2010/07/12

ICANN finally approved .xxx top level domain

In April 2006, I wrote on my blog casting doubt on ICANN's non-sensible decision of not allowing .xxx top level domain for porn sites.   ICANN has recently announced the approval.

With an estimated 370 million adult websites on the Internet, porn websites certainly deserve their own top level domain just like .com, .net or .org.   The benefit is that adult sites not suitable for children can be filtered very easily.  I must say the new management of ICANN is very open-minded, effective and efficient.  Just look at the recent progress of introduction of new gTLDs, IDNs, IDN for ccTLDs and DNSSEC signing of the root zone.

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