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The sky is not yet falling.
The sky is not yet falling.
The sky is not yet falling.
I'll wait to see how this develops before becoming overly concerned. Sure, I might be inclined pick up the .xxx extension for a major site (and redirect it to the .com), but at $60/year they can kiss my hairy white ass too. The implications of *required* .xxx extensions are much farther reaching than you would think at first glance, and would be a huge burden on all the registrars and hosts as well. Plus, there would have to be sort of regulatory body (with a fuck of a lot more than 7 or 8 people) to review, enforce, blah, blah, blah.
This is one more thing to keep an eye on for sure, but seeing that they're pricing the domains at $60 and in the same breath saying that "some will choose to keep using their .coms" I'm going to just sit back and keep an eye on this. Of course, they'll see a fuckload of sales for highly targeted keywords that have all the standard tlds registered already, such as sex, pussy, voyeur, etc. This will create a huge influx in revenue for ICANN, which I'm sure is their whole point in going along with it.
People who want to protect their kids already have filtering software installed, and you're not going to prevent access to .xxx sites without filtering software, so the net effect of this will be exactly dick in regards to "protecting" anyone.
The sky is not yet falling.
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