So I Won’t Be Getting Belch.XXX

There goes my plans to have porn-based belching.

Lots of organizations are lashing out at ICANN, the group that manages the domains for the internet, for denying a top level domain of XXX for porn sites and smut peddlers.  Governments and parent groups said that it would be easier to block these domains for kids.  Kids complained that it would be too easy to block access to their porn. 

From CNET here:

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has rejected a controversial proposal to create a new .xxx domain suffix for adult Web sites.

ICANN on Friday voted 9-5 to deny an application from ICM Registry, which for the past several years has sought to be the registry for adult content Web sites.

ICANN, which oversees domain names and Internet addresses, decided that ICM’s proposal raised too many public policy concerns and ultimately could change the role of the nonprofit organization.

The meeting minutes and an explanation of the denial is here.  If I read it correctly, the reasons are that there was not enough participation and crucial questions about governance, law and other issues went unanswered.

The idea always seemed kinda stupid to me.  Somehow the Internet Gods are supposed to corral all of the porn kings into a single black holed domain?  Riiiight.  As soon as we do that, we will make all the spammers send their email from the domain of .spm so we can filter them too.