Proposed introduction of .xxx
Hi, I run several adult web sites and am concerned about the introduction of .xxx All this will achieve is two things. 1) A massive gold rush of registration for .xxx domains, thus benefiting the registry and the lawyers fighting for companies arguing over rights to names and 2) Enable blanket censorship at the ISP level of some adult sites (those that adopt .xxx if passed) Neither of these outcomes serves to protect children from viewing pornography, as in countries such as the eastern european ones porn will still be available on other GTLDS en mass. Maybe the children wont see any porn from US companies - but all that does is hurt the US industry. .XXX is a flawed idea one that I am sure is being proposed for the financial gain of the registries concerned first and foremost. A better solution would be to create a domain such as .kids that would be an optional domain for children's sites so that parents could then set up their browsers only to allow access to .kids sites. It is much easier to have a system that restricts all but .kids than it is to just block .xxx Even if the parents successfully block .xxx sites there are still millions of sites that children shouldn't view on other GTLDs not just porn (rotten.com for example) I hope you consider the points raised when coming to a decision on the matter. Yours in registering a firm "against" vote. Harry Kristien _________________________________________________________________ realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au |