.xxx Domain Names Rejected

Rarely will you see the adult entertainment industry and religious groups in relative agreement, but strong lobbying by both camps influenced today’s decision by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to reject creating .xxx domains for online pornography sites. The adult entertainment industry feared that having .xxx domains would make it easier for governments censor and control content, while religious groups believed that creating such domains would greatly increase the amount of graphic sexual content on the internet. Internet politics too makes strange bedfellows.

posted by Mike Pellegrino on 30 March 2007
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