XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use

eldavojohn writes "The contract between ICANN & ICM Registry has just been revised for procedures on using the .XXX TLD. ICM is saying that the domain should be readily available for registration as early as this summer. This means that parents will most likely have an easier time protecting their children from these sites and these sites will be more tightly regulated and easier to scrutinize by authorities. ICM also mentioned the collaboration with International Foundation for Online Responsibility."

if only

[huckda]

they would then REQUIRE any and all illicit sexual content on the web to use .xxx
and ENFORCE it...school administrator's jobs of content filtering would get a thousand times easier...

Re:Clarification

[Ernesto Alvarez]

There is no .xxx domain because it is already known how good such course of action is. [rfc-editor.org]
Now, they've made one in order to allow some organization to get some easy cash, while screwing us all with all this "think of the children" stuff. Gee, thanks a lot for listening to what the technical community has to say.

(At least read the title of the document linked, it says a lot)

BTW, I agree with you on TLDs, only country codes should be allowed as TLDs.

Re:They should base it on the .com's already sold.

[epee1221]

Why should anyone have a right to a new domain name just because they have some other domain name?

The intent seems to be to move all the porn to the .xxx TLD, not just make a new place to put porn. So porn.com could move to porn.xxx.
But then where would we put porn.net? Of course, it is doubtful that porn.com wouldn't want to keep both porn.com and porn.xxx, so you have a point there.

Re:I call dibs on...

[fyngyrz]

You missed:

• MoveHereSoWeCanCensorYouAndRepressSexuality.xxx

NO IT DOESN'T! Or, Article Is A Troll

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

This means that parents will most likely have an easier time protecting their children from these sites and these sites will be more tightly regulated and easier to scrutinize by authorities

NO IT DOESN'T. Please at least pretend you've read RFC 3675 [ietf.org].

Re:Clarification

[LMariachi]

I have long been arguing for .here to be a reserved TLD for free use for everyone - like the private RFC1918 IP addresses (10.x.x.x 192.168.x.x etc).

Bonjour/Zeroconf/mDNS already provides this, [apple.com] albeit with .local rather than .here

Re:I call dibs on...

[ajs318]

Simple. Make it a condition of registration that everyone registrant of an .xxx domain must have a genuine site (not a link farm or placeholder) ready to be hosted there before a whois record is created. Suspend the whois (and therefore effectively disable access to the site from anyone not using its registered nameservers) if any abuse is suspected.

Of course, this requires a watchdog with teeth .....