Porn domain on pause again…
Yesterday, the Big Brother of the Internet ICANN approved a new domain for the Catalan language (don’t ask me) and, yet again, they have delayed their decision on creating a .xxx pornography domain.
Both anti-porn advocates and porn sites have objected to the new domain for very different reasons, but one thing is for certain: the idea of paying ten times more for a .xxx domain than a .com domain is ridiculous… especially if it would mean that it would be easier to block people from those .xxx sites. What I would like to know is what exactly are ICANN’s reasons for charging such an astronomical price for a .xxx domain when porn sites are still allowed to dwell on .com domains for $6/year?
Perhaps ICANN should follow SugarBank’s example and establish a .kids domain to filter children from anything outside their perfect bubbles.
Gees… who cares about a little bit of sex when children are seeing floating corpses in New Orleans on the 6 o’clock news?
September 16th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
First- I don’t see why a higher price is necessary for the .xxx what is the justification for that
Second- I also don’t see why there shouldn’t be a .xxx I would much rather know that if I am going to a site that claims to be about (lets use your example) Bush, it is about President Bush. Why not have a .xxx
September 16th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
They’re so expensive because there’s so bloody much money in porn. They want a (cough) piece of the action (pun intended).
Personally, I think the “reaction” to the .xxx domain reveals just how out of touch those who are reacting to it are with reality. Porn’s been around for oh, at least a few thousand years. The entertainment was live before we had paper or film. Proof? Go check out the Kama Sutra.
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/nektar/kma/main.htm
It’s still live in Paris. Take the “Paris by Night” tour, tickets available from the travel agent on the Champs-Elysees. (A friend did, innocently mistaking it for a bus tour of monuments by night, and had quite a wild evening).
As for the six o’clock news, we’ve got Law and Order, Law and Order Sexual Victims Unit, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Sex in the City (on TNN), Nip/Tuck, and let’s not forget HBO, Showtime, the Playboy Channel, and our ever-present Comcast “OnDemand” adult features, always available, on demand. Not to mention hotel pay-per view xxx material. Available to anyone smart enough to use the remote control, all the broadcast stuff in prime time.
Complaining? No. Just amazed at the hypocricy of it all. And, after living in France, I do miss all those topless wemmin in commercials on prime time television. And on advertising posters in the streets and metros… but I digress
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LEB
September 16th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Or… dare I think it… www.bush.xxx? Oh. My. Gosh.
Sorry. It’s friday. I get really weird on fridays.
“I don’t do horror films” - James Garner, when asked if he’d ever do a nude scene.
September 16th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Mol bé, m’agrada que haiga dominios pa’l catala… pero estic d’accord que la industria del porno també deberia tindra seu prop dominio.
(He he he… sorry, y catalan is a little rusty… WHen I’m not sure what the correct Catalan word is, I either put a Spanish word, or spell a Spanish word so it sorta sounds Catalan… But I digress…)
Basically, I just said that it’s good that there’s a Catalan domain now (differentiates Catalan pages from Spanish pages), however, I am totally for a .xxx domain. It shouldn’t be a question of morality, or money… it should be a question of for once having some sort of standards on the internet everyone could follow.
The internet is just a big ol’ mish mash of everyone doing their own thing. We need structure people, STRUCTURE!!!!
November 9th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
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December 2nd, 2005 at 4:15 pm
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April 9th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.