Porn domain officially rejected
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 29 March 2007
The key Internet oversight agency decided not to give adult websites their own ".xxx" domain for the third time.
The rejection comes on the back of complaints from both the porn industry and religious groups. The adult entertainment groups were worried that their businesses would be censored into a coma and the religious groups thought it would encourage the adult industry.
The idea was first pushed by ICM Registry which handles Web-site registrations with the aim of overseeing sites that want to have the ".xxx" Internet suffix. According to Associated Press, ICM is considering suing ICANN.
With beibg forced by law, adult website operators will only use .xxx as an extra domain; they'd be stupid to give up their (well-)established current domains. However, a law wouldn't help either: it might force US based webmasters to comply, but there's still the rest of the world. And that's not as small as the US sometimes thinks.