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>> Is the .xxx domain voluntary for porn sites? Seems to me that having .xxx domains will make it easy to filter them out, I don’t think that porn site operators are going to be to thrilled about that, why would they want to use the .xxx domain in the first place?

> There is no requirement whatsoever that porn sites be restricted to .xxx domains. As such, most porn sites will continue on unchanged at their present .com addresses.

Correct, all the existing ".com" porn sites will continue unchanged.

The ORIGINAL (misguided) proposal for a ".xxx" domain was to REQUIRE porn sites to move over to it, abandoning their ".com" sites. They could still own the ".com" domain, but they couldn't post material on the ".com" site other than a redirect to the ".xxx" site, which could then be filtered.

In theory this could allow for content filtering to "protect the children". Anti-porn advocates were thrilled and lined up to support the proposal. But of course, the proposal immediately ran into the predictable trouble on the definition of "porn" even within the USA, and the larger fact that the internet is international and countries do not agree AT ALL on what is and is not porn. Do you want your viewing controlled by an Islamic cleric?

So the proposal had to be modified to drop the REQUIREMENT and merely make ".xxx" voluntary. So to speak.

Then it became manifestly clear that this ".xxx" domain proposal was in reality a monetary shakedown on EVERY EXISTING DOMAIN, porn and non-porn, every business and individual domain, pure and simple. See my comment #29 above for the story on that aspect.

Then it became manifestly clear that this ".xxx" domain proposal was in reality a monetary shakedown on EVERY EXISTING DOMAIN, porn and non-porn, every business and individual domain, pure and simple.

This is the type of scenario that makes one go, "Damn! Why didn't I think of that!"

And it was all for the children... LOL!