Two replies to proposal for .xxx top-level domain [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Re: [Politech] Weekly column: the battle over .xxx [fs]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:12:52 -0800
From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com>
Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
References: <405FE751.6040201 () well com>


You already make most of the points about the dangers of a .xxx
domain, but there is one you missed.

$60 to act as a registry for a domain?  SIXTY DOLLARS?  Especially
one people feel pressure to be in?

Verisign is now what, $6 right now, and that's considered a major
rip-off for just storing your name in a database and serving it up
from time to time.

As I like to point out, our friends at Amazon.com, for $6, will
store your name, lots of other data, your wishlist and a record of your
preferences, recommend books to you and let you write reviews in
their database.

And oh yeah, they will also send you a book with a $6 cover price.


You've already seen my thoughts on the errors of creating generic
top level domains, granting artificial monopolies on generic terms
when those should not be owned, but this price really takes the
cake.





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Subject: Re: [Politech] Weekly column: the battle over .xxx [fs]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:15:13 -0500
From: Doug Carroll
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
References: <405FE751.6040201 () well com>

[please remove my email if forwarded]

This advocates the partition of the net into 'clean' and 'dirty' as if it
were a virtue. It could lead to censoring of legal content by TLD.

There is nothing wrong now with the mix of content in the .com and
.net TLD's - except, nobody can profit from a .xxx TLD registry.

Equivalent ideas might be, separate TLD's for religious content,
political content, etc. Outrageous.

Why would legal content of any kind be a target for partition?

When govt suggested this, it was rightly viewed as a prelude
to censorship. First distinguish, then separate, then censor.

There is only one kind of protected free speech, all of it.
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