Do Porn sites need a new top-level domain?
June 28th, 2010 - 9:07 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattWashington, Jun 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Internet sites have been grouped into several domains. For example education sites are grouped under one domain ‘edu’.
Websites that offer adult content may soon be grouped under the domain name “xxx”. The site will not be using the .com domain name again.
The organization that is responsible for giving domain names is called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The ICANN rejected a proposal for the domain classification three years back. They had rejected the proposal three years back, because Peter Dengate Thrush who is the chairman of ICANN’s board of directors said that, “There was doubt about the size and strength of the community. And the commitment to the process.”
But the organization announced on Friday, that they would start the registration of the domain name. However ICANN say there are several steps to be completed before the xxx domain is finally available. But the organization promises that the domain name would be available in 6 to 8 months time.
But the industry players of the adult websites are divided over the classification. Currently, there are about six million adult websites. They all currently use the .com domain, but when the classification would finally be in place then not less than two million of the sites would move to the xxx domain.
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