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Plans for .XXX Domain Rejected
May 11, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet regulators have rejected plans to create an exclusive .xxx domain for adult-related Web sites, which advocates said would make it easier for Web users to locate - or avoid - pornography online.
Conservative opponents of the plan argued that it would legitimize pornography, while opponents in the porn industry feel that it could lead to more state control. Paul Twomey, head of Internet regulator ICANN (icann.org) said the decision was not political.
The idea for an .xxx domain first emerged in 2001. A final approval on the domain has been delayed several times - most recently in December - following last August's request from the US Department of Commerce to postpone the plan due to its "concerns" about the domain. The plan has been attacked by many, including former ICANN board member Karl Auerbach and US conservative religious groups like the Family Research Council.
ICM Registry (icmregistry.com), the company that proposed and plans to run the .xxx, says the domain would have simplified finding and filtering pornographic material online, but critics believe that there was no guarantee pornographers would migrate material to the new domain because registering for the .xxx would be voluntary.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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