Associated Press reported, ‘A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a “.xxx” domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers’.

The .xxx domain is back on the table again during a meeting of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week in Kenya. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)  reconsider the ‘.xxx’ top-level domain for porn sites during a meeting in Kenya this week, nearly three years after it was shot down and nine years after it was first introduced as a way to identify pornography sites and  confine them to their own Internet red-light district.

When ‘.xxx’ top level domain will set in action then, Parents would be able to use the system to help block access to porn sites, though because its use would be voluntary, the “.xxx” suffix wouldn’t keep such content entirely away from minors.

Religious and other Anti-porn group activists, meanwhile, worry that the creation of a virtual red-light district would serve as an endorsement of the adult-entertainment industry, as “.xxx” would be sitting alongside other suffixes such as “.com” for commercial sites and “.edu” for schools.

The .xxx domain was first proposed in 2001 and approved in 2005 for exclusive (but voluntary) use by the adult entertainment industry. The idea was to provide a place for porn sites online that would be explicitly obvious from the domain, which would not only help consenting adults find the sites, it would also help parents and corporations better block access to them.

But what’s your view on ‘.xxx’ top-level domain for porn sites ? One thing we’re sure of, however, is that the anti-porn crusaders will come back out of the woodwork if .xxx is approved again.

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