ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has [a href="vny!://msnbc.msn.com/id/12098039/"]once again scrapped[/a] the plan for a new internet "domain" .xxx for pornography. Supporters of the .xxx address suffix argued that it would have helped to protect children and others from accidental exposure to internet pornography, particularly if stronger filters were used to screen out explicit material from other internet domains.
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year to put off introducing a new ".xxx" domain for pornography on the internet. That drew international complaints that the US exercised too much power over the internet and added to a European-backed movement to shift control of the online medium to an international group.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Oh yeah, we NEED the ".xxx" domain. I mean, "www.barely-legal-loose-sluts.xxx" is obviously a porn site, whereas "www.barely-legal-loose-sluts.com" makes you wonder what it really is....
