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XXX Web Domains Go Public – As TalkTalk Filter Fail Leaves HomeSafe Unsafe

Dec 6, 2011

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Jay Curd

in Broadband, Desktops, Email, Gadget News, General Gadgets, Internet, Internet Browsers, Laptops, PC’s, Social Networking, Software

XXX web domains have gone live – and no we’re not talking about websites that support the clean-living straight edge lifestyle symbolised by a trio of Xs. This is a different kind of hardcore.. The ICM Registry has now decreed that adult business websites can have their own sector of the internet, akin to an…
India become first country to ban .XXX domains

Mar 28, 2011

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by

Jay Curd

in Broadband, Gadget News, Internet, Internet Browsers

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (thankfully and creatively abbreviated as “ICANN”) recently approved the domain suffix of .XXX – to replace the commonplace .com, .co.uk, .org etc. – and you can imagine the type of publisher who would want use such a web domain. Some would obviously take offence, and a number…