About time: .xxx for adult sites.

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Calm down people.
It still isn't official.
It has been authorised once before until the Conservatives in the US decided to put a stop to it.
There are going to be som many rules and regulations.
Then add in a Sunrise period to allow current adult sites to get the same with .xxx and once more the best ones will be gone before most people can register.
Looking at the registry's site it's not going to be open for signup, existing adult sites will be allowed one and other people will be allowed to register them to prevent .xxx versions of their domains.
 

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This will only be a good idea if porn sites can ONLY use xxx domain. Otherwise it's just another domain for them to buy up and it will change nothing.
 

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Yea I can't see how they are going to force adult sites to use .xxx only. So it looks like it'll just be a complete waste of time and give adult sites more domains to spam.
 
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Why is this possibly a good idea? What could it ever achieve apart from allowing people to hide their porn habit by claiming it can't be a porn site they've been on because it's not .xxx?
 

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Why is this possibly a good idea? What could it ever achieve apart from allowing people to hide their porn habit by claiming it can't be a porn site they've been on because it's not .xxx?

Hiding your porn habit became easy when browsers introduced private browsing.
 
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It'll be easier for parents to block access for their kids. Simply disallow anything with .xxx

Except there will still be those million porn websites that are on .com and .net.

that's the idea, that all adult sites must be on .xxx and that only adult sites will be on .xxx

I don't think it's a good thing though.

Not enforceable and will never happen.

.xxx is pointless and won't happen.
 
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There are about 100,000 pre registrations so you can all forget snapping up those domains!!!

Why would any prospective porn baron registers a .xxx domain knowing that people will block it?
 
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