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"simple really... just give all the porn/smut domain names the new .xxx or .sex ext and then block any new companies from from using those existing names with a .com ext. anything new is fair game."

So what if a corporation doesn't want to give up its .com domain - for example playboy.com may be worth $50 million or more? And many of the domains are owned by companies around the world and they are also copyrighted? Sex.com was valued at $65 million.

Does the government just seize those assets without compensation or do taxpayers pay billions for the compensation? You would also have to prohibit sites like FreeRepublic.com from being able to set their own nudity standards? I don't Jim is gonna want the government oversight.

This is why the idea will not work even if it sounds attractive.

if icann changes it, that's it. it's not the "government" doing it.

PlayBoy would just become PlayBoy.sex and NOBODY else could register PlayBoy.com... it would be retired and any intellectual property rights would transfer to PlayBoy.sex.

if they don't like it, icann can just trun off their number till they do. no theft involved.

You would also have to prohibit sites like FreeRepublic.com from being able to set their own nudity standards? I don't Jim is gonna want the government oversight.

Some of the Gun Porn threads have to come close to crossing some line somewhere!