Phew!
Because "site:*.xxx" is so hard to type one-handed.
ICM Registry, the company behind the forthcoming .xxx domain extension, plans to launch a search engine devoted entirely to porn at search.xxx. The news emerged during a panel discussion at the YNOT Summit 2011, a porn industry trade show in San Francisco late last month (depressingly SFW video at YouTube.) ICM president …
Am I the only one who sees wonderful opportunities here for making money through some sort of anti-scam.
Traditionally the pr0n-mongers tended to try and attract visitors to their .com site by pretending to be other than what they are. Is there a chance here to register e.g. nubileyoungwomen.xxx and advertise it as 'illustrated stories of young women growing up and discovering their true nature as mature women' - but in fact the content is extracts from 'Little Women', 'The Railway Children' and Angela Brazil school stories - but loaded with ads (from Google?) for other porn sites that may be clicked on by dissatisfied punters?
Are there any rules for .xxx that say content MUST be the sort of stuff to make your grannie blush?
May be worth $75 to try it out!
How about the small fry like myself and others who provide community service sites? Are they going to force us off .com? I can't afford the money they're talking about, just to serve the "specialist" community ... becauase I make no money at all from my personal specialist site.
There will be a huge chunk of sites in a "grey area" between porn and ".com friendly" (for want of a better term); e.g. nude art, while not pornographic per se, is often filed alongside the top shelf products.
In short, keeping smut of .com would likely involve a lot of arguments about what constitutes "smut" and I suspect the .com registries will be happy to keep taking your money.
Yes the idea has been bought up occasionally, but there are absolutely no plans to do anything of the kind. It's true that creating the .xxx could be seen as a "first step" towards that but it could also just be one company's nasty little scam. Certainly any attempt to ban porn from .com would be opposed by many many people, and more importantly many corporations with lots and lots of money.
Well, there isn't even a donation link on the site, but if you look me up, plus a choice word or two, you'll find me easily ... and I'm a .co.uk ... I wonder what they'll do to those once the xxx happens?
There are loads of education sites all over the place, so they'd better not muck us up, or they could be putting young childrens lives in danger. The things I did as a kid on my own, before I even knew the word bondage existed ... I might have easily killed myself. There needs to be a resource for kids to refer to ... 'cause the sex shy adults are to damn scared to help them out.
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- so we can find the halfway good stuff, in between the viagra ads and all the other carp.....
and all the sites that just promise, never show, just attack your pc...
But seriously, if you are a straight guy looking for a horny babe, how do you avoid all the weird stuff out there?? - nothing against it, and I bet they would like to find their kink, when all they seem to get is 'boring stuff' .. :p
Why don't these publishers simply behave exactly like cybersquatters? Register the domain that is rightfully yours, and publish a shitload of advertisments on it - leave your content off the .xxx domain, simply use it as a cash cow. It'll look exactly like a cybersquatter owns the domain, and you can continue to publish your content where you always have, keeping control away from potential future infringement by ICM.
Sure, ICM gets your registration dollars - but if enough publishers follow this pattern, they do not get the mass migration of content that will drive publishers to create new sites in the .xxx domain.