ICANN Creating Virtual Red-Light District
A red-light district tentatively cleared for construction on the Internet the xxx domain is being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up its act.
Who would have thought it…dedicated domains for porn sites.
A distinct online sector for the salacious, one with rules aimed at forbidding trickery, will reduce the chances of Internet users accidentally stumbling on porn sites, they argue. If only it were so simple.
Zoning in cyberspace has always been a daunting proposition, and participation in the porn domain will be voluntary. Critics wonder why xxx got the OK at all when so many other proposals sit unaddressed, some for years.
There is no excuse now folks, the chances of tripping over a porn site by accident will be severely reduced which aint a bad thing.
But how do you get existing sites to give up their dot com domain names this Yahoo News report explains.
