Thread: adult domain name plan back with ICANN again .xxx just wont go away

A plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult websites will be resurrected three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
The net's governing body Icann will reconsider the .xxx scheme on 12 March.
Icann had previously given the domain the go ahead in 2005, but reversed the decision two years later amidst protests from US conservative groups.
An independent review recently concluded that decision was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered.
Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has now confirmed to BBC News that its board will discuss the plan at its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya and could decide to back the proposals.
"If the contract is signed, we could be selling names by the end of the year," said Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM Registry, which put forward the plans for .xxx and would sell the domain names.



source: bbc

It will be a manic rush for these domain names, a modern gold rush. :)

I'm all for this for two reasons.

Firstly, speaking as a father I think its important that we can generate a division between safe internet 'zones' and those we want to block from our childrens eyes. It's important that people can't stumble on these sites because they happened to be searching for something completely unrelated. Who'd have thought bagpiping wasn't just a scottish musical technique...

Secondly, its gives me the excuse as an IT bod to be able to say to the staff who 'accidentally clicked on they **** links' that to get on that page, they have to had searched for it! Now stop BS'ing me and tell me the site...!

Money talks........ registrars and ICANN are hungry for new money streams.