The ICM Registry of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has recently opened up registration of .XXX domain names to General Availability status. Domain names are specific unique identifiers of individual websites on the internet. General availability means that anyone can register and own any domain name. And, sometimes, anyone does.
Cybersquatters are people and companies who buy up domain names in the hope of selling them later for a large profit. Imagine how much money a celebrity or company would spend to block a pornographic website bearing their name. Imagine www.Disney.xxx. That is why the Disney company snapped up the domain name before anyone else could. This is defensive registration of the domain name to prevent what amounts to legal extortion, or worse, an actual pornographic website bearing the iconic name.
Universities have begun to pro-actively buy up domain names. The University of Kansas wisely has bought the domain www.kugirls.com and many others. Other universities which have bought .xxx domains include Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and Missouri. Many companies are doing the same thing. It might be wise for well-known churches and ministries to consider.
One very good thing about the .xxx suffix is that it can be used to filter out or block known pornographic websites from search engine results. ICANN also has a proposed suffix .KIDS which would be for use by websites designed specifically for children.
"The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide.
Cybersquatters are people and companies who buy up domain names in the hope of selling them later for a large profit. Imagine how much money a celebrity or company would spend to block a pornographic website bearing their name. Imagine www.Disney.xxx. That is why the Disney company snapped up the domain name before anyone else could. This is defensive registration of the domain name to prevent what amounts to legal extortion, or worse, an actual pornographic website bearing the iconic name.
Universities have begun to pro-actively buy up domain names. The University of Kansas wisely has bought the domain www.kugirls.com and many others. Other universities which have bought .xxx domains include Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and Missouri. Many companies are doing the same thing. It might be wise for well-known churches and ministries to consider.
One very good thing about the .xxx suffix is that it can be used to filter out or block known pornographic websites from search engine results. ICANN also has a proposed suffix .KIDS which would be for use by websites designed specifically for children.
"The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide.
An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. " (Quotation taken from Wikipedia)
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Anytime I post anything related to sex or pornography on this blog there are several visits by searchers originating on pornographic sites. My hope is that these visitors may see Something on this blog which speaks to them.
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