XXX Porn Domains Approved; L.A.-Based Adult Industry Not Happy

By Dennis Romero Fri., Mar. 18 2011 at 12:01 PM

Categories: Porn

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It's coming.

Good news for porn hounds. Maybe. You now have your very own domain. Kind of how the White House has .gov. You have .xxx.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who control such things, gave a green light to triple-X this week.

It looks like it will be a virtual red-light district for you adult-content fans. Sort of like what Amsterdam is for cannabis connoisseurs. Except that ...

... the L.A.-based porn industry isn't happy. Some of their folks were protesting outside the ICANN board meeting in San Francisco today.

Porn!

You see, the adult business thinks that .xxx will ghettoize porn online and might even inspire governments to try to push such content there.

And with an such an identifiable suffix, government, school, library and even mom-and-dad filters would more easily be able to filter out smut. (Bad for business).

No, the porn kings are happy with .com, .net, et. al.

Diane Duke, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, the industry's lobbying arm, stated:

... They (ICANN"s board members) have disregarded overwhelming outpouring of opposition from the adult entertainment industry - the supposed sponsorship community - dismissing the interests of free speech on the Internet.

Interestingly, Fox News (surprise) opines that .xxx could increase your exposure to smut (not that there's anything wrong with that) because the porn biz will still be able to hang on to it's .com domains (for now):

... This expansion does not mean that pornographers would be taken out of their regular ".com" domains. So now they can lure your children with 'playwithcarly.com' and 'playwithcarly.xxx.'

So lock up your laptops. Or not.

Tags:

adult video, domain, Free Speech Coalition, ICANN, porn, xxx

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We wish the .xxx domain extension was available for porn years ago, as we don't want kids or prudes on porn sites. No though with established domains it is difficult to transfer over.

Nicholas Sequeira

I like the Fox News dig, it adds class! Though their statement on the matter is mind boggling.

Eddie Vroom

Whatever you do, don't name your mall stationary kiosk Pen Island to begin with...

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I don't get it though...are they being forced out of their .com domains and into the .xxx?

Nicholas Sequeira

No. They just made .xxx available. Anything else is pure speculation.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

L.A. based Adult Industry not happy? That's a joke. Figure it out, Folks. One of the big draw backs to Porn, is that it is a bag of sleaze. Most people, don't want to be seen anywhere near it. They don't want their friends, bosses, sweethearts, or children to know they have an interest. Worst of all, a lot of young studs, imagining themselves to be HAWT, can not reconcile that they need more than a snap of the fingers. On line, everything is private. They probably even have a cheap laptop for just that purpose. On line cuts into the bottom line. On line they shoot amateur moap on a soap in some backwater county, making typical porn pay look princely, Off line, you can pay cash, and cash spends much faster. On line, it's credit cards only. You will know you have a problem if your bill gives you a flash burn. Those charges show up. The Adult Entertainment Industry does not want anything to show up. That makes for prudence, the last thing they need. On line, there is anonymity, and they need a relatively high sleaze factor, just to drive up the price. This isn't about free speech. It about the all mighty dollar- banked, spent, and generally wanked.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet