.xxx TLD Near Reality

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This is what the COPA Commission said about .xxx:

E. New Top-Level Domain/Zoning

10. Establishment of a gTLD for harmful to minors content
Creation for voluntary use of a new top level domain (e.g., .xxx or .adult) the use of which would be understood to signify that materials on web pages located in such domain (and email coming from such domain) are harmful to minors materials -- and the existence of which would make it easy for browsers or ISPs to filter out all material so located.

Commentary

This method is technically feasible but such a domain does not currently exist. It requires that ICANN establish such a new top-level domain.

This system may be only moderately effective because of questions about whether harmful to minors content sources would locate material exclusively in the .xxx domain. This method also may be inapplicable to chat, email, newsgroups and instant messaging. Use of the domain name system to implement policy raises concerns.

Privacy and First Amendment concerns may be raised by the clear identification of a "red light district" and the stigma involved in being found there, and the concern about a "slippery slope" toward mandatory location in the gTLD.

This approach raises the possibility of adverse effects on law enforcement, because creation of a "red light district" might serve as an attractive nuisance, and because incentives for law enforcement to prosecute unlawful material in the red light district might be reduced.

http://www.copacommission.org/report...eldomain.shtml

So even COPA thought .xxx was a bad idea....