Pornographers will go to the '.xxx' domain, but they won't leave the '.com' domain, says FRC's senior legal counsel Patrick Trueman.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), recently announced a plan to create a '.xxx' domain address to house pornographic websites. Patrick Trueman, Family Research Council's (FRC) senior legal counsel and former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, expressed strong opposition to the plan by releasing the following statement.  

"The new domain would do more harm than good. The '.com' domain has been a cash cow for the porn industry and pornographers will not give it up and remove themselves to the '.xxx' domain. Instead, they will populate the '.xxx' domain and perhaps double the number of porn sites available on the Web."

"The '.xxx' domain also cloaks the porn industry with legitimacy. The industry will have a place at the table in developing and maintaining their new property. Creating a virtual red light district may also discourage law enforcement from bringing obscenity cases on the notion that the problem is solved."