ICANN approves new .xxx top-level domain
Posted by Matthew on Friday June 3, 2005 @06:04PM
from the better-late-than-never dept.
Matthew writes: ICANN today approved the new .xxx domain specifically designated for Internet Porn.
“With this move, we’re creating a partition on the Internet for purveyors of adult content who agree to abide by a voluntarily enforced code.”
“The code specifically states that models actually appear to be as claimed—i.e., hot, young, voluptuous, or whatever; that browser’s won’t be hijacked by numerous popup windows or taken to unexpected places; that the money shots won’t be blurred out in sample images, and that users won’t get trapped in link circles going from page to page.”
“With a TLD dedicated to porn, it will be trivial to make browser plugins that prevent your cache and history from getting “stained up” with content within the .xxx namespace without having to use tell-tale cache and history clearing.”
“We felt that the quality of online porn sites was too variable within the .com namespace, so we’ve decided to do something about it. The new .xxx TLD is all about quality. Oh yeah, and it’s easy to block content.”
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I do not believe this is suitable for this site!
I think you should be more aware of the slurs you write so casually!
Oh oops! wrong article hang on I'll go back to the previous article and …
well I would have completed my statement but I have already pressed the Back button!
Comment by Me — June 4, 2005 @ 12:09 am
Subject:Re: How?
What? What?
Comment by Mailman — June 4, 2005 @ 7:07 am
Subject:Re: Apple + Intel
I thought the bigger news was that Apple and Intel:
As seen on News.com TalkBack, Usenet, and Slashdot:
Pretty kewel! And complementary:
Intel Inside/Apple Outside
Blue Men Dancing/Other Bright Silhouettes Dancing
Wonder what the pundits will call this duo? Aptel? Inpple? Intelapple? AI? OSx86?
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Related links:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/04/0238235&tid=118&tid=3&tid=137
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/browse_frm/thread/e98d5c8e9ed36492/b8aa86396e0c85e1#b8aa86396e0c85e1
http://news.com.com/5208-1006-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=7155&messageID=48247&start=-1
http://www.geektimes.com/michael/techno/computing/hardware/products/apple/macintosh/misc/project-star-trek.html
Unrelated link:
http://www.shawnevans.com/
Blatant plug:
CharlesJo.com
Comment by Charles Jo — June 4, 2005 @ 7:37 am
Subject:Re: How?
Stop trying to steal our army of geeks!
Comment by Matthew — June 6, 2005 @ 12:09 pm