Adult Websites Will Soon Get Their Own .XXX Brothels, But Not All Are Excited

This is a guest post from Andrew Allemann, author of Domain Name Wire, a blog covering the business and policy of domain names. He has been active in the domain name industry as a buyer, seller, and consultant for over ten years.
A new .xxx top level domain name is coming soon, and a lot of people aren’t happy about it.

On Friday, the Board of Directors of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved entering into a contract with ICM Registry to operate a .xxx top level domain name (TLD). The first domain names bearing the new TLD are expected to hit the web later this year and will sell around $75-$100 each.

Getting .xxx on the web hasn’t been an easy task for ICM Registry. It originally applied for the domain in 2004 and it was essentially approved by ICANN’s board. But then conservative groups such as Family Research Council and Focus on the Family started lobbying governments to halt the new web extension. ICANN ended up canning the idea, leading to an independent review against the non-profit coordinator of internet naming systems.
This opened .xxx back up to discussion in February 2010. Ironically, a group of adult web site owners that are part of adult entertainment trade group Free Speech Coalition joined conservatives in opposition to the new domain.
They worried that governments would try to restrict adult web sites to .xxx and then censor the domain. They also are upset about paying to defensively register their “brand names” in .xxx. Free Speech Coalition organized aprotest with placards reading “No to .XXX” outside the ICANN meeting in San Francisco this past week. They only mustered up a couple dozen people and a homeless guy who had been bumming cigarettes off meeting attendees all week.

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This Guy is in Prison Because he Posted Naked Pictures of his Ex-Girlfriend on Facebook

Yes, that's true! This guy, Joshua Ashby, a 20-year-old New Zealand painter is in prison right now. Why? Because Joshy posted naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook after they broke up.

After five months of relationship with his girlfriend, they broke up. Cuz of that, he cut up her dresses and told the lucky lady that "I'm going to kill you, dead bitch". As usual, he logged onto his ex-girlfriend's Facebook account and changed her profile picture to the naked one he had for her and guess what? he made the account public to everyone. Facebook has actually closed the account in 12 hours but this guy was unlucky.

Joshua's parents described him as intense and agreed with the 4-month prison sentence they received from New Zealand court, his mother said:

And maybe when someone thinks about doing [something like that] they'll remember someone got sent to prison for that and they'll say: `Oh my God, I'm not going to do that.

So, be careful and try to handle naked pictures with care. To be jailbroken really hurts!

[Stuff.co.nz, Gizmodo]

Yogile – A Cool, Simple and User-Friendly Photo Sharing Site

There are already lots of photo sharing sites and applications lets you share your photos with friends, colleagues, family members and anyone you care about. But, you have to start thinking about a new and easy photo sharing site. Yogile is a new photo sharing site. You can upload and share your photos, that's what any phot sharing site can do, but in Yogile it's about sharing function, and what you can do with it, that’s really special.

With Yogile, I can get some pictures for myself at an event and have a gallery where my friends can put their photos too. This is exactly what the service is pitched for. You can upload your photos privately or make them public. You can start an album by uploading some pictures via mail or by direct links then allow other people to contribute to it, you can also get your own URL and email address to share with anyone who would want to upload his photos to your albums.

In brief, Yogile simplifies group photo sharing and make sense for group utility. On other hands, Yogile is very simple, clean, fast and reliable. You can sign up easily by writing down your e-mail address and password. If you want it private, just include the album password (not your account password) during signup. The service is free for 100mb of upload space, after that you can get your premium account for $24.95 per year that gives unlimited photo uploads, albums and storage.