Domain Name Extension .XXX given final approval

After over a decade or wrangling, a short lived green light that turned to red light, the sponsors of the domain name extension .XXX can now celebrate because the approval to go ahead with the domain name extension that promises to carve out a digital red light district on the worldwide web has finally be given the go ahead by the body responsible for approving domain name extensions; ICANN.

Dot XXX domain name extension was given the initial approval at the last ICANN meeting, the consultation check it promised to carry out after that approval before the final approval is given was completed recently and the registry sponsoring .XXX domain extension ICM Registry is now set to sign the document that will give lice to .XXX domain names.

When the dot XXX was first proposed almost 11 years ago, there was definitely a lot of opposition to it, not only from religious groups who argue that having a .XXX domain legitimise pornography, but some pornographer object to it as well, saying it will degrade their contents.

When the initial approval was given to the domain last year, over 100,000 pre-reservation for the .XXX domain name has been lodged with the sponsoring registry.

It is now clear at the moment whether the domain will help porn sites or work against it as it will be very easy for businesses and other organisation to block the entire .xxx domains name using their firewall or other filtering technology.

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