ICANN, the The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved a plan that will allow the sale of XXX domains or domains ending in .xxx. CNN reports that the domains will be sold by ICM Registry Inc., a company run by a British businessman. ICM plans to charge $60 for each domain, which is considerably more than prices for other domains which run from $5 to $30.
The new pornography suffix was among 10 under consideration by the regulatory group, which also recently approved addresses ending in "jobs" and "travel."
ICM contends the "xxx" Web addresses, which it plans to sell for $60 a year, will protect children from online smut if adult sites voluntarily adopt the suffix so filtering software used by families can more effectively block access to those sites.
