ICANN delays decision on pornography domain
.xxx must wait. Yet again
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ICANN has delayed its ruling on the proposed .xxx internet porn domain until this summer.
Today, at its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the ICANN board voted to push a decision to its next get-together in Brussels this June, while giving its CEO and chief counsel two weeks to prepare recommendations on how to proceed with the .xxx proposal. These recommendations will then be open to comment for 45 days, the AP reports.
In 2005, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the net's overseeing body - approved a longstanding proposal for a top-level domain dedicated to pornography. But after opposition from various governments - including the US, natch - it went on to reject the proposal on three separate occasions.
The last rejection came in 2007, but in recent weeks, an independent panel of judges ruled that the organization was wrong to do so. The 2007 rejection was "not consistent with the application of neutral, objective, and fair documented policy," the panel said.
The ICANN board is not obliged to follow the panel's decision, and in a blog post following the decision, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom made a point of saying that it was not unanimous and that there was ample public opposition to the .xxx proposal.
Under the proposal, porn sites would not be required to use the .xxx domain, and if they did use it, they could continue use other domains as well. The top level porn domain was first proposed by ICM Registry LLC in 2000, ®
COMMENTS
You named the group incorrectly.
They're not the moral majority. Amongst the developed world, they're the hypocritical majority and the moral minority. Most people like porn. Most people like sex. Most people just aren't willing to publicly admit it for fear of being ostracized as perverts.
Behind closed doors when nobody's looking, the guys proposing strict anti-porn regulation are busy taking a strap-on up the arse from a dominatrix in leather.
Don't be fooled. It's just about appearances. It's trendy to seem prudish, at least amongst the U.S.
Paris because at least she wasn't afraid of doing something that felt good.
Why object?
Are they afraid that having a top level domain will legitimise porn? Frankly my view is that having a .xxx domain makes parental control easier, not all sites will use .xxx but then not all porn on TV is on the playboy channel. It allows you to safely cordon off a subset of the internet if you so wish, without fear of blocking anything harmless.
Or to put it another way:
Banning under-18s from sex shops won't stop them giggling over the sunday sport in their local newsagent, but at least they won't be able to off with the latest issue of "knockers knackers and smackers" or whatever the hell they sell. It will make things that much more difficult, and you can't prevent a determined teen boy from finding porn (trust me), you can only make it not as worth the effort in the hope they'll get bored and go drool over the latest Tomb Raider game instead.
Re: Good idea...
if there was universal agreement on what constitutes porn. There clearly isn't, so there clearly isn't an objective definition of what ought to go into .xxx.
DNS is not a legal classification system, so it shouldn't be used as one. OTOH, so many people (and governments) seem to want it to become such a thing that perhaps it ought to become one, with non-ccTLDs being deleted (except for one kept around for internationally recognised organisations) and everyone forced to declare what legal jurisdiction their web-site is subject to.
Back on the first hand, you can imagine how likely *that* proposal is to gain ICANN's approval, so instead let's all just repeat after me: DNS is not a legal classification system, so it shouldn't be used as one.
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