The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the top-level domain .xxx for pornography websites. ICANN made the announcement at the annual meeting in San Francisco. The idea for these top-level domains have been around for almost a decade and it was approved briefly in 2005. Adult websites won’t be forced to use the .xxx domain names. It will make it easier to filter and block adult websites from kids. [BusinessInsider]
ICANN Approves .XXX Domain
Categories: ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The introduction of "xxx" will have no effect on Adult Dotcom websites: they will remain unchanged. There is a possibility that some Adult content may be duplicated at "xxx", so perhaps some people will get to see the same thing twice.
All ICANN has done is to encourage the public to vote with their feet in order to find new ways of making the most of their Web experience. The result is that Internet users everywhere can now create an unlimited range of unique and previously unseen Non-ICANN domains and TLDs totally free.
Sites such as Dashworlds.com already provide brand new Dashcom (not Dotcom) domain names. Dashcoms are addresses in format "business-com", "paris-fashion", "social-network" and of course any "xxx" extension you might desire. Totally outside the realm and control of ICANN, Internet users can create any domain in any language, instantly and at no cost.
With users and members in over 90 countries worldwide, resolution is via an APP; although new ISP Links are available to make this unnecessary (ISP Links that are also available to ICANN).