On 3/21/2011 4:38 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42
PM, Marc Perkel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
He has one point I
agree with. Why should .XXX cost more than .COM ?
Why not?
They certainly have higher costs in terms of
diligence. And they do have years of litigation to
recoup, and, um, I think there are few more .com
registrations.
One comment in another thread made me chuckle
about the irony of the phrase "intellelctual
property" when applied to smut.
The question about why to charge more isn't "why not"
but "why". Why should one kind of business be charged
more that another. What you refer to as "smut" is human
reproduction without which none of us would be here. We
all owe our very existence to "smut".
There is indeed intellectual property associated with
"smut". Good porn is not easy to produce and those
people work hard for their money. I don't see the
difference between that and any other subject matter
covered under copyright law. I personally own adult
intellectual property, although it's not porn. It's
instructional information.
I personally don't see sex as less moral that drilling
for oil, running a nuclear power plant, manufacturing
guns, or any other business that some people disagree on
moral issues. And I thought we were against ICANN
becoming the moral police.
The way I see it there has to be a reason for charging
more for .xxx and that reason has to be based in some
sort of reality and such a test needs to be applied to
other similar domains. Also - I don't see the moral
difference between these domain names:
sluts.com
sluts.xxx
I don't understand the diligence and cost of litigation
argument.
Also in my view .xxx makes life easier. The .xxx people
don't want kids and Christians wasting their bandwidth.
I think there is a right to have porn and a right to
avoid porn. The .xxx is sort of a truth in labeling
issue that helps both seekers and avoiders of porn. It's
not a final solution. I wouldn't ever want to see laws
requiring adult content to have an .xxx listing. But if
more of it moved there it would help both sides.
Charging more for .xxx helps defeat the purpose of
having .xxx in the first place.