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quantaMar 13th 2010 11:06AM
While I applaud the intent of the .xxx initiative, I question the implementation. How are they going to enforce the use of this TLD? As it is, domains are a free-for-all: companies own .ORGs, private individuals own .COMs and most country TLDs are open to be owned by non-citizens.
How are they going to make organizations abandon their established, lucrative .COM URLs? If compliance will be the same as using, say, the PICS rating standard, the effectiveness will be lost.
Then there's the philosophical question: who gets to define what type of content is X-rated?
(Unverified)Mar 13th 2010 1:05PM
You bring up some good points but I dont think the plan is to force them to use .xxx addees.
Im not a parent yet, but I can only imagine that its not easy to block out all sorts of content that most would not want their children exposed to. I would favor such an effort to someone force porn sites to use .xxx addresses but again, im not sure how youd enforce it. Its far too easy to come across some of this stuff by accident. I believe its the parents responsibility to oversee their children and monitor what they are doing, but at the same time, like I said, its easy to come across certain content by accident.
Im not for filtering and banning of content, as I believe in freedom of speech. But I do believe something should be put in place to further aid in the protection of kids or even adults, who shouldnt or dont want to see certain content. I guess there is paid software you can use, but Im not sure how well it does the job. I guess when I do have kids, Ill be looking in to it.
recyclistMar 13th 2010 1:20PM
@ ChuckJ - blocking objectionable content from one's kids is dead simple as long as they aren't yet sophisticated enough to change the DNS settings on your router (or use a proxy or use the neighbor's connection) - OpenDNS pretty much takes care of it.
Apocalyptic 0n3Mar 13th 2010 9:26PM
Instead of enforcing, why not reward and encourage? Talk to the big search engines (Google, Bing, Ask, etc.) and get them to add an adult search that will search only .xxx sites. Sure, it would be possible with operators, but it would make it easier to do. This gives incentive to use it, and even switch to it. You could even promote switching to the .xxx by offering deals to sites like "switch to .xxx, keep .com redirect for a year and get half off domain price" or something like that. It would obviously be a one time deal to be taken advantage of at the very beginning and then site operators could be given the option to keep the .com address as a redirect to a kid friendly site or just ICANN or something like that.