record, "In truth, we should be more honest. XXX indicates we're hiding something."

He added, "That can't be on the open and transparent internet. We feel that Dot-FUK and Dot-SUK represent what everone is looking for, just like all Dot-ORGs are not-for-profit groups, right? Know what I mean? Say no more."

ICANN also expressed interest in adding .GAY so "straight dudes and closet dudes needn't worry."

ICANN's next step coming in June is a decision on .PERV, whose supporters hope can be used to herd all the child molesters into one spot.

The move is opposed by the producers of Dateline: NBC, who say it could destroy their growing cottage industry of filming pedophiles being confronted.

ICANN is believed to be leaning toward adopting .PERV, as all things on the internet belong in nifty containers marked accurately.

Re:Wrong solution to the right problem

[Dining Philanderer]

Is there really a Joe Boobmaster? Website please, I need to research so I can tell everyone not to go there...