People can now register a domain ending in .xxx
I’ve been following this story for a couple of years, and originally, I thought it was going to be a brilliant thing because there were talks that any adult themed site would in fact have to use the xxx TLD – which I thought, number one, was going to be brilliant for fighting against Porn, in that it would be extremely easy to block, and number two, was slightly fair to the porn industry in that the people behind it recognized there was no way it was going to get rid of porn altogether, but at least they could control it.
Now, as life has gone on, we’ve discovered that .xxx is in fact a voluntary service, and all of the ‘big wigs’ that have spent millions on branding will no doubt stick with their .com’s and go on with life.
Sure, they’ll register their .xxx to save their branding, but they’ll likely just forward it to the .com and move on with life.
So the question is, does .xxx really help the people who aren’t in favor of porn? Not really.
Sure, it’s easy to block all .xxx domains, but in order for that to be effective, then people actually have to use it. And for people to actually use it, then they have to be on side with it, and it doesn’t appear that the porn industry is in favor of it. In fact, now there’s a whole new world of possibilities for people to come up with domain names of adult material – and you know they will.
If anything, I almost feel that this is HELPING the porn industry – which from what I can tell, wasn’t the intention in the first place at all.
