RSSICANN Again Delays .XXX Domain
By Nate Mook | Published September 19, 2005, 12:45 PM
ICANN late last week delayed a decision on the final approval of the .xxx domain name, which was intended to create a "red light district" for the Internet. The Bush administration formally asked ICANN to stop the process last month after receiving nearly 6,000 complaints.
It's not clear when ICANN would take up the issue again, but said it was seeking changes to an agreement with the company that was selected to manage the domain's registrations. The organization did, however, approve a new .CAT domain for promoting the Catalan language. Catalonia, an area in eastern Spain that includes Barcelona and extends into France, has long pushed for independence and cultural recognition.
I've been waiting for a domain like .porn, .sex, or .xxx for a long time. The point in it is simple. To give the porn industry something they can use besides .com/net/org/etc. Forcing all Pornography sites to move to the .xxx domain will allow "Net Nanny" filters work much more precise.
They will not have to block sites individually but rather the *.xxx name, which will enable a new era of "Net Nanny" filtering. An era which will be more precise and potentially never block non-pornographic content.
I know one of the biggest problems with the "Net Nanny" filters when they first came out is that they either: A) Blocked Nothing or B) blocked everything. I had a friend who's "Net Nanny" blocked www.Nickelodeon.com, which is a cartoon TV Channel.
Many will say, they cannot force the pornographic sites to move to this new extension. Well, yes they can. After their current contract is up, they can refuse to allow them to re-register the name on anything besides a .xxx extension. Furthermore, they can also give a promotional period where any current pornographic site can transfer over to the .xxx extension free of charge, and end their current contract with that extension.
Regulating it's usage will be rather easy also. If someone finds a site which is not using the required .xxx extension, they report the site to ICANN, and then ICANN can fine them. The fine would have to be so heavy that the companies would not want to do it, and just pay the fine. IE: The fine should be allowed to up to 500,000$ USD, and ICANN disables their domain name until the site pays the fine.
What this will accomplish is simple. It will hurt the site to much with the first or second offense for them to want to continue operating on its current extension. Between the fine itself, and the downtime of their site, they will want to move. Having their site turned off for several days will hurt the profit much more than the fine itself, so they will want to move before it ever happens.
In conclusion, ICANN, please do this. :-D
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|The Bush Administration stands for moral values. It's for that very reason that they are refusing to allow the beginning stages of regulation of porn on the net. During the Clinton administration, Al Gore and wife, Tipper Gore, established the video game and television show rating system so that parents would be informed and aware of the content of materials their kids were receiving.
I am absolutely outraged at the level of ignorance that goes into decision making in the US.
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|So I guess that since Al Gore created the internet he didn't put any porn on there, so that is why the BUSH administration doesn't what this to go through.
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|Nothing is ever simple.
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|10% of all internet traffic is porn. If you wanted to know.
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|Really? I thought it was somewhere closer to 60%.
But I heard that a looooooong time ago.
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