How will .xxx work?
 

They will exchange your .com adult domains for .xxx or overnight we will simply have to drop our adult sites and go and hope to reg a good .xxx?

Have they thought about the above if it happens?

i already preregistered gfy.xxx, pleasureads.xxx and brazzers.xxx

They will make you pay $60 / .xxx domain / year.

Say to goodbye to you SE rankings. Say goodbye to your typein/bookmark traffic.

What will happen is everyone will squat .xxx domains, but nobody established on a .com will move a muscle. A complete waste of energy spent on .xxx domains.

I'm out of the loop on this one - did .xxx get approved ?

Where to register .xxx ?

Would this apply to sex toy shops as well?

The ICM and Lawley are promoting the .xxx tld as "an effective way to filter out inappropriate websites". This means that they have plans to lobby to make the use of .xxx mandatory for adult websites because filtering based on the tld can only be "effective" if all adult content on the whole internet is located on sites using .xxx domains.

You know, I know, every webmaster knows that enforcing something like that or even trying to enforce something like that is impossible and will only create problems for everyone involved. However, since we are dealing with politicians that have no clue whatsoever about the technology involved (US senators Max Baucus (D., Montana) and Mark Pryor (D., Arkansas) have already proposed creating a .xxx tld and making it mandatory) and the ICM (an organisation that is looking to make a profit at our expense) we have to take into consideration that something that may now seem to be very unlikely may one day become our worst nightmare.

i got two agents knocking on my door and telling to give them all of my doimans. i sent my two cats at them, agents didnt came back for now ...

No it didn't. But that doesn't stop Lawley from lying to the media and even claiming that the ICM registry is "the ICANN endorsed agency that monitors adult traffic".

The fight is not over!

Say goodbye to your SE rankings on Google.com , say hello to the ever so complicated future of

Adult.Google.com or Google.com/Adult with talks of age verification required to access sites listed in these sections, as well as paid spots similiar to DMOZ when it was still pumping

Really? You are actually asking these questions?

This place is a total tard factory.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I pre-regged a few ,If I get one of the ones I picked my retirement account will fatten up.

Why dont they just make people who want to use a .com for porn have to register the domain for adult puposes and then the SE's tag those .com's as being for porn. They can also release the .xxx and make money out of that aswell.... killed two birds with one stone!

BTW - will rap music go on a .xxx too? What about alcohol site and drug sites?

no $$$ in that :2 cents:

so they will just take all our seo possitions and say good bye find other work to do after years of building your network? where to throw molotov cocktails please?

Why not let people do whatever they want as long as they don't cause damage to other people or their property?

My sites = my property. If Google sends a surfer who's looking for white rabbits to one of my adult sites, who's to blame? Me or Google? If your Garmin or Tomtom gives you the wrong directions, who do you blame? the place you end up in or the Garmin/TomTom?

btw: talking about labeling: a lot of people already use rta/safesurf or similar tags on their sites.

Don't forget the ASACP who will also benefit from this by receiving donations by ICM for every .XXX domain sold.
I feel they are as evil and as low as lawley....they are not concerned about how this will affect this industry and the people who have worked hard to get where they are.

They are more concerned about the millions of dollars they will pocket at the expense of those in this business. As far as I am concerned, this is nothing short of monetary rape and they know it ;)

We must do everything we can to make sure this shit NEVER HAPPENS.

Can you imagine all those years building up networks gone into the toilet in a few secs ?

Exactly! One way to fight this is to comment on every article, blog post etc you can find about the .xxx tld.

If Lawley thinks it's important enough to post there, we should all take a minute of our time and post as well.
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/09/22...-form-letters/
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/10/29...g-in-december/

let the world know that you are "an adult webmaster and don't want the .xxx tld", that you are "a parent and don't believe the .xxx will protect your children", that you are "a small business owner and that the .xxx tld will hurt your business", that you "believe in free speech and that the .xxx will only bring censorship", that you are "an entrepreneur and believe that the .xxx tld will harm free enterprise",....

Thank you for the links ;)

I think we all need to stay on top of this in order to shoot down .XXX, if we don't we will all pay the price in the end.

Like Google needs .xxx to filter adult content...please.

LoL :1orglaugh

is there a definition of adult content?

imagine what a clusterfuck it's gonna be trying to sort the websites by "adult content"

double assfuck penetrations vs. bikini sites vs. tmz-like sites?

people will revolt if they try to pull something like that

:2 cents:

exactly!

true!

Most people simply don't understand the situation or implications. If they don't understand it, they won't care. Hell, people even didn't complain when TSA 'agents' wanted them to go through 'naked picture scanners' at the airports. People didn't complain when they redefined 'acts of terrorism' as 'any act intended to cause harm to any member of society'. etc People don't understand how the internet works (most so called 'webmasters' don't either) and if someone tells them it's for "the good of the children", they will be ok with it...

It's not about that. It's about losing time/effort/money invested in current sites/rankings/typeins/bookmarkers because of the greed of one unethical company (the ICM)

The thing you don't seem to get like many in this idiotic and this debate of those suffering from paranoid delusions about "what could happen" is that no one other the company pushing for .xxx has stated any intention of doing anything to regulate where adult content goes.

Its just a private company.

And why did they do state these intentions and put forth this idea?

Simple, as part of the ICANN application process they have to demonstrate a need for it and community support for it. This was their bullshit reason as a "need" for it. They may as well say its because they want to create a safe haven for unicorns. It doesn't mean anything at all. It certainly doesn't mean the worlds governments are going to step in and require a single, private, USA based company to lord over all adult content online worldwide - which is completely absurd and moronic not to mention NO ONE has ever once put forth any reasonable ideas as to how this might be done or managed...not to mention the simple fact that no one has addressed how all variations of a domain on all tlds (i.e. sex.com, sex.net, sex.org, sex.lv, sex.nu, sex.au, sex.100+ more) are all going to suddenly co-exist on a single .xxx domain.

<meta name="adult" content="bondage">

You really think they're going to yank all the other TLD's with adult content?

* The ICM Registry has already stated that those are their intentions.
* At least 2 US senators have already proposed legislation to do exactly that.

Do I think they will succeed? No.

Do I think they'll keep trying? Yes.

Do I think they'll create a lot of problems trying? Yes.

Does fighting the .xxx proposal cost me money? No

Will the .xxx tld (if created) cost me money? Yes. (even as I am not planning on buying any .xxx domain)

Do you have a link to that or something to back that up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10412765

ICM Registry, which is backing the domain, said .xxx would make it easier to filter out inappropriate content.

...

Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM, welcomed the decision and said it was "great news for those that wish to consume, or avoid, adult content".

The ICM has been making similar statements for a long time now. Several times they've called the .xxx tld "an effective way to filter out adult content".


So either the ICM Registry is lying and they don't want to offer an "effective way to filter out adult content" or they want to make the use of a .xxx domain mandatory, because filtering out adult content content based on the tld can only be effective if all adult content is on sites using a .xxx domain.

Sorry man. I'm exhausted from too many late nights. I thought when i read it that you were saying "ICANN"... my bad.

Everyone gets that a private company is making these claims. They will own .xxx and they have to come up with justifications for creating it as part of the process. NO ONE has EVER given any reasonable explanation as to how those things might actually happen though. Its just not possible.

This shit has been discussed for nearly a decade, search GFY. There is nothing good about .xxx. Even the idiots that think they are going to snag a nice name and retire are wrong, the big boys would never let this happen.

It doesn't even matter though. Once a place exists that you can put all the porn the government will be right in trying to make it happen. What Lawley says is irrelevant, .xxx is fucking trash.

You support .xxx

:disgust

true. the point I was trying to make here: http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showpo...50&postcount=8

I guess we can blacklist all of his sites: http://www.wildg.com/, http://gifster.com/,...

Fuck dot triple x.