New domains on the way?

[Paul K]

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By early 2005 the net could have two new domain names.

The .post and .travel net domains have been given preliminary approval by the net's administrative body.

The names are just two of a total of 10 proposed domains that are being considered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Icann.

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asia - for Asian companies
.cat - for Catalan language and culture
.jobs - for employment agencies/human resources
.mail - to help anti-spam efforts
.mobi - for mobile phones/devices
.post - for postal services
.tel - to help voice over net telephony (two proposals)
.travel - for hotel, airlines and travel firms
.xxx - for pornographers

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One that may not win approval is a proposal to set up a .xxx domain for pornographic websites. A similar proposal has been made many times in the past.

But Icann has been reluctant to approve it because of the difficulty of making pornographers sign up and use it.

Yeah good luck getting all the porn sites and sites with adult images etc out their to change to .xxx domains now how easy would it be to block all sites in one hit if they did that

[Chris W]

http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-...c-comments.htm

more information found above... with links to the sites for the discussion of each new TLD and forum on ICANNs website

Originally Posted by Paul

Yeah good luck getting all the porn sites and sites with adult images etc out their to change to .xxx domains now how easy would it be to block all sites in one hit if they did that

So should *my* site have a .xxx domain? There's nothing "pornographic" on there (unless you have a very broad description), I just sell adult products *to* adults, why should I be tarred with the same brush as sites that advertise "see innocent teens taking 12" monsters"?

This is just an attempt by narrow minded individuals to try to block *anything* which *they* don't approve of.

[NitroNutter]

perhaps there should be 2 adult domains then ? .xxx and .adult

.xxx is for the xplicit stuff .adult for sites like ann summers etc

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Graham

So should *my* site have a .xxx domain? There's nothing "pornographic" on there (unless you have a very broad description), I just sell adult products *to* adults, why should I be tarred with the same brush as sites that advertise "see innocent teens taking 12" monsters"?

This is just an attempt by narrow minded individuals to try to block *anything* which *they* don't approve of.

Are there images on there which your steriotypical middle class parent wouldn't want their 8 year old daughter to see due to their adult nature?
If so, what's your URL?

You are right though, there is a huge difference between a adultwear/marital aid retailer and a pr0n site.
Course in a perfect world, pr0n sites would always have been xxx. rather than www.
If this could actually be enforced, so that pr0n sites have to use xxx in their domain, then search engines could finally be used by ford escort drivers and potential NHS nurses

I'd go along with the .adult, or maybe have ratings, like .pg, .12A etc

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by Graham

So should *my* site have a .xxx domain? There's nothing "pornographic" on there (unless you have a very broad description), I just sell adult products *to* adults, why should I be tarred with the same brush as sites that advertise "see innocent teens taking 12" monsters"?

This is just an attempt by narrow minded individuals to try to block *anything* which *they* don't approve of.

If your site has no pornographic material on it then why would your site be required to carry a .xxx domain marker? If they were to bring out the .xxx domain then I would expect there to be a set of guidelines provided that would categorise what should be given a .xxx domain and what should not.
The .xxx catergory should be held for sites providing access to pornographic material, sites that are created to provide materials suitable for adults would gain by having the .adult domain as it would allow those sites to be clearly segregated from the porn sites and therefor not be impacted by a filter that sets out to block xxx sites.

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Are there images on there which your steriotypical middle class parent wouldn't want their 8 year old daughter to see due to their adult nature? If so, what's your URL?

See the information in my profile!

Originally Posted by Paul

If your site has no pornographic material on it then why would your site be required to carry a .xxx domain marker?

Because there are those who want *all* "adult" content to be .xxx

If they were to bring out the .xxx domain then I would expect there to be a set of guidelines provided that would categorise what should be given a .xxx domain and what should not.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that the Moral Minority would be pushing for the strictest possible definition/ interpretation of those guidelines.

[NitroNutter]

Originally Posted by Graham

Because there are those who want *all* "adult" content to be .xxx



And you can bet your bottom dollar that the Moral Minority would be pushing for the strictest possible definition/ interpretation of those guidelines.

thats why having multiple adult domains would be a good compromise

.xxx for porn itself .adult for adult and marital related goods etc you could take it further but i really dont see the need

Personally then i would block .xxx at the router and block .adult on the kidz comps only. That gives us the end users the choice to be able to block what ever with the greatest of ease and enjoy safer family surfing, while still being able to get to some of the fun stuff