ephemera

the ABC reports that a proposal to introduce a .xxx domain has been rejected by ICANN. curiously it was not the porn industry that was behind the plan, but a couple of conservative us senators who thought that it would make porn easier to control – they reckon if they ban sexually charged (sic) content from established website domain names such as .gov, .com, .org, .net, and .edu it would prevent hapless Internet users from inadvertently stumbling onto sexually-explicit websites that they would prefer not to see.

this particular hapless internet user inadvertently stumbles onto lots of websites i would prefer not to see! can all those be herded into their own special domains too? i have some suggestions for the new domain names. what about .toy for all websites that have games and which are about games, .fla for flashy flash websites which take ages to load, .noi for noisy websites, .pop for websites that make annoying pop up windows? … um what else is there? .ads for sites with visually distracting banner ads? .rol for sites that have big graphics appear over the text you’re trying to read when you inadvertently roll over an ad?

meanwhile it is all happening over at sex.com :

thank god for free enterprise and freedom of expression