A Separate Domain For Porn? How Original!
from the so-damn-original dept
It's only been discussed for years, and ICANN has been considering it for about a year, but Broadband Reports has discovered that some Maryland lawmaker thinks he came up with the idea for a porn-only top level domain. He's so thrilled with himself that he says people keep telling him: "What took so long? Why didn't anybody think of this before?" Um... they have. And, there's been plenty of discussions about it. Including all of the trouble it would cause, such as how, exactly, do you define porn? Do you force all porn sites to go to this new domain? If so, how do you deal with the ones who have "prime real estate" now and want the equivalent in a porn-only TLD? What about the borderline cases such as artistic porn... or, as they like to say these days, "erotica"? So, while it's an intriguing idea, it's not particularly new and it's not quite as simple as this guy makes it out to be.
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Yifferific
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But seriously
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once again
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reminds me of the RFC...
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A Separate Domain For Porn? How Original!
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better solution
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.sex not only .kids
The key would be to make it DESIRABLE for sites to "self classify" themselves, e.g.
.kids -- Sites that honored reasonable strong non-ponography standards, though I can't define it. The advntage would be that this domain would not be filtered out, but porn sites might have to post a bond to ensure that they did not violate the standards.
.sex -- Sites that would not be held to local pornograpy standards (perhaps not to any) thus the GOVERNMANT would give up their right to censor them, even through the court, but that could be filtered out by isp's based on a specific request from their customer. These sites would have some protection against legal action, but would have to accept simple filtering if an individual wants to so filter.
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It's Not That Difficult, Either
Here's my plan, slightly revised from my previous suggestion. Any adult site would automatically get the corresponding domain name in the .sex or .xxx TLD. If multiple sites had the same second-level domain name, the first registered would get that name in the new TLD; the others would have to come up with new names.
Sites in the old TLDs would have a fixed period of time (6 months?) where they could redirect traffic from the old URL to the new URL, after which the old domain names would be invalidated (with pro-rated credit given for any remaining time).
Of course, unless ICANN formalized those rules, they would only apply in the U.S.; if ICANN made it "law", perhaps it could apply worldwide. Regardless, there would have to be a problem resolution center for non-complying domains, similar to how domain squatting disputes are resolved.
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No Subject Given
You don't like filters, you don't like porn TLD's, you don't like any kind of censorship or restrictions.... what do you like? What do you propose?
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Re: It's Not That Difficult, Either
And the EFF would probably be in their corner with their legal staff. One point is, you don't want legislators holding press conferences and hearings on whether this or that web site ought to be moved to the .sex domain.
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Let us not forget
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Erotica, Sexy Stories: What domain name for them?
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