The adult industry demonstrates against the XXX domain FSC blog The Internet is about to get a seedy new neighborhood: the body governing top-level Internet domains has approved a new .xxx domain for porn, despite objections from the adult entertainment industry.

ICANN concluded its annual meeting in San Francisco today, and voted 9-3 to approve the .xxx domain. The idea for the domain has been kicking around for almost a decade, and was approved briefly in 2005, but ICANN reversed itself a couple of years later.

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