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Plans to create an internet domain for pornographic websites have been resurrected.
The proposal for the .xxx domain was rejected in May 2006 by the overseer of the net's addressing system over fears about how it would be run.
But the proposal has won approval following promises by the domain's backer to actively police any site that signs up to use the .xxx suffix.
The plan has come under fire from pornographers and politicians.
The idea of creating a net domain for pornography was first floated in 2001 and attempts to set up the system have had a troubled history.
The proposal was given approval in June 2005 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) which oversees the net's addressing system.
Final approval was scheduled to take place in December 2005 but this was delayed until May 2006 when the proposal was abruptly dropped. For info about the drop, see here:
I remember discussing the pros and cons of it on the forums back in may; and how say Apple would have to register apple.xxx to prevent abuse.
But... Without our 13 year old perverted children those porn sites aren't going to stay up for long. Too easy for parents to block .xxx. Besides, most ISP's will have an autolock on it methinks. So this is the end of porn sites methinks. Time for technology to start advancing again.
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