Web Site Pushes .xxx Top-level Domain

June 2004

Child protection advocate Mary Conyers' Web site Protecteverychild.org is pushing the movement to create a separate .xxx domain for Web sites that feature adult content. Protecteverychild.org, with members in 39 US states as well as in Puerto Rico, Zambia, Israel, China, Canada, and Australia, has received grassroots support from a number of child advocacy groups as well as the US Internet Crime Task Force. Adult entertainment giant Vivid Video has also endorsed the idea.

The Web site includes a page featuring links to lawmakers, the White House, media outlets and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body that oversees the domain name system. The .xxx top-level domain has already been proposed to ICANN, which is slated to decide its fate in September.