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Monday, 21st March 2011, 16:45:39
ICANN approves plans for .xxx domain name
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved plans to introduce .xxx as a new top-level domain name.
ICANN's board of directors had a public meeting at Silicon Valley, situated in San Francisco, last Friday (March 18th) and gave the go-ahead to plans that could see new domain registrations in the near future.
Furthermore, the board also announced that its next public meeting will take place in Singapore in June, where it hopes to approve a new top-level domain name implementation programme.
The move had led to criticism from various groups, however, including Patrick Trueman, chief executive of Morality in Media.
He told the Washington Times that the pornography will be more widespread following the news.
"The establishment of a .xxx domain would increase, not decrease the spread of pornography on the Internet, causing even more harm to children, families and communities, and make ICANN complicit in that harm," he said.
Posted by Henry Thomas
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