Saturday, March 19, 2011

ICANN APPROVES .XXX DOMAIN


The controversial step to approve .xxx domain names has today been taken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), paving the way for a whole slew of new addresses suffixed by the famous triplicate x.

Opposition to it was proffered by both conservative groups opposed to pornography and adult entertainment companies fearing they'd be more easily compartmentalized and potentially blocked by overzealous governments. Moreover, every popular adult website at present will pretty much be forced to buy its .xxx version, which, for an industry famous for its frugality, will be an understandably tough pill to swallow.

A further meeting is scheduled by ICANN for June 20th to discuss opening up all possible domain name suffixes to registration, pending the validation of a set of guidelines for approval. That's looking quite likely to be passed too, as the AFP sagely notes that there's a celebratory party scheduled for two days after the event. URLs are about to get a lot more varied, it seems

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