Comment Problems with ".xxx" (Score 1) 574
The "com" or "net" that you're referring to aren't just added to the URL, they're how your site is found. There's actually an implied . at the end of every URL, so http://slashdot.org/ is actually http://slashdot.org./ and then it is somewhat similar to the way you would use the directories on your computer, but in the opposite direction, and some more details. So if you're looking for http://slashdot.org/ it first goes to ".", which is overall, then finds "org" within ".", then finds "slashdot" within "org" and that's how you get here. If there are subdomains, like "yro.slashdot.org" or "politics.slashdot.org", then it keeps going down the line. There's a few more things in there, but they don't really matter for the sake of this discussion.
As for creating an ".xxx" in place of ".com" for all porn sites, even if it were possible, there's no way to gaurantee that all porn sites will be in the ".xxx" domain, or that all sites in ".xxx" are even porn.
".tv" is a good example. ".tv" is supposed to belong to a country in the Pacific. However a few years ago when it was first found out that ".tv" was the countries domain, television shows wanted to use the names in ".tv" because it would be perfect for them because they are TV shows. You could enforce other sites not getting into it with strict regulations I suppose, but then you'd have to define what is pornography,which could eventually lead to what pornagrophy is allowed, etc etc.
Also, there is then no way to make sure that a porn site is not outside of ".xxx", in fact, if you make regulations on ".xxx" then it'd be easier to make a new porn site just a ".com" instead of a ".xxx".
As for creating an ".xxx" in place of ".com" for all porn sites, even if it were possible, there's no way to gaurantee that all porn sites will be in the ".xxx" domain, or that all sites in ".xxx" are even porn.
".tv" is a good example. ".tv" is supposed to belong to a country in the Pacific. However a few years ago when it was first found out that ".tv" was the countries domain, television shows wanted to use the names in ".tv" because it would be perfect for them because they are TV shows. You could enforce other sites not getting into it with strict regulations I suppose, but then you'd have to define what is pornography,which could eventually lead to what pornagrophy is allowed, etc etc.
Also, there is then no way to make sure that a porn site is not outside of ".xxx", in fact, if you make regulations on ".xxx" then it'd be easier to make a new porn site just a ".com" instead of a ".xxx".
