Thursday, June 02, 2005

CBC News: Coming soon: .xxx addresses for porn sites

This sounds like a really great idea for the reasons mentioned in the article. But how much is this really going to change anything? It might allow people to more easily find porn, but when has that ever been a problem? As for helping people block porn, that might be a nice effect, except that there is no requirement to use the new domain, it's just something that is available. And with such a hefty price tag, I don't see much incentive for any but the largest porn sites to use it. There will still be plenty of porn not included in the .xxx domain, which pretty much makes any help this gives people blocking the ones that are in the .xxx domain pretty moot. Also, it seems like most porn sites try to trick you into getting there in the first place, so putting them on a domain that lets you know it's porn wouldn't fit in with that strategy. So, this sounds like a great idea, but I think the results of it will be completely unnoticeable.

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