ICANN Finally Rejects '.xxx' Domain Name

I thought this was a good idea so that it would be easier to block all web addresses with .xxx for children accessing the internet. Also I was hoping to buy some domain names and make some money selling them. I read an article the other day that there is an entire industry based on this and it's extremely lucrative. Although, I'm sure there were a lot of people with the same idea waiting.

Plus, this would solve the problem of old ladies and kids doing reports from finding out that whitehouse.com is a porn site, not the official site to find out about President Bush. Oops.

ICANN Finally Rejects '.xxx' Domain Name

NEW YORK ?- Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet.

The decision from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reverses its preliminary approval last June to create a ".xxx" domain name for voluntary use by the adult entertainment industry.

ICANN had postponed making a final decision in August after the U.S. government stepped in just days before a scheduled meeting to underscore objections it had received, an intervention that had led some ICANN critics to question the organization's independence.

ICANN Rejects '.xxx' Domain name