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Originally Posted by minicivan
These guys are very long on paranoid conspiracy theories and very short on explanations as to how this would actually work, be implemented effectively globally, be enforced globally, never mind the simple issue of how a private US company is suddenly going to become the worlds porn police and force every porn site on the planet to one single tld - an act which not violates so many international laws and trade agreements that they couldn't even be counted but that has nothing to do with ICANN or any other international legal body. No even has legal jurisdiction or authority to make such a thing happen.
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.XXX is proposed as a "Sponsored top-level domain" (sTLD), which means the .XXX registry will be permitted to enforce various registration and usage rules. This is not some new thing - many other sTLDs, such as .aero, .museum, and .travel, have long enforced various restrictions globally.
See link below for more details about sTLDs ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_top-level_domain
In short, to reiterate, as a sTLD, the ICM .XXX registry will be able to enforce restrictions regarding registration and usage.
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Originally Posted by minicivan
But hey, who cares about the tedious details? Spreading unfounded fears and Irrational paranoia to watch the herd scatter is much more fun.
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It's not irrational at all given human nature and past history.
As far as enforcement, it may not be just governments, but also private corporations, such as payment processors requiring adult sites to brand (ie. no .com landing pages, etc) and operate solely within .XXX.
Anyone doubting that's possible need only look at all the restrictions that payment processors already enforce, such as domains containing various words in them, such as "young", "lolita", "lolicon", etc.
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Originally Posted by minicivan
ICANN's rules for allowing new TLDs have changed dramatically in the time the .xxx insanity started. Everyone here is in deep deep deep denial to believe there won't eventually be .xxx/.sex tld's anyway.
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Don't be so sure of that. .WEB seemed like a sure thing - was even tentatively approved by the IANA back in the day; among the new TLDs proposed by Jon Postel so it had credibility - and yet .WEB has gone nowhere; .web is basically dead...
More info regarding .WEB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.web
While on that topic, .KIDS is another proposed sTLD which, ironically, has many similarities to the proposed .XXX sTLD, that has gone nowhere due to many of the same issues facing .XXX.
There's no doubt many more TLDs are coming, but it won't be anything goes nor will past history will be ignored - some proposed TLDs are damaged goods, likely never to see the light of day - .XXX, .KIDS, and .WEB all fall into that category.
Ron