Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd Think

Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by tomwalsham on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:49PM (#3357888)

The Adult companies are opposed (and boycotting) as they already have established brands. The Xtian groups are opposed due to it validating pornography (when they shouldn't be, easier filters). The mainstream companies are opposed as the 'prevent registration for $100/yr is a bleedingly obvious protection racket to avoid higher lawyers fees for disputes.

This decision was good for nobody except ICANN, its associates, and those behind the registry.

Wait for gTLDs in April 2012 to completely distort people's concepts of the www, make the lawyers happy, and yes, break some of my regexen ;)

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by ComputerGuru on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:01PM (#3357942)

I'm curious, is "Christain" really such a long word that you have to weirdly abbreviate it as "Xtian?"

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by tomwalsham on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:15PM (#3358290)

Xmas as a replacement for Christmas comes from Χριστός and usage in English dates back to the 1500s. Admittedly the use for Christian [sic] was a bit lazy, but I was not attempting to make any point.

I enjoyed Helianthus' take on it though - goes to show whatever you say can be reinterpreted by analysts to provide a depth of meaning you never intended ;)

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by effigies on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:40PM (#3358160)

People abbreviate Christmas as Xmas. I feel that, for consistency, it should be Xian, rather than Xtian, but Xtian seems to be the standard.

Incidentally, I enjoy that you used the slur "Christain." alt.atheism?

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by pjscott on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:29PM (#3358343)

When I see the string "Xian", I read it as a Chinese word, and it sounds completely unlike "Christian". This is a problem.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by effigies on Thursday December 15, 2011 @08:02PM (#3358872)

Same, here. It's really just the consistency I like about it. Or we could switch to Xtmas.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by chc on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:22PM (#3358072)

Are "constant", "variable", "integer" and "is not" so long? Not really. People just like shortcuts.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by Helianthus on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:07PM (#3357986)

I read it as rhetorical device somehow. It evokes something of careless contempt for artificial or overbearing crude faith.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by chc on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:20PM (#3358060)

Except Christians were the first ones to replace Christ's name with X, the first letter in the Greek Χριστός.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by Helianthus on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:17PM (#3358303)

yeah sure, but if he had said Χριστός that'd be obscure formal respect.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by chc on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:31PM (#3358358)

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. My point was that Χριστός has been abbreviated to "X" for thousands of years without any implication of disrespect. I don't see how the fact that writing out the Greek word implies formal respect is supposed to disagree with me.

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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by Helianthus on Friday December 16, 2011 @11:36PM (#3363398)

In that case, I don't understand the point you were trying to make by saying "Except Christians were the first ones to replace Christ's name with X, the first letter in the Greek Χριστός."

It sounded like you were trying to disagree with my assertion that Xtian had a certain rhetorical intent, but you did it by bringing in a completely different rhetorical construct.

I do know the origins of the X abbreviation.

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