Porn Industry Against Replacing .com With .xxx

Today could be a historical one for internet porn.

The masters of the interwebs, a.k.a. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), are considering adding a new domain for pornographic websites. At ICANN’s public meeting in San Francisco today the organization’s board will be voting on the creation of the .xxx domain.

While it certainly would make smut easier to identify, the adult industry seems pretty dead set against the change. The central objections are:

  1. The new .xxx
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