‘.xxx’ porn domain arrives


At long last and after heavy debate on both sides, the “.xxx” top-level domain has been formally and officially approved, reports Yahoo News. The idea is that the .xxx would replace the .com suffix for sites that register these domains–so you’d visit majorpornoperation.xxx instead of majorpornoperation . com. Existing .com domains would remain in place. Any adult reader of this column should understand what it is that .xxx is designed for: pornography. And while the Internet is positively crawling with porn–one statistic holds that a quarter of all Internet searches are for adult terms–the creation of a so-called online ghetto for pornography has been controversial…

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