Saskatoon, Saskatchewan a town in Canada is purchased 6 xxx domain names for 2 years. The dot xxx domain name extension was originally created as a lure to get the adult industry off of the .com's and to clean up the internet. It was never intentionally created though to get towns onto the adult domain name extension. A spokesman for the town said there reason for purchasing the domain names was so that when people typed the domain name in an adult website would not come up. This is a typical practice in major cities, universities, and corporations however in an attempt to protect companies intellectual property rights. But that practice has mostly only been used for the major domain extensions like net, info, com, org, biz, co.uk, and us. The xxx extension is a new one and we will have to see what level of traction it gets online in the coming months to years.
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