.XXX

[lowerloft]

AITA are in talks with the FSC from the US and Eros from Australia regarding the new proposed .XXX domain.

What are your thoughts on this and are you happy to sign up to a .XXX domain for your site?

Let us have your thoughts on this.

Thanks

Jason

[Secretease]

What kind/level of site would be classed as a .XXX site?

[lowerloft]

Mitch

Well that is one of the questions they cannot answer yet. They are not saying people have to sign up for a .XXX but one person is running this and wants you to so they can make a lot of money and this could lead to .XXX sites being easier to block on search engines.

Is this something you would want AITA looking in to for you?

[mybeautifultease]

I'm definitely all for AITA taking this up. .XXX would be, in my opinion, a bad move and the only use it will serve is to further persecute adult content.

[lowerloft]

Cheers Ben, It will also be great to see as many of you at the AITA Xmas meeting and Party on the 15th Dec in Central London and join up to AITA.

[lowerloft]

I thought there would have been more remarks about the .XXX domain or do people in the UK not care?

[videokim]

I don't think many would want .xxx at the end of the their site as it labels it & as said already it will make it easier to block or censor, give it a couple of years of others now willing to try this & we will see the benefits if any.

[andy at handiwork]

As long as governments around the world want to clamp down on pornography on the internet (our own recent change has not removed the people at the Home Office who are actively working on severely censoring and restricting what we in Britain can legally produce, publish and consume), why make it easier for them to persecute you by putting xxx after your site name?

[one eyed jack]

Lowerloft

You'll find a lot of people burying their head in the sand on issues like this here because they dont think it applies to them but the bigger people.

People forget my route into porn was exactly like a lot of other people and this xxx thing affecrts everyone who is doing anyhting remotely adult with sex content on. That is to say, if you have a girl with her pussy out even if its a glam pic this decision will affect you.

As for the persecution and shutting odwn with the xxx connection, they could do it right now on the .coms and simialr others.

If anyhting I wonder if it will impact on any porn conseumer because of the stigma of XXX? It will eaither appear more salacious tothe porn consumer or dreaded by those with guilt and other personal conflicts.

Besides, if it aint broke why fix it and why now? I suspect the people behind the lobbying of this is a cynical ploy to make as much money out of an industry in these cash strapped times.

Time to get off the fence I think!

[Secretease]

Please clarify what the opposition is. If it's all down to someone wanting sites to sign up but sites don't have to - then we'll all say no and get on with things.

So what potential issues are there?