Great article about the people and motives behind .XXX
http://news.com.com/2010-1026-517661...tag=nefd_acpro
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"Under his proposal, submitted last week to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), .xxx domain names would be sold for $70 to $75 each. Child pornography would be verboten, but pretty much anything else would be permissible, Lawley said. "Apart from child pornography, which is completely illegal, we're really not in the content-monitoring business."
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Stuart Lawley is the president of ICM Registry, the ones proposing .XXX
Yes, .XXX is done in the name of stopping child p*rn.. at the super cheap price of webmasters paying $70-$75 per domain
While they say that .XXX is voluntary, there is lobbying being done to Congress to pass a law.. when it's a law, it's mandatory.
Is .XXX really about keeping kids from seeing the "bad" stuff?
According to Lawley from the article:
"Lawley and his partners are in the business to make money. A report from Reuters Business Insight in February 2003 calculated that sex represented two-thirds of all online content revenue in 2001 and that it had ballooned to a $2.5 billion industry since then. Lawley estimates that 25 percent of all Internet search queries are related to sex and that more than a million adult domain names exist. Owning the rights to sell pieces of .xxx real estate, he concluded, would be a perfect way to make money off consumers' insatiable appetite for online raunch and ribaldry. "
(translation note: Consumers = webmasters)
Draw your own conclusions.
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