Domain Registration Related News
Web Site Pushes .xxx Top-level Domain
June 2004
Child protection advocate Mary Conyers' Web
site Protecteverychild.org is pushing the movement
to create a separate .xxx domain for Web sites
that feature adult content. Protecteverychild.org,
with members in 39 US states as well as in Puerto
Rico, Zambia, Israel, China, Canada, and
Australia, has received grassroots support from a
number of child advocacy groups as well as the US
Internet Crime Task Force. Adult entertainment
giant Vivid Video has also endorsed the idea.
The Web site includes a page featuring links to
lawmakers, the White House, media outlets and the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, the body that oversees the domain name
system. The .xxx top-level domain has already been
proposed to ICANN, which is slated to decide its
fate in September.
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