Originally Posted by kane

To me that argument has been around since day one of the internet. It used to be a whole lot worse. For a while you almost couldn't search for anything without some kind of porn showing up because people would keyword stuff their pages with all kinds of crazy stuff.

Thinking that Joe the average guy is going to be searching for something in Google, accidentally come across a porn pic and start a campaign to get all porn moved to .xxx to me is just fear mongering. They have made laws already that state if you are knowingly misleading people to porn with the name of your site/domain you could go down for it. It isn't your fault if Google fucks up and puts a pic of interracial anal in their image search for something not-related to that.

To me this is the perfect moment for this industry to do what it always complains about. Everyone says we need to band together and form a lobby and stand as one etc, but it never happens. Here we have the perfect chance. If nobody buys a .xxx domain it will either just go away, or ICM will put them all up live with holding pages, but since nobody is actively promoting them there will be no traffic and they will be of no value. Right now we could all just turn our backs on it and show that the industry really doesn't support it and we won't use it. The odds of a law actually being passed and surviving any challenges that forced us to use it are so slim they aren't worth worrying about and if it were to happen, .xxx will still be there then to buy.

But, of course, we won't do that. This industry is always in a race to the bottom so somebody at that conference will say something about .xxx being an insurance policy then there will be some news about someone using one or selling one for a big profit and before you know it everyone will be buying them. That is what this industry does. We have never seen a cliff that we couldn't wait to jump off of.

Sorry for the rant