a] I wasn't aware there was an internet pornography problem - of all possible outlets, it's most available and with the widest variety. Nobody should have any problem finding whatever pornography they require.

b] What makes you think that all countries would simultaneously pass what seem to be pointless and arbitrary laws making subject matter 'illegal' purely on the basis that it is primarily available at an address that has a cooked-up and much-rejected top level domain that serves no real purpose or advantage to the purveyors of said subject matter.

c] How could it make it 'policable' (if such a thing is seen as desirable, which it isn't).

d] Oh, yes - first years registration free? That should clinch it.

With no cost to most porn sites, the www can be changed to xxx, at least those with dot com at the end.

But this solution will ultimately take you back to the old issue of "what constitutes pornography" wouldn't it? You would, again, be faced with a situation where you have a quasi-governmental agency charged with policing and enforcing pornography. Such a proposition is both distasteful, potentially unconstitutional and unnerving. I have an alternate idea, how about a subset Internet for kids only. Disney, Pokemon, Teletubbies and whatever else it is that kids like could be assigned their own have their own domain. Would make parental software much easier to program.

I think some of you missed the point. It is not what is allowed or not or whether it should be available or not. It is a question of identification. The pornographers precisely know what is porn. That is why there is a charge and money associated with it. All commercial porn sites must be easily identifiable with xxx or pro identification. Also, they should not be cross indexed. I have very often been surprised or shocked to see the listing of porn sites when you search inocuous terms.

It won't work, simply because of how the internet operates. Spend some time setting up a DNS server and a network, and you'll see why.

Any website can have any TLD suffix they want and can buy, by design. It's not something you can police per country, becuase the internet is global and all it requires is ONE country to have a law allowing a thing in order for it to affect all other countries.

It's like saying you don't agree that gravity should affect cars, so you pass a bunch of laws for floating cars.

Yes, my point is not for policing or restricting. It is for alerting parents and whoever do not want to view porn. This will help to block domains with a given suffix. Of course-your point is cheaters will not get punished and there will be violations.

pornography is not illegal.

This is the standard "why don't they" / "but it won't work" argument.Spartha said "The pornographers precisely know what is porn.", the point is they don't, they think they aren't pornographers. Only you know what you think is pornography, and the next person may well disagree with you.

As an example, look at this site. Is this site pornographic? Would you want to force it to have a .sex, .xxx URL? These adds are on billboards, and prime time TV spots, would these adds be allowed in whichever country you live in. This is a government-sponsored advertising, and, as far as I know, there has been no controversy about it.

This is a problem of intent versus reaction.

.xxx wouldn't solve the "problem" as a whole. It would merely make a haven-slash-taboo zone where pornography is known to be. If you wanted porn, you would definitely find some on .xxx, unless you were forbidden by protocol.

This would not stop porn on other domains, especially that which is craftily masked (i.e. one letter away from a genuine site). This would also not define what porn is/is not, since individual tastes vary widely. Legislation would (and should) affect this matter on a country-by-country basis.

Better Solution. See Requiring a dot Sex Extension on the URL

Probably wouldn't work, since noone has juristiction over the whole world.

offering just simply a .xxx domain extension and just telling people it's for use by pornographic websites (much like .com is supposedly 'only' for profit corporation, .org is nonprofit, etc) since you're not saying you HAVE to be porn to have it or requiring that if you are porn that you HAVE to register, it eludes the moral and legal questions and allows many pornographers to self-identify, and networks could just categorically block anything .xxx, and if it catches a few legit sites, well that's just what they get for having that extension.

it won't eliminate the problem of what people consider pornography being on .com's etc, (I used to work for a school district that considered myspace.com pornographic in nature) but it will lessen it by making it possible for the pornographers to identify themselves to just about any software.

I've surf the internet heavily for several years, I've never been to a porn site. The only "problems" I see are porn ads that the sites I frequent purposely place there. Maybe you're just an idiot.