ICANN Revives .XXX TLD Proposal
Here we go again...
An AP newswire article by Anick Jesdanun, via The Mercury News, reports that:
The Internet's key oversight agency has revived a proposal it earlier rejected to create an online red-light district, after adding stronger provisions to prohibit child pornography and require labeling of Web sites with sexually explicit materials.More here.
The use of the proposed ".xxx" domain name would remain voluntary, but any porn sites that choose to use it instead of the more popular ".com" would be subject to the new terms issued late Friday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The idea of a separate ".xxx" domain has generated significant opposition from conservative groups and even some pornography Web sites.
Props to Bret Fausett, who originally alerted us to ICANN's intention to reconsider this proposal here.
Background here, here, here, here, here, and here.
posted by Fergie @ 1/06/2007 10:58:00 AM
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