The highly contentious .xxx domain extension could also finally become a reality. Hopefully the long fight for this domain name has come to an end and allow the extension to be used. It will hopefully separate the more prestigious businesses from the sex industry, what the Internet was built on some may say.
The policies that are to be voted on have taken around three years and $10m (£5m) to formulate, ICANN president Paul Twomey told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday. “This is the first time [ICANN will be voting on] the detail of how [such] applications would work,” said Twomey. “The vote on Thursday will essentially be the board saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as to whether [these new domain extensions are] implementable.”
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