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Yeah you're right.

The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.

Gotta love that last part...left to the president...yeah, I'll trust him with that, not!

.XXX has been a bit of a fiasco from the start. The only organisation to support it were ICM Registry, who would stand to make a huge amount of money from administering it. The adult entertainment industry has long hated the idea because they are afraid that they will be forced into a .xxx ghetto, the first stage towards a de-facto ban. The conservative pressure groups in the US hated the idea for just the opposite reason - they feared that giving pornography a place would be akin to endorseing it. The only reason it's finally been approved is that ICM used every legal trick in the book to force ICANN's hand.

It's not really going to make much difference, though. It isn't going to mean more porn as the conservatives fear, because the supply of porn is governed by demand, not available domains. It isn't going to make blocking porn suddenly easy, because although many of the more respectable sites will move to .xxx the shadier ones are going to stay in .com and the country-codes to avoid regulation. The only thing .xxx achieves is shoveling money into ICM's pockets.

@suricouraven Thanks for the review... I knew it was a stupid idea, thanks for explaining why again.. maybe everyone will just ignore it and it will go away? I would think the religious conservatives would want all porn forced into that domain, so they can block it all in one fell swoop..... if they think that would happen, they're smoking something.

The religious conservatives opposed .xxx because, although they would love to see it blocked, they would hate to see it just regulated. Regulating something means it is permitted, even endorsed within the regulations. They would be horrified at the idea of ICANN (Or an organisation it apoints) being asked to seperate the law-abiding porn from the rest, because to them, no porn should be law-abiding at all.

It really comes down to the pure profit motive. ICM is expecting to sell domains for $60, and starting with 500,000 on first offering as every major porn company buys to prevent a competitor getting it (In addition to a lot of non-porn companies grabbing their trademarks to prevent some satirist putting it to use in an embarassing way). That's thirty million dollars just for *starting* the domain - and with renewal fees, it's the business that just keeps raking it in. Minimal overheads, no raw materials. Just pure service-industry fees, and lots of them. This is why ICM was willing to spend ten years in repeated rejected applications and appeals: They knew that .xxx, once approved, would be a real cash-cow. Once things get going, assuming a renewal every three years, they are looking at ten or twenty million dollars every year of income and no expenses other than a couple of servers and a small staff.

In the words of the ICM CEO Stuart Lawley: "This was always going to be a very lucrative arrangement."

Craig has commented on this news (again): http://www.xxxchurch.com/getinvolved/index/blog/thexxxdebatemytake.html

@becominwhole10 Wonder what the president's criteria will be? An actual emergency? Ending discussion?

A porn site that is already designated a .com is not going to give up the space. If anything, they'll want both domains--.com and .xxx.

OTOH, the .xxx might make the site easier to block with the filters.

@Gidzmo Also, non-porn sites may want to buy a .xxx domain so that a porn site can't have it and their sites be confused with each other.

I don't imagine site confusion will be an issue. A .xxx site is obviously for porn. I still think many non-porn companies will want to claim their xxx, but for different reasons - to preclude it's use for satire.

It's all just more money for ICM. They and they alone support .xxx.

I suppose the porn sites wouldn't want some Christian to reverse rule 34 their website... like make an Ozzie and Harriet version of Peter North and company.

The .xxx TLD is in the news again.