We had a representive speak at the Trade Ass in London.
The guy did not seem to be a full speed at what their plans really were with confused answers to whether content would be controlled...
In his opening speech he attacked porn for being full of viruses, spyware pop ups etc...
XXX would clean this up and make it safe for the consumer.
Was he proposing to control and monitor all content on XXX domains? He did not know.
The high cost of the domain $60 wholesale was to cover the cost of policing the area.
so yes ?
Who would decide what was legal? and how is it possible when laws are national and the web international? Again he was clueless.
How would any of this make sense if adult sites can still exist on any other com,org,info etc..
In fact it would be the easist to shut off his sites, everyone will know to ban XXX.
If it is just a busines man taking common property and scaring people into buying what they don't need or want, it will fail in the same way as org, net or info are not needed.
Only if powerful states on an international level try to force the movement of 100,000 of domains into XXX will it be really worrying. I see a lot of practical problems for the lawmakers to do this...I don't think we should help them by buying XXX....
Just buying XXX domains at such I high price will give them a large warchest to make the problems worse.
