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What TLD should adult sites use now that .coms can be seized by local conservative politicians?
I saw recently that the Texas attorney general successfully domain locked a Costa Rican-owned porn site (.com TLD) because they did not institute age verification measures.
Such measures are bad for privacy, and also economically infeasible for adult sites to comply with. (This is why these bills are often bankrolled by religious groups whose motive is to censor porn.) Due to the impossibility of complying with such legislation, adult sites are unlikely to adopt them and are instead more likely to move jurisdictions.
With that in mind, let's do a thought experiment of what TLDs adult sites should use if they do not want to be under the whims of religious theocracy governments such as Texas. Let us say for this thought exercise that the hypothetical adult site is fully compliant with international copyright laws and has full performer consent.
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Basically the default i-want-to-avoid-laws-of-country-x checklist: The target has to be fine with the use case and shouldn't have any connections to the offended country. In case of the US that pretty much rules out everything managed by ICANN, so what's left are ccTLDs most of which look like ass when used without connection to the country they represent, which will probably leave the handful of domains which have somewhat successfully marketed themself towards an international audience.
A bunch of those are likely still managed by US companies and therefore won't fly or have local laws that are being enforced hindering adoption. You have stuff like .cc (has a Chinese connection i think, which might not be good?), .ws (no idea who administers that or what West Samoa thinks about porn), .co (again: who administers it and what is Colombia's stance here?), .pw (shit domain, never got accepted as "professional web", no idea about Palau? or who's running it), .cm (no idea who's running it or what Comoros thinks but it almost looks like .com, which is good and bad at the same time), .tv (again: who's running it but .tv historically had a lot of porn sites so Tuvalu might be fine with it in general).
None of the options are really all that great. Outside of maybe .tv for cam sites since those have regularly used the extension anyways and it's a pretty good fit.
He also wants marijuana banned. Texas keeps voting these assholes into office.
Is it so hot in Texas if they can't have fun nobody else should?
I'm surprised there isn't already an adult oriented one that the porn industry got together and made happen.
I think there actually is .sex and .adult but they are under ICANN like all other new and old gTLDs, so they won't escape the long arm of the (US) law this way.