FW: .sex or .porn Proposal

["Robert Young" <rhyoung@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Robert Young" <rhyoung@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: stld-rfp-comments@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: .sex or .porn Proposal
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:19:37 -0500
>
>
> I have had numerous discussions with friends in the computing community 
> regarding the problem of pornography in the Internet.  I stress that I am 
> by no means a right-wing uber-moralist; I do not have a problem with 
> pornography on the Internet per se.  However, I think any survey of people 
> would show that there is a general and long-running frustration with the 
> invasive commingling of pornographic and "junk" sites with relevant sites 
> when browsing or searching the Internet for information rather than sexual 
> visual stimulation.  One of the possible solutions that has arisen in these 
> discussions is to segregate ALL pornographic sites to their own TLD with an 
> address suffix of .sex or .porn.
>
> I do not believe that this would infringe on 1st Ammendment rights.  
> Further, this would allow not only search engines to be more effective but 
> filtration for concerned parents as well.  This also has implications for 
> spam, spyware, malware, and other invasive forms of forward advertising, 
> which are most often (for now) in many pornographic sites.  Fines from 
> violating the domain segregation could pay for retroactive conversions and 
> further enforcement.  Finally, I believe that there is more than a 
> sufficient number of sites for pornography to have its own domain.
>
> Again, I do not wish to imply that pornography in and of itself does not 
> belong on the Internet nor do I wish to make any claim of morality.  I am 
> proposing .sex/.porn as a way for the Internet to become more useful to all 
> of us when we are searching for information (such as for research) rather 
> than facials.  I believe that all of the legitimate arguments for .mobi, 
> .edu, .gov, .net, and .com apply to .sex/.porn as well.  I believe that I 
> would be far from a single satisfied web-user if ICANN accepted this 
> proposal.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rob Young