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Having recently completed a 40 page paper on ICANN, of
which 10 pages were dedicated to the .xxx TLD, I must say that this is a great
idea. It was a great idea in the last set of proposals as well, but ICANN chose
not to accept .xxx at that time. No, it will not be a "silver bullet" to cure
all of the problems, but it is a great first step. The adult industry needs this
TLD to keep government regulation at bay. Look what has happened since the Super
Bowl. It is foolish to think that the government is not going to consider
regulating content on the Internet once again. We narrowly avoided the
Communications Decency Act, and it is in the best interests of everyone that the
Internet and adult industry prove to the government that they can solve their
own problems without government legislation.
Once the .xxx TLD is in place, it should be required
that all adult sites currently existing in .com, .net or any other TLD move
their site to .xxx. Of course, their remaining lease time should be
grandfathered over to .xxx to help encourage the move. Yes, policing the moves
will be difficult and resource consuming, but it is worth the effort. Just think
about how much easier content filtering will become. Configure browsers,
proxies, and other devices to block the .xxx domain. Now you have gone a long
way to protecting your children and workplace environment.
I have only one question: What happens to organizations
that registered a .xxx domain through New.net. Granted, it is a competitive
system that is not affiliated with the DNS, but do they have a right to their
domain? I have not heard any mention about how that situation will be
handled.
There are a lot of problems out there. Minors viewing
pornography, child pornography and all of the legal entanglements that go with a
global resource such as the Internet. This is a critical first step towards a
better future. Please ICANN, support .xxx this time around.
Aaron Sanders
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Aaron
D. Sanders
A+ Network+ MCP Windows 98
Second year
student in the Master of Science in Information Technology program at Rochester
Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems - Clarion
University of Pennsylvania
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