pride5356: I know you weren't calling for patrols or evictions. This post is just
a stream of consciousness, extending from your post, but not really commenting on
it. Nor is it addressing you in particular; it is addressing the non-specific
reader.)
___________________________________________________________Well, let's
see . . .
If we opened up a .sex or a .xxx, who patrols the .com, .net, .biz,
.web, .info, .shop to make sure there are no pornographic sites left in those TLDs?
Who can possibly police all the millions of domain names registered? Who can return
to the millions of domain names registered the NEXT day to see that there hasn't
been content change?
What do you do with a porn site in .com after .sex is introduced?
Evict it? Heck, we can't (and shouldn't) evict a profit site developed in .org. What
do you do with a business site in .sex or .art for that matter?
This whole thing
is a mess, but only insofar as anal retentiveness is concerned. Personally, I think
that any unrestricted TLD HAS to be generic by nature. Therefore, .biz should be
for Business in a broad sense, not B2B--because that charter could never be met in
a realistic sense. And in the end, what if someone puts a homepage up on .biz that
includes no business? I say, leave them the hell alone. What are we going to do?
Require they at least sell lemonade on their site?
The kind of patroling that
some people will want, is frightening. They would have everyone evicted. And all
for what? To make sure the socks are in the sock drawer, the shirts in the shirt
draw, and pants in the pants drawer--without any overlap?
Personally, I don't want
an Internet Gestapo--which is what ICANN and their cronnies, WIPO, have become.
.....
And regarding pornography. . . there are always arguments over whether something
is pornography or art. Some people debate this rabidly.
I can just see the argument
taken to the Internet with the respective .sex and .art TLDs.