The Bush Administration apparently isn’t grooving on the concept of a .xxx domain structure for a virtual red light district for adult sites. They want more time to review the situation.

An anonymous reader writes “The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography. This is despite the the .xxx domain being approved in June and New.net selling domain names using the .xxx suffix for many months before the approval.”

It’s rare when I agree with the Bush administration on anything these days, but I’m sure our reasons for not wanting to see this adult-only district are probably much different.

This .xxx thing is going to benefit the registrars more than anybody else. Don’t fall for the sucker pitch that it’s about protecting the children or creating a special place for only adult sites, blah, blah, blah. The problem is almost no adult webmasters are going to redirect their existing, established .com, .net, etc traffic to a .xxx domain just because there is a special place for it, so even with this special area you’re going to have the huge adult sites still operating where they always have been and thus the same filtering/censoring issues that still exist today.

All this will do is make some people feel good that there is a special place for adult content online (and I wonder how long it will be before mainstream sites start operating off of .xxx domains for the ’shock’ factor?). Also, the price of these domains is higher than dot coms, which certainly leaves a musty odor. I’ve talked to numerous adult webmasters and very few plan to be buying .xxx domains.

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