Exexex Dotcoms In Future?

The .xxx domain for adult sites has been been proposed for some time, and while it seems like a great idea in theory, I’m sure many in the adult industry will be up in arms about it. After all, if you owned hotwetsanta.com, would you want to be forced to give it up? The AFP (via Yahoo! News) reports:

Two US senators proposed legislation that would establish a new “.XXX” domain for racy or sexually explicit websites.

The bill proposed by senators Mark Pryor and Max Baucus, both Democrats, calls upon the US Department of Commerce to exclude sexually charged content from established website domain names such as .gov, .com, .org, .net, and .edu.

Baucus said at a press conference that the .XXX domain would help parents use filtering software to keep children from accessing pornographic sites, and would help prevent hapless Internet users from inadvertently stumbling onto sexually-explicit websites that they would prefer not to see…