Creation of ".xxx" Domain Name Delayed--Long Awaited Internet Cleanup Postponed

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) delayed a vote needed to establish a virtual red-light district and requiring sex sites to move over to a ".xxx" domain name.

Some are worried that to do so would legitimize porn sites and increase web flow traffic to those sites.

They are ignoring the fact that the Internet could use a much-needed cleanup and make it easier for parents and others to get their Internet filtering systems to work as they were intended and block out the filth that their kids accidentally find.

Right now, filters are about 45-50% effective at stopping access to pornographic web sites.

Fears that creating a .xxx domain name will legitimize porn are unfounded. Porn is already online; why not put them all under one domain type and then allow parents and schools to block access to ALL of them and not just SOME of them?

Here's why: a kid doing a Google web search on tossed salad for a homework recipe assignment will find the sex-related terminology at the very top of the list in an unassuming web site name with the domain .com at the end of it. Some filters will catch it, some definitely will not.

I will not post the link to that site here. Go find it yourself. If you can't, you'd better believe that little Johnny can. And will. So before naked people start showing up on the screen doing various things in front of little Johnny or little Susie, we ought to change that .com to a .xxx

And web traffic to .xxx sites will not increase. It will stay the same in the long-run, though there will be an increase in traffic at first as people scramble to find their favorite porn sites that they already frequent.

.com web sites should not be allowed to redirect to .xxx web sites or provide links either.

So ICANN should get it's butt into gear and governments should either support this vote or butt out. Here's the current status of this vote and how various governments are interfering.

The sooner this happens, the sooner concerned parents will be able to control what their kids see while they're surfing. This should be something that the family focus groups also support.