My feelings towards .xxx
Hello, I am an adult webmaster and I'm writing you to let you know that I am strongly opposed the .xxx domain name. While it sounds that the ICM Registry has good intensions, it is a clearly monetary driven proposal. The propesed ICM domain ending has very minimal support in the adult webmaster community - the responsile part of our community fully supports self regulation, but we don't want to be regulated by outside companies, with no relations to our community. Because quite frankly they have limited knowledge on how things work and when you mix two industries who do not know eachother and do not want to be with eachother, major problems always arise. This has been proved time and time in history. I also feel that .xxx won't be a success also because of the surprisingly high cost ($75 per domain) of the proposed .xxx domains. It will not help parents to protect their children, if anything, it will give them a false security. The majority of adult webmasters won't abandon their current .com and ..net domains to move to .xxx - in fact .xxx domains will be mostly registered by domain speculators and by companies wanting to protect their trademarks. I understand the meaning of it and in theory may have a slim chance of working but in reality it will suffer and not be liked. There are plently less drastic, but more effective ways of dealing with the problems that the world face and that raising pornography domains to new level will be insuffeciant, ineffective and a shambles. Overall, .xxx won't accomplish anything and it's in my opinion a bad proposal, with no support from me and I think I can fairly say, with no support at all from the vast majority of adult webmasters. Thankyou for your time, and I hope you look at both sides of the arguments fairly and this proposal gets the proper time spent on it it deserves. Yours Scott Dulne. |