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[RawAlex]

Tony, you got it. There are two possible courses of action in the next 12 - 24 months. Either politicians in various countries will start mandating that adult / porn sites must be on .XXX (which appears would be able to pass the 1st amendment, in the same manner as zoning bylaws), or Visa and Mastercard will push for all adult to be on .XXX domains only.

In the US, it is very likely that some ISPs will decline to provide DNS lookups for .xxx, and potentially even peering providers may refuse routes from .xxx domains. Outside of the US, it is very likely that goverments (example in Germany) would force ISPs to not provide .XXX access.

The net effect over time is that porn gets squeezed into a ghetto, and then the various authorities start building walls around the ghetto. The final step is when they flood the ghetto by forcing ISPs to "get adult certification" for users before allowing them access to .XXX domains.

This of course only happens if nobody sues ICANN in the next 90 days.

[sunfunbill]

What I want to know is, if things get bad and adult sites are forced to use .xxx, what about adult affiliate sites like what I have?

Say you have a porn blog with post about the newest galleries from a paysite and so on. Would those have to use.xxx?

What if you used no nude pictures on your post? Could you then say your not really an adult site? Hell, you see naked girls on facebook and youtube, so why would those not have to use .xxx?

The limits of what is and is not an adult site will be fought over for a long time. Paysites of course are pretty clear, they are porn sites.

But before they can impose laws about who has to use.xxx, they have to make it clear just what a site can and cannot have on them.

I'd say we all have a year or so. Time to get those mainstream sites going!