Has anyone ever gone looking for hot spicy pictures of Richard Branson? On second thoughts, don’t answer that. An Australian has lost the rights to the richardbranson.xxx domain to Richard Branson himself, although Branson is unlikely to even touch the domain.
If you’re looking to enter the nascent world of online pornography, today is your day, stud — porn domains are on sale to the public, the BBC reports.
Yes, universities are snapping up .XXX Domains left and right. But no, they’re not aspiring to be future AVN award winners. Instead, schools like Missouri and Washington University are buying up domains like missouri.xxx and washu.xxx to protect their names.
We knew there’d be trouble once ICANN approved the use of .XXX domain suffixes. India will block all URLs ending in .XXX, and plenty more are expected to follow suit. This is exactly why the pornstars didn’t want the domain to be approved! [TechSpot via TechRadar]
ICANN, the de facto parent of domain names, has disregarded the advice of its Government Advisory Committee and approved the use of .XXX domains, which has caused turmoil among established adult entertainment brands over the cost of repurchasing domains. [Xbiz]
Icann has finally approved .xxx domain names. Starting sometime in 2011, the Internet will be a far sexier, far more hardcore place to frequent.
After several years of discussion, pornographic content has been awarded its own, top-level domain: XXX. And it couldn’t be more timely, as the moniker “XXX” only faded out of use just a few years before the web took off. (I kid! It’s a good idea that should make filters that much more effective.) [PCWorld]
