As Strange As It Can Get

When you have the bureaucracy which oversees website domains on the Internet presenting a new domain designed specifically for pornographic websites, and you have not only religious groups, but also pornographers standing in opposition, the title of this blog post is as adequate a description as can be!

The Blaze has the story out on the opposition to the new domains:

Religious groups argue that giving adult websites their own corner of the Internet legitimizes the content.

Pornographers worry it will ghettoize their sites. Although it’s meant to be voluntary, they fear governments could try to mandate the domain’s use, so that pornographic content is more easily blocked.

There's no specifics given in the article as to what these religious groups are, and the only group associated with the pornographers mentioned is known as the Free Speech Coalition, but it is interesting to see this opposition.  It's also interesting to read about the main proponent of the new domains, primarily because the man in question would stand to make quite a bit of money from it:

ICM Registry and its CEO, Stuart Lawley, who has led the fight for ICANN’s approval of “.xxx,“ stand to profit handsomely from the rollout of ”.xxx” websites – because he will be in charge of collecting fees for the use of the new domains.

$60 a year for each domain name (when domain names are said to be no more than $10 a year), and half a million such names expected to be purchased; no wonder this man is in favor of the new domains.

Well, it's interesting to say the least, and I can't say I know what to make of all this.  What say you?