XXX domain names go live The first .xxx web addresses have gone live on the internet, almost 11 years after the extension was first proposed. On Friday, the porn-only address was added to the domain name system's root servers – through a convoluted process that involves box-ticking from domain overseer ICANN, the US Department of Commerce, and …
OpenDNS do a free filtering service for home users. If yo have a static IP address it will block all filtered content that is requested from that IP address. If you have a dynamic IP address you need to run a client on your PC which tells OpenDNS what your current IP address is.
If a country blocks the .xxx domain, will businesses in that country be able to send email to postmaster@icm.xxx to make formal complaints?
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I don't run a business that qualifies to register an .xxx domain name, but I sure as hell would love to have a .xxx email address.
"I don't run a business that qualifies to register an .xxx domain name ..."
Then start one. It can't be all that difficult and you don't need it to be a success or even realistic.
I'm sure there are many other people who'd love to have a .xxx email address, so you can sell annual-fee email addresses to people, hence leading to 3. - Profit!
(Oh crap; did I just leak my world beating internet business plan?)
frank.ly@smuttyboys.xxx (not yet active, please wait)
The addition of a .xxx TLD means that people who want to keep away from porn (or keep their kids/employees away, at least) have an easy target, conversely those who want to find porn can easily find it.
Of course, there is the slight issue of the bajillion porn related names already in existence. I wonder if it would be possible to force a slow migration of porn sites over to .xxx, by disallowing existing porn sites from renewing their domains, or forcing them to redirect to .xxx from a non-porn frontpage?
Next news headlines:
Australia blocks ".xxx" because porn is "bad" and degrading to women
America blocks ".xxx" to preserve moral and stop something-or-other
UK blocks ".xxx" because the Sun/Mirror/Mail says its disgusting and won't anyone think of the children?
Net result?
Porn remains on .com/.net/.whatever because, when all is said and done, it's the biggest industry on the intertubes and is the global leader in new consumer technologies and markets. Get off your hypocritical, Abrahamic high-horse and just bloody deal with it. Mmm-kay?
The, self-righteous, moralistic brigades in America HAVE already begun bemoaning, and DEMANDING that, SOMETHING be done to FORCE "smut" into these, easily identifiable, and BLOCK-ABLE, ".XXX"-domains.
Boy... it [the blatant call for, arbitrary, raw-censorship] came even faster than most of us feared.
(Sarcasm)
I guess this explains the recent running out of IPV4 space, on the bright side, our Bogon list will be smaller and probably might be left as a static list without daily updates.
(/Sarcasm)
"www.theregister.xxx - sucking the hand that feeds IT" -- heh heh heh that's funny.
I wrote a few weak jokes about "sunrise periods", "morning wood" and iPads, but my real comment is that this domain may as well have been ".xss". Not that it will improve the security of the remainder of the web, but spotting what is certain to be a festering malware fest just by looking at the trailing ".xxx" will be a great time saver.
I really like this new domain. It will make filtering porn somewhat easier for those who need such filters. Business networks, family PCs, etc - all these are going to have one very easy filter rule to apply before all others.
For the same reason, I see a problem where governments think they need to control their citizens however :-(
To make things easier... Could you please, exactly, define YOUR, PERSONAL, interpretation of... "XXX". And, describe exactly how the entire world is expected to meet YOUR, PERSONAL, definitions of what, precisely, we (ALL the rest of the users of the Internet) are supposed to pre-censor (from the, world-wide, public, Internet) for you.
Not sure giving them your money to register some .xxx domains is a particularly effective way to protest against them :)
Unless you registered, say, howtoblock.xxx, and put up a website with lots of clear instructions to help the average parents to block access to anything in the .xxx TLD.
Not that that would help anyone much of course, as all the porn sites already using .com/.net etc aren't going to suddenly move to .xxx domains and drop their old domains!
Though I agree with the benefits of the whole .xxx thing (i.e., parents and businesses being able to filter it, etc), I get a bit of a shiver down my spine when I read that countries are already planning to block all .xxx domains. Seems like we could fast be going down the path of infringing on people's rights.
Why not put all porn on .xxx? Use redirectors from the existing sites and host the actual porn on .xxx, what's wrong with that? The porn industry wins because they have a single go-to tld and the people who don't want porn on their machines win because they have a single no-go-to tld to block.
In my opinion, it's perfectly legitimate for porn to be banned from schools, places of work, children's PCs, publicly owned PCs (ie in a library).
I can see why various people have argued against this, as allowing the intolerant to easily take action, but some of the arguments are just plain silly.
1: There seems to be no reason why a company cannot maintain .xxx and .com sites. Playboy is an obvious brand for doing this, One site for articles that some buy the magazine to read, the other for the pictures.
2: If a company in the porn business can't find $5 per month for a .xxx they're doing something wrong. They likely spend more than that on mayonnaise.
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