I think public pressure could resurrect this.
Businesses should demand it too. Want to stop people from viewing porn at work? Block the .xxx addresses. It could be a boon for parents, as well. Just block all the .xxx sites.
"Businesses should demand it too. Want to stop people from viewing porn at work? Block the .xxx addresses. It could be a boon for parents, as well. Just block all the .xxx sites."
The existing .com sex domains have a value of tens (if not hundreds) of billions of dollars. Would the government just seize those assets witout compensation? Or would we like to pay them the billions for taking their property? There is no good way to do this.
Thank goodness, this is an idiotic idea.
1) How do you identify a porn site?
2)Who will do the identification?
3)Will there be an appeal process?
4)How much will this all cost?
5)Who will manage the .xxx tld (top level domain)? there's a LOT of money in that.
6)What if 2 companies own porn sites, say porn.org and porn.com. Which one gets porn.xxx? What does the other get? How about the owner of porn.net? porn.biz? porn.info?
7) Some have suggested a 5 yr embargo on the .com names. Others have pointed out that the .com names are worth a lot to their owners and that this would be a takings situation. Have you considered the further economic costs to the .COM domain registrars? This would by bureaucratic fiat steal millions of domain names which represent recurring revenue... for 5 years. Who will compensate the registrars?
I'm sure that these are among the reasons they killed it.
We already have filters on our browsers for porn contend. the family filters do work. Amen.
And how do you handle the sites in far away countries that refuse to stay on XXX?