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.XXX Top Level Domain I am writing this email as a parent and as an avid internet surfer. I surf the internet about 10 hours a day. I check my email about 50 times a day, if not more. As a parent I feel that the government already has enough say in the home. I feel the more the government tries to enforce rules that a RESPONSIBLE parent should be doing is only going to cause more problems. I will explain my opinion as I go. Please feel free to edit my language as it may get a little vulgar. I am a 33 year old male. I know plenty of people that have children between the ages 4 months to 22 years of age. I am a father of 3 children a son that is 14 a daughter that is 11 and another daughter that is 14 months old. I as many other of my friends and acquaintances that I have spoken about this to feel that making the Adult Industry move their content to a .XXX domain is very unconstitutional. Lets say: You have an Adult Novelty Store. You have been in the same location for 12 years. You have had the same phone and fax number for 12 years as well. The store you own has been approved by the community for 12 years, and all of a sudden you have a few politicians wanting to make you move from your multi million dollar shop to a whole new location. This is not right. This Is Unconstitutional. Who do they think they are protecting anyway? If there is porn on the net kids will still be able to view it. Whether it is at a friends house, relatives or anywhere. From what I have seen over the 33 years I have been around with the political side of things is a lot of wasted time, A waste of tax payers money, and most of all useless laws and regulations. Check this out. Here are 2 prime examples. 1.) Tobacco. 2.) Alcohol. Tobacco, this is a good subject I will spare you all that may read this. The Government promotes smoking to bring farmers money to help the economy in the 40?s and regulate it from the beginning. Then they add tax per pack across the USA. Then they sue the tobacco companies for targeting youth with Joe camel and the additives the tobacco companies add to the cigarettes. Every smoker knows if they smoke they are highly likely to develop cancer or emphazema and eventually die from it sooner or later. At the same time as this is happening store owners are made to put the cigarettes in a locked guarded area of the store, all to prevent youth smoking. I still to this day 8 years later still see minors smoking. I see more now then I have ever seen in previous years. Kids still smoke. Kids will always smoke if they want to. If cigarettes are still manufactured, kids will always smoke. No matter where they are sold from. Alcohol. This destroys more families then divorce. This is a plague in itself. Kids still drink even though hard alcohol is sold in different stores kids still drink Bacardi and coke, Jeagermeister, JD the list goes on all the regulations don?t prevent it. I think it makes more of a demand. Kids are more interested when things are being regulated. You tell a child NO they want it that much more. I am a neutral person on this subject, but I would have to lean to not making it mandatory for the adult industry to go to A .XXX domain. It will not do any good. We do not have the funding for this non sense. If the parents would do their jobs and monitor what the kids are doing online and NOT use the internet and video game consoles as a babysitter then there kids would not be viewing adult material online. No one wants to do their part as a parent but let the government make more rules and regulations that they cannot enforce. Okay so lets say it is passed that all adult businesses online must go to a .XXX domain. Think of this. Europe, Russia, Czech Republic, UK, India, Panama, foreign countries. These people in these countries will be able to take advantage of this and reap the profits. ATTENTION ALL PARENTS. THE INTERNET IS THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY! ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS SHOULD BE. Come on people think about this. Adult material is really 1 person pleasuring themselves or 2 or more people pleasuring each other. Where do you think we came from? It is only SEX. It may not be the same old missionary position you are used too but times have changed. I am more worried about the information out there how to make explosives, Illicit drugs, child pornography, How to make a gun out of a mechanical pencil, you get my point. We need to do something about this. Before we go after the adult industry. The best solution I have heard about this and especially with more and more kids getting their own computers, is the .KIDS domain. This way parents can restrict kids to the .KIDS domain names much easier. Mandating the adult industry to move to the .XXX domain will take millions from the economy because the other countries will be able to buy www.AdultInternet.TV or www.Denaye.com or www.Sex.com and reap the profits of this and the US has no jurisdiction over other countries. This will only hurt us, our economy that I as a tax payer pays so much to help make a better place. Again you as a responsible parent might be able to lock the .XXX domain from your computers in your household but the minute Billy or Sally get to a friends house that does not have their computers locked with the .XXX domain will be able to view it. The only way to prevent kids from seeing Adult material online is to MONITOR YOUR CHILDS ONLINE USE. With a pinhole camera mounted in a clock on the wall behind them or right next to them. Hey parents and politicians don?t blame the Adult Industry for your own neglect. So you are too busy working passing new laws so you don?t have the time to monitor your childs internet access. Have the balls to tell them NO. Maybe later. Monitor your kids email. I get about 300 emails a day from all different companies. I have done some research and testing as well. I have been to Adult sites, I have taken the free tours they offer. I even signed up to a few sites for a 3 day trial. I even went one more step further and paid for a 6 month membership. Out of the 127 sites I went to and took the tours I only received 1 email that did NOT have the unsubscribe option at the bottom and as soon as I emailed and mentioned it to them a week later I received another email from the same website and they implemented it to their out going emails. I probably saved them thousands in court fees especially if someone else would have caught it. I only received 6 emails from sites I toured there pages and did not leave or give my email address to. Each one of the emails I received from the other sites in the subject line had Adult in it. Then when I clicked on any links that were in the email it brought me to an index page that highly expressed that the material beyond that page contained explicit content and made me click stating I was 18 or 21 or not of age and it was okay to my community standard to view this material. So for as email goes. The only reason your child id getting these emails in the first place is because they gave up their email address for the ?Free Picture of the Day? or they gave up their email address to get a little further through the tour pages on the sites they were surfing while you as a parent was too busy doing something else. Or the email is coming from a different country which we cannot stop anyways. What really needs to be regulated is Myspace.com there is more porn there I think than anywhere. Hey politicians, try keeping up with all the regulations you have already implemented that are not working before you make more. Save us some money for once. I bet the majority of the community did not know about this. Back in 1995 there was an incident with Traci Lords being I think 17 and doing a erotic shoot for an adult company and the government came up with 2257 record keeping. Making it mandatory that participants in adult films and photo shoots must be at least 18 at the time of the filming or the photo shoot. The government also laid down a lot of rules for the adult entertainment industry at the same time. This was all in 1995 This is now 2006. 11 years later. The government has not done a random record search or enforced the laws that much during those 11 years that they had already made into law. Now they are trying to pass more absurd laws that are useless. The Child Protection Act was created to prevent kids from being abused and made to do X rated content which is very good, along with viewing such materials. Did you know that there has only been 2 incidents with adult companies since then that have gotten fined or jail time out of all this? Because adult online businesses do not need kids to watch. Adult online businesses don?t need or want kids to perform in adult films or photo shoots. All the child porn comes from sick perverts with digital cameras at home or other countries, then transferring them on Peer 2 Peer networks. The government is already trying to pass more useless 2257 requirement laws on the adult industry. ATTENTION PARENTS. MONITOR YOUR CHILDS INTERNET ACTIVITY. SIT NEXT TO THEM. I DO. My opinion bottom line. Creating and making adult online businesses move to a .XXX domain will only hurt the US economy. Will not prevent kids from seeing adult material. Be glad little Billy wants to see naked girls. At least he isn?t learning how to make a bomb out of a piece of bubble gum, or a gun out of a pen. I do NOT condone minors watching Adult or R rated shows. But to add more useless regulations that will not be effective by at least 40% and will hurt our economy financially is not worth all this time and money. For god sake. We are in a war and a war that is costing us 50 billion dollars. The Adult Industry is a 50 billion dollar a year industry. So we can?t just eliminate them. Making them move to a .XXX domain will only generate more money to foreign countries that do not have to go by our laws and regulations. The internet is a huge universe growing by the thousands daily. Would you go from where you are now and go to New York City or would you go from New York City to East LA and let your kids run free? Tell them to come back in 3 hours? NO. I didn?t think so. Some of you may but most of us wouldn?t. The internet is the same thing But bigger and more people. Instead of mandating and attacking the adult industry and hurting our economy anymore. Try the .KIDS domain. You will be creating more jobs. A new top level domain which seems to be something most want. Plus it will be easier to set a computer to only access .KIDS domains. This will eliminate the highway robbery that will occur from the .XXX domain. I say highway robbery because I saw some of the prices they wanted for the .xxx domain when it was first released by ICANN from domain registry?s it was not cheap like the .COM .NET .BIZ .US .ORG etc.. Making the adult online industry move to a .XXX domain will only make the .XXX domain name 50.00 a year because it will be mandatory. Compared to average $9.99 a year for a .COM I was basing that by www.GoIcy.com registrar a place to register your domains. As for the comment that the parental control programs are to complex for some people. Well you as a parent better learn. So why should we make an industry that is really cleaning up their act from 1995 (more so than being enforced) move to a .XXX domain. We as parents should do our jobs. Be more involved with what are kids are doing online and offline. The computer is not a babysitter. Take 30 minutes and go to Mysapce.com browse around. Look at profile of kids that are 17 and younger you will be amazed at how many parents do not do their job as a parent. This is only one opinion from one open minded father of 3. Who knows if this will ever get printed or if anyone will see/read this.