Mamba
06-25-2010, 02:41 PM
Every internet pornography website to get '.xxx' domain name
Every pornography website on the internet could soon be given a '.xxx' domain name after the end of a long-running legal battle to register the address.
The board of the nonprofit company that controls internet addresses has accepted that it was wrong to repeatedly block attempts by a US firm to register the domain.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, says it will now start by making checks on ICM Registry LLC, the firm that wants to register the '.xxx' as an address.
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as porn sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as porn sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address
ICM's founder Stuart Lawley says he thinks the new address could easily attract at least 500,000 sites.
According to a recent report by Optenet, a firm that sells censorship software, more than 37 per cent of the internet is given over to pornography.
This would make it the second biggest sponsored top-level domain name after '.mobi', which is used for websites designed to work on mobile phones.
A top-level domain name is the phrase used to describe web address suffixes such as .com or .org.
Lawley expects to make $30 million a year in revenue by selling each .xxx site for $60 - and pledges to donate $10 from each sale to child protection initiatives via a nonprofit he has set up, the International Foundation for Online Responsibility, or IFFOR.
He claims to already have 110,000 reservations and could get .xxx up and running within six to nine months after it is approved.
'I think we could do a million or more. There are several million adult TLDs already out there,' he said.
Lawley claims the name will make it easy for web-blocking software to filter out '.xxx' sites by requiring them to carry a machine-readable metatag marking them clearly as pornography
'It will promote more labeled content,' he said. 'People who want to find it know where it is and people who don't see it or want to keep it away from their kids can use mechanisms to do so.'
ICANN has rejected the '.xxx' domain three times since ICM first proposed it in 2000.
But an independent panel earlier this year criticised the board's latest rejection in 2007, saying it did not deal fairly with the application. That prompted ICANN to reopen the bid.
It is the first time that ICANN has been effectively forced to review a decision.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1289547/Every-internet-pornography-website-xxx-domain-name.html#ixzz0rtKX13uD
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Is it me... or is there any real point to this? Your thoughts?
Every pornography website on the internet could soon be given a '.xxx' domain name after the end of a long-running legal battle to register the address.
The board of the nonprofit company that controls internet addresses has accepted that it was wrong to repeatedly block attempts by a US firm to register the domain.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, says it will now start by making checks on ICM Registry LLC, the firm that wants to register the '.xxx' as an address.
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as porn sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as porn sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address
ICM's founder Stuart Lawley says he thinks the new address could easily attract at least 500,000 sites.
According to a recent report by Optenet, a firm that sells censorship software, more than 37 per cent of the internet is given over to pornography.
This would make it the second biggest sponsored top-level domain name after '.mobi', which is used for websites designed to work on mobile phones.
A top-level domain name is the phrase used to describe web address suffixes such as .com or .org.
Lawley expects to make $30 million a year in revenue by selling each .xxx site for $60 - and pledges to donate $10 from each sale to child protection initiatives via a nonprofit he has set up, the International Foundation for Online Responsibility, or IFFOR.
He claims to already have 110,000 reservations and could get .xxx up and running within six to nine months after it is approved.
'I think we could do a million or more. There are several million adult TLDs already out there,' he said.
Lawley claims the name will make it easy for web-blocking software to filter out '.xxx' sites by requiring them to carry a machine-readable metatag marking them clearly as pornography
'It will promote more labeled content,' he said. 'People who want to find it know where it is and people who don't see it or want to keep it away from their kids can use mechanisms to do so.'
ICANN has rejected the '.xxx' domain three times since ICM first proposed it in 2000.
But an independent panel earlier this year criticised the board's latest rejection in 2007, saying it did not deal fairly with the application. That prompted ICANN to reopen the bid.
It is the first time that ICANN has been effectively forced to review a decision.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1289547/Every-internet-pornography-website-xxx-domain-name.html#ixzz0rtKX13uD
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Is it me... or is there any real point to this? Your thoughts?