.xxx to be a reality soon? (opens in new tab)

Of course the question is what sites get the definition of 'adult'. There are nude photos on Flickr after all...

And even if in the US porn isn't forced into the .xxx tld by law, for other countries they may jump on it much faster.

Then of course there is the issue of a slippery slope. What other content could be forced onto certain tlds by law?

Moving all adult sites to the .xxx tld might help cut down on the false positives from content filters. But it sure could turn into a legislative nightmare.

In practice that could go wrong in a number of way, but I don't see a problem with it in principle.

It would certainly make the job of censors and puritans everywhere much easier.

Hey it puts all the bad stuff in one place right...

Objections to a "xxx" TLD seem to fall into one of two categories: That there is no way to decide which sites should be given a "xxx" domain, and that there is no way to enforce a "xxx" domain. As far as I know, there is no current plan to legislate the "xxx" domain so it would seem that it wouldn't matter. Even as an opt-in for self categorization, it can only help to make the purpose of a site more clear. Even if not universally used, it makes it a little easier to both find and avoid pornography. Chances are that what gets put under the "xxx" domain will eventually be decided organically. Personally, I think that it's likely that businesses who's explicit purpose is selling sexual content will begin to use it and websites which contain pornography only incidentally will likely avoid it.

"some already existing TLDs were just absurd"

My favorite is .um, for U.S. minor outlying islands, population 300. It was, um, discontinued.

But why .xxx instead of .porn or .sex? If you want a TLD jsut for porn, then you might as well call it that.