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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
I think a lot of people see it as a decision that has already been made and any negative comments will be ignored or glossed over.
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That's pretty much it - ever since ICANN opened the door much wider for new TLDs, it seemed inevitable that the possibility of .xxx was going to become a reality. There's only so much that can be done to stop it when the governing domain body wants new extensions and it's a new extension. ICANN could care less about the adult community.
As bad as .xxx would be, I personally think adult has bigger issues to worry about...like tubes, torrents and forums giving all your full-length shit away for free and places like MFC having live feeds of nude models for free. With each passing day, there is less and less a reason to pay for your content, and yes I may be very active here, but my perspective is that of the surfer as I merely sell adult domains vs. being actively involved in adult. Then there's the Epass shit going on, affiliate progs not paying, etc. There are a lot of people facing a lot of issues, and .xxx might seem minor in comparison to some of the others for many of them...you can tell them .xxx will kill their biz, and they'll respond with "well, my biz is already getting killed by X, Y and Z so what's the difference?".
The adult community needs badly to band together to fight most of these issues, and none of the other major problems has caused that to happen, so why would .xxx?