The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington 302
netrover writes "CircleID is reporting on the latest developments on the .XXX top-level domain as the related ICANN meeting is currently underway in Welligton, New Zealand. From the article: 'The .XXX TLD was widely expected to receive its final approval at the ICANN's last meeting held in Vancouver about 4 months earlier but the discussion was unexpectedly delayed as the organization and governments requested more time to review the merits of setting up such a domain.' But as it has been reported, it appears the discussions at ICANN Wellington are in limbo once again."
Re:Is this necessary? (Score:3, Informative)
There is plenty, plenty of freely available pornography on the Internet. Enough to last the addict his whole life and result in chronic pain from over-masturbation. The first place pornography spread on the Internet, the alt.binaries.* hierarchy on Usenet, has always been free. Unless you just discovered the Internet yesterday, I fail to understand how you don't already know this.
Re:If TLD were enforced like they are supposed to (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Is this necessary? (Score:3, Informative)
But what it really means is one thing: money. You run the big "joebob.com" porn site? (made that up, no idea what it is). Well now you have two choices. You can either buy "joebob.xxx" (how much? Lets say a few hundred bucks) or you can not buy it. If you DON'T buy it then your competitor ("pornking.net" or whatever) can buy "joebob.xxx" and make it point to HIS site. That way if someone tries to go to "joebob.xxx" mistakenly, you lose the business and he gets it.
Now multiply that (and yeah, it is practically extortion) by the thousands of large porn sites that would have to buy that new domain (and renew it every year, it's extortion on an installment plan!). Add in a few of the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of smaller sites who may or may not pay.
What's that add up to? Money. LOTS of money.
Things would have been better if someone had tried to force the categories in the start (personal sites go into .people, commercial into .com, ISPs and phone companies into .net, non-profits into .org, porn into .xxx), despite all the problems that would have ensued. But we're not there. The top level domain a web site is basically meaningless.
This is another chance to sell "sex.whatever", "porn.whatever", "hotteens.whatever", etc again with the fun (and lucrative) bidding wars that will happen over those names.
There may be other benefits (block all of .xxx for your company and your chances of blocking something important are basically 0.0, would make porn slightly easier to find), but it all comes down to the money.
Re:Is this necessary? (Score:3, Informative)
Want to see something blocked by your ISP? (Score:1, Informative)
There are only two ways your ISP can block your access. 1) by the domain name 2) by IP address.
In first method is what ISPs normally use. That is, when you request DNS resolution for particular domain name, they don't give you the IP address for the domain name. So you cannot access it.
Second method is too expensive to implement by ISPs, ie, check all packets pass thru the ISP for known IP addresses of sites they want to block.
Tomahawk Desktop is probably the first desktop Operating System comes with its own DNS server. Therefore, Tomahawk Desktop, does not use your ISP's DNS server. It does its own DNS resolution. Its too expensive to block the Tomahawk Desktop
Re:Cost of enforcement? (Score:3, Informative)
You didn't really check then did you because this is false.
" Suppose I own hotsweatymonkeysex.com (which I don't, unfortunately). Could they force me to give up my domain name without compensation (other than a free
No.
"Given the logistics of it, I could only see this working on a voluntary basis, which is to say that it wouldn't."
It IS voluntary. If people get used to
Re:Is this necessary? (Score:2, Informative)
1.) Have a period of time where current domain owners can lay claim to the the SLD in the
2.) After the period of time to work out existing domain name owners and trademark owners, then other people will be opened up to the
3.) Require all new domain owners agree that sexual content that fits the definition of pornography to register a
4.) Existing non-XXX TLD's that host pornographic content before the changes can continue to operate, however if they have the
5.) Existing non-XXX TLD's that host pornographic content will be required, as a term of renewal to purchase a
The main advantage to this is that filters could universally block the
The people that seem to be fighting the
People are approaching this problem from the idea this is a free speech issue, when it's not always. There are economic considerations. Companies can people routelinely for looking at pornography. It cost companies lost productivity and bandwidth. Not to mention the crap that gets bundled with porn because someone is so engroused in the porn that he installs whatever program wants to install itself. Universities and schools deal with the loss of bandwidth. Economically, there are reasons to move it to a seperate section of the internet. Just because the moral-right seems to be the ones yelling for it, doesn't mean that there isn't an economic insentive. If you can keep a good employee that does good work from looking at porn and thereby he doesn't get fired, then it is worth it to a company. But if that same employee is looking at porn and wasting company resources and he has to get canned, then it cost compa
Plagarized article by a troll. (Score:5, Informative)
The copier may be trying to raise his karma. See his posting history. [slashdot.org]
Re:No more new TLDs! (Score:2, Informative)
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There does seem to be a few companies using
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Very few
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Of course:
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