Proposal for porn domain revived
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Plans to create an internet domain for pornographic websites have been resurrected.
The proposal for the .xxx domain was rejected in May 2006 by the overseer of the net's addressing system over fears about how it would be run.
But the proposal has won approval following promises by the domain's backer to actively police any site that signs up to use the .xxx suffix.
The plan has come under fire from pornographers and politicians.
History lesson
The idea of creating a net domain for pornography was first floated in 2001 and attempts to set up the system have had a troubled history.
The proposal was given approval in June 2005 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) which oversees the net's addressing system.
Final approval was scheduled to take place in December 2005 but this was delayed until May 2006 when the proposal was abruptly dropped.
At the time Icann boss Paul Twomey said the decision was not 'politically motivated' and now documents posted on the Icann site show that the decision was taken over worries about how sites signing up to use .xxx would be policed.
Plans to create an internet domain for pornographic websites have been resurrected.The proposal for the .xxx domain was rejected in May 2006 by the overseer of the net's addressing system over fears about how it would be run.
But the proposal has won approval following promises by the domain's backer to actively police any site that signs up to use the .xxx suffix.
The plan has come under fire from pornographers and politicians.
History lesson
The idea of creating a net domain for pornography was first floated in 2001 and attempts to set up the system have had a troubled history.
The proposal was given approval in June 2005 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) which oversees the net's addressing system.
Final approval was scheduled to take place in December 2005 but this was delayed until May 2006 when the proposal was abruptly dropped.
At the time Icann boss Paul Twomey said the decision was not 'politically motivated' and now documents posted on the Icann site show that the decision was taken over worries about how sites signing up to use .xxx would be policed.
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