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An internet address designed exclusively for ~~~~ographic websites was yesterday approved by watchdogs.
Hundreds of thousands of explicit sites are expected to use the '.xxx' address as an alternative to '.com' or '.co.uk' after its use was officially sanctioned.
Some 110,000 sites have already made reservations to use the suffix, known as a domain, when it is launched in 2011.
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as ~~~~ sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address
But critics said the address will create an 'online red light district'. They also warned the change would make it easier for children to find indecent material.
Vivienne Pattison, of the pressure group Mediawatch UK, said many ~~~~ sites simply ask users to click a button to 'prove' they are 18. She called for ' meaningful' protections against child access.
The creation of the domain was approved by the internet watchdog Icann.
ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx domain, expects to make ?20million from selling it to around 500,000 websites.
Founder Stuart Lawley claims to already have 110,000 reservations and could get .xxx up and running within six to nine months after it is approved.
'I think we could do a million or more. There are several million adult TLDs already out there,' he said.
Lawley claims the name will make it easy for web-blocking software to filter out '.xxx' sites by requiring them to carry a machine-readable metatag marking them clearly as ~~~~ography
'It will promote more labelled content,' he said. 'People who want to find it know where it is and people who don't see it or want to keep it away from their kids can use mechanisms to do so.'
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Every internet ~~~~ography website to get '.xxx' domain name | Mail Online
An internet address designed exclusively for ~~~~ographic websites was yesterday approved by watchdogs.
Hundreds of thousands of explicit sites are expected to use the '.xxx' address as an alternative to '.com' or '.co.uk' after its use was officially sanctioned.
Some 110,000 sites have already made reservations to use the suffix, known as a domain, when it is launched in 2011.
A man surfs an internet sex site in Brussels as ~~~~ sites stepped closer to a new '.xxx' internet address But critics said the address will create an 'online red light district'. They also warned the change would make it easier for children to find indecent material.
Vivienne Pattison, of the pressure group Mediawatch UK, said many ~~~~ sites simply ask users to click a button to 'prove' they are 18. She called for ' meaningful' protections against child access.
The creation of the domain was approved by the internet watchdog Icann.
ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx domain, expects to make ?20million from selling it to around 500,000 websites.
Founder Stuart Lawley claims to already have 110,000 reservations and could get .xxx up and running within six to nine months after it is approved.
'I think we could do a million or more. There are several million adult TLDs already out there,' he said.
Lawley claims the name will make it easy for web-blocking software to filter out '.xxx' sites by requiring them to carry a machine-readable metatag marking them clearly as ~~~~ography
'It will promote more labelled content,' he said. 'People who want to find it know where it is and people who don't see it or want to keep it away from their kids can use mechanisms to do so.'
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Every internet ~~~~ography website to get '.xxx' domain name | Mail Online
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