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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
iirc, ironically, the porn industry was willing to do this, but others feared it would "make it too easy to find porn."
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This was initially true. ICANN initially dropped the idea of .xxx due to religious conservative objections in the US. Then other countries started to complain that "The US" <> "The Internet" and perhaps a new overseer should be developed to replace ICANN without the strong American influence.
So .xxx was re-introduced.
However this time, along with the religious objections, the porn industry decided they didn't want it because it would be too easy to filter out all sites ending with .xxx. It was kind of interesting - groups on opposite sides of the issue both agreeing they didn't want it because it would be too easy to identify/block porn sites.
ICANN once again dropped the idea (this was within the past month). This time the reason given was that they did not want to be put in the position of deciding what was porn and what wasn't.