The Brabant municipality Maasdonk) is the first Dutch municipality to a pornodomeinnaam in the contract. Maasdonk wants to own say avoid that for others is a ‘false image’ of the church arises.
Maasdonk has the pornodomein registered to prevent others from the domain name register, and that people in the municipality associate with sex, ” explains alderman Rini van de Ven. “We want to go on with the registration the name of the municipality to protect. We are going to have nothing to do; it is not intended that the domain that visitors refer to our regular website.” The municipality has approximately 150 euro, paid for the domain name.
Maasdonk is known to be the only Dutch municipality .xxx domain has been determined. The sale of top-level domains for the adult industry began in march of this year. That led to resistance from the pornowereld. Companies fear that the host of the sites in a special domain, eventually to more censorship leads, while other opponents claim that the introduction of the porn industry legitimizes. Among other Manwin, the company behind some of the big porn sites like YouPorn, has lodged a complaint.