kane

There is a lot more to making .xxx mandatory than just a couple of people on an board deciding it.

In the US it would have be proposed as a bill and make its way through the house and senate the signed by the president. While it would be easy to say that could happen in a heartbeat we have to remember that many conservative groups were very much against the .xxx because they feel it legitimizes the adult industry. They don't want us to have our own TLD and be legit, they want us put out of business. So chances are they aren't going to be in a hurry to tell us we can do business as usual so long as we stay on a .xxx.

But assume that it does make it through and gets signed into law, it would be immediately challenged and end up in court. A few years back during the COPA days the supreme court ruled against a law that would require sites to verify age because they said that there were adequate filter options out there for those who wanted to block adult content from their homes. Those filtering options have only gotten better in the last few years and now there are even plenty of free options. I can't see the supreme court then deciding that those filters are now not good enough and that all adult sites must now be a .xxx especially when you realize that only about half of the adult sites out there are owned/operated by people in the US so webmasters outside the country will not care nor bother with it.

This is just a money grab that after years of work and millions of dollars spent has actually worked.

Anything could happen. I never say never. But the odds of this ending up as a mandatory use item are very, very low and most likely years away.