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A dult sites are going to get their own domain name. What do you think about it?! Photo: Flickr At least pornography industry will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net. ICM Registry Inc, the company that proposed the dot-XXX domain, welcomed the vote. “It’s been a long time coming,” ICM Chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement, adding that he is “excited” by the move. “The decision should soon bring to fruition our six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN’s previous decision to deny dot-xxx was wrong,” he said. ICM Registry says it is a “completely independent ent...

Whether you are looking for cartoons, videos of nursery rhymes or animated movies to keep your kids entertained, YouTube has them all. A simple search reveals that YouTube currently has more than 65,000 “Mickey Mouse” videos and over 56,000 “Tom and Jerry” cartoons. It will therefore be hard, if not impossible, to find a video that’s available in your nearest movie library but is not on YouTube (the video may have been ripped from the DVD and uploaded illegally but that’s a different story). Now all YouTube videos are appropriate for children Kids, as most parents would agree, are quite tech-savvy these days. They may be too young for reading or writing but they can still easily operate the YouTube site (using image thumbnails) without seeking the help of their parents. That may be a good thing but the problem with YouTube is that it is not a very child-friendly site in terms of content. You child may be watching a perfectly “safe for kids” video on YouTube but she may still accidentl...