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News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' board on Wednesday voted nine to five against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a dot-xxx domain suffix for pornography sites.
[11 May 2006]
News The bill suggests, but does not require, that dot-xxx serve as the domain name ending. Dogged by similar complaints from an unlikely coalition of conservative family groups and the pornography industry, recent proposals for the dot-xxx domain have...
[20 Mar 2006]
News The proposal to create a dot-xxx domain was due to get final approval at an Icann board meeting in Vancouver. This is the second time Icann has pushed back plans to approve dot-xxx, after a delay in September.
[02 Dec 2005]
News The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of dot-xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield. A new resolution introduced in the US Senate...
[19 Oct 2005]
News Other recent new entrants to the top level domain roster include dot-mobi, a top level domain for content accessed over a mobile device and much-debated dot-xxx, for 'adult content'. The first websites using the dot-travel domain name have...
[04 Oct 2005]
News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (Icann), which oversees domain names, said on Friday.
[19 Sep 2005]
News A final decision on the fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx domain, which was intended to be reserved for online pornography, will not happen until September. That decision follows last-minute opposition to the creation of dot-xxx from the...
[17 Aug 2005]
News The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a dot-xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for internet pornography. Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department...
[16 Aug 2005]
News The non-profit organisation responsible for internet addresses has approved dot-xxx domains, a move that reverses the group's earlier position and heads off a potential political spat with conservative US politicians.
[02 Jun 2005]
News The web addresses, which cost $25 a year, appear like top level domains but really have two other domain levels attached to them which are hidden in the browser, so dot-shop is really dot-shop-dot-new-dot-net.
[13 Mar 2001]
Comment Well, that looks like it's all about to end because new.net has set up a whole stack of very uninternet-style domains like dot-shop, dot-xxx, dot-ltd and dot-game. Who'd have thought that the GNP of Tuvalu, a tiny pacific kingdom reliant almost...
[07 Mar 2001]
News But the company has already been approached by a number of European companies and domain registrars and claims European users can expect full access to names such as dot-mp3, dot-shop and dot-xxx by the end of the year.
[07 Mar 2001]
News Capitalising on the disappointment of the seven new top-level domain names announced last year by governing body Icann, New.net is registering names such as dot-kids, dot-mp3, dot-shop and dot-xxx. The domains on offer from New.net are: dot-chat...
[06 Mar 2001]
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