TAKEPLACE: ICANN FINALLY APPROVES THE XXX RED LIGHT DISTRICT TLD

Saturday, March 19, 2011

ICANN FINALLY APPROVES THE XXX RED LIGHT DISTRICT TLD

Can you believe it! There’s porn on the Internet!

Cue Avenue Q’s The Internet is for Porn.

What really happened was that after a decade-long fight, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), at the close of its 40th public meeting in San Francisco finally approved the .XXX top-level domain
(TLD http://www.icmregistry.com/news/welcomeapproval.php). According to a PC Magazine report, Peter Dengate Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer and chairman of ICANN, announced today, March 18th, that ICANN had finally approved this red-light district TLD. PRACTICALTECHNOLOGY

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