"<i>(CNN) -- It's a big day for the porn industry.<br>On Friday, ICANN, the not-for-profit corporation that coordinates the internet's naming system, voted to allow the application of the controversial ".xxx" top-level domain name for sites that display adult content.<br>
The domain, which would need further approval before going live on the internet, would be applied to adult entertainment sites just as ".com" is now."<br>The .xxx internet suffix, which was first proposed six years ago by ICM Registry, a group that sells domain names, "will provide a place online for adult entertainment providers and their service providers who want to be part of our voluntary self regulatory community," according to that company's news release.<br>
Adopting .xxx will be optional. However, some tech blogs speculate a push to make the domain mandatory for adult-only sites.<br>ICM Registry has already taken 110,000 pre-reservations for the domain, which could be available in early 2011, if not sooner, its news release states.</i>"<br>
<br>----<br><br>There's a little more at <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/25/xxx.domain/index.html?iref=NS1&fbid=p-sNdXdIvmv">http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/25/xxx.domain/index.html?iref=NS1&fbid=p-sNdXdIvmv</a><br>
Of course if it's made mandatory for porn sites to use the xxx top-level domain, it will be tough to judge whether a site is porn or not.<br>I can already see a queue of enthusiastic men volunteering to selflessly serve the public by acting as the judge on <b>that</b> committee...<br>
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