ICANN Approves .XXX Porn Domain

A new top-level porn domain, XXX (e.g., http://pornexample.xxx), was approved today by ICANN, the non-profit organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and approval of new top-level domains like .com, .org, and so on. This doesn’t mean that all porn sites will leave their current cushy URLs for XXX, but it’ll be an easy block for concerned parents.

Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

The proposal was made under ICANN’s rules for “sponsored” TLDs, through which domains have been created by interest groups including the aeronautical industry (dot-aero) and the cooperative movement (dot-coop).

ICM Registry, the company that proposed the dot-XXX domain, welcomed the vote.

“It’s been a long time coming,” ICM Chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement, adding that he is “excited” by the move.

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3 Responses to “ICANN Approves .XXX Porn Domain”

isis says:

July 6, 2010 at 10:51 am

Stewart Lawley is nothing but a parasite. He doesn’t care about the children or protecting them from porn. He doesn’t care about the adult industry–he tells anyone who will listen that he’s not part of it. The only thing that Stewart Lawley cares about is MONEY. He is driven by pure, unadulterated GREED. All the rest is just a smoke screen.

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