www.literotica.xxx

[blazemycock]

ICANN recently approved the use of a new top-level domain (TLD) for adult material on the internet. The idea being it might be simpler to filter porn at workplaces and schools.

I was wondering what everybody's opinion on this was since it could potentially lead to a 3rd party deciding what constitutes adult material. There is an argument to be made that this is simply another way to force porn companies to regsiter another domain and pay another domain fee. It also opens up another domain to squatters that may register the domain name first and sell it back to the company.

Thoughts? Would any authors want to see their stories on .xxx or the more innocuous .com?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/25/the-internet-is-for-xxx-top-level-domain-gets-initial-approval/

 

[Stella_Omega]

This is the brainchild of some domain squatter. Someone is poised to register literotica.xxx and hold it for ransom.

 

[Liar]

I wonder what XXX.XXX might be worth...

 

[Dianthus]

I actually support the concept of identifying porn sites with a domain designation...kind of a truth in advertising, making an informed choice, 'knowing what you are getting when you click on that' way, like looking for that magazine way up on the top shelf used to be.

It would make blocking at work or exercising parental control easier. Also, easier to erase from the history of a shared computer!

One of my concerns is who decides what gets the .xxx designation? At the moment, it's kind of 'I don't know how to define porn but I know it when I see it' and that definition is different for different people.

Is the .xxx designation leading to the further 'ghetto-ization' of sexuality? Will stores selling anything sex-related be sent to this new domain? Do stores selling bras and lingerie get a .com for commercial while stores selling crotchless panties and pasties get a .xxx? What about sex-ed sites or columns discussing sexual health?

Though I'm hardly a prolific contributor to the site, I have no problems with what I wrote being on a site with a .xxx.

As for poachers scooping up domain names, I think the ethical thing to do would be offer .xxx names to the owners of current .com names.

 

[michchick98]

ICANN recently approved the use of a new top-level domain (TLD) for adult material on the internet. The idea being it might be simpler to filter porn at workplaces and schools.

I was wondering what everybody's opinion on this was since it could potentially lead to a 3rd party deciding what constitutes adult material. There is an argument to be made that this is simply another way to force porn companies to regsiter another domain and pay another domain fee. It also opens up another domain to squatters that may register the domain name first and sell it back to the company.

Thoughts? Would any authors want to see their stories on .xxx or the more innocuous .com?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/25/the-internet-is-for-xxx-top-level-domain-gets-initial-approval/

As far as my stories here, go, I don't think it would matter, but for my personal website, I'd be worried.....well, not worried, but I would wonder. I promote my e-books there and while I use only PG excerpts, I still deem it as an "adult" site due to what I'm promoting. I currently have a .com redirect right now.

Which would bring to mind another question, would sites like excessica.com or phaze.com, both very popular in the world of erotic fiction, have to change from the .com to .xxx domain name?

I guess it wouldn't really matter in the long run, as long as the sites were still accessible.

 

[Boota]

If I could choose to switch to a .xxx I would do it, but I don't like the idea of a third party determining what constitues .xxx. I also think they should allow existing sites to automatically own the domain name as before, just with the .xxx suffix, to keep the doman vultures from doing as Stella spoke of.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Personally I think its a lot of smoke and mirrors, and most likely someone is going to make a crap load of money somewhere, and none of it noble.

.com's are commercial, .net are rarely networks, the domain is mostly meaningless. gov and mil, ok those are still regulated and have weight, and only colleges get edu but honestly it could be .kma (kiss my ass) and it wouldn't mean squat. Granted I have a ton of bookmarks that end in .uk .it .ru and others so I am jaded to anything meaning anything.

I do think its a gesture to the thick skulled dim witted 1950 politicians who still make laws and don't know the difference between url, html and lol. How those bozos are entrusted with the law of the land baffles the hell out of me.

 

[blazemycock]

Personally I think its a lot of smoke and mirrors, and most likely someone is going to make a crap load of money somewhere, and none of it noble.

.com's are commercial, .net are rarely networks, the domain is mostly meaningless. gov and mil, ok those are still regulated and have weight, and only colleges get edu but honestly it could be .kma (kiss my ass) and it wouldn't mean squat. Granted I have a ton of bookmarks that end in .uk .it .ru and others so I am jaded to anything meaning anything.

I do think its a gesture to the thick skulled dim witted 1950 politicians who still make laws and don't know the difference between url, html and lol. How those bozos are entrusted with the law of the land baffles the hell out of me.

Well I've actually seen some chatter to that sentiment. It may not be regulated at all who has to or doesn't have to use that TLD. In theory I could build a perfectly harmless site and call it fungamesforkids.xxx, I just might end up under a lot of legal scrutiny.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I keep archives of erotic fiction and a few images, at two dot com domains, and I do not plan on changing them to xxx domains. Not ever. And can you imagine the fury of the legit corporations when they find their company name in front of .xxx? Oh I can just see it; walmart.xxx Democrats.xxx sarahpalin.xxx yahoo.xxx

Ohhh yeah. Not going to be good, folks.

 

[TE999]

Di had some good points in her post. Who would be the final arbiter in 'assigning' .xxx designations anyway? Some old FCC mossbacks in Washington? 9 1/2 out of 10 porn sites are pretty explictly titled anyway, it makes them easy to find.

This strikes me as a form of censorship.