Yes, there’d be inherent problems trying to regulate these new TLD’s – they’ll have to have a long and hard think prior to implementation.

Even ones which seem clear cut may not be so. For example, most supporters for the ‘.xxx’ TLD would say that is easy to implement – adult content on .xxx, non adult content everywhere else.

But, have they considered the following points?

1. Who defines what adult content is? Obviously, pornography is adult content in most peoples books. But what about ‘glamour models’ and ‘lads mags’ – would / should they be on a .xxx? Or are they OK to be not classed as adult content? There are vastly differing views on this.

2. What about adult sites currently with .com’s or .co.uk’s or any other TLD. They might not want to move their content to a .xxx domain. What’s going to happen then? You can’t take the domain off them any more than a .com can be taken from an individual or a .me.uk taken from a company.

It’s a very interesting and complex situation which I think ICANN needs to devote time and resources into investigating. With many pending TLD and ccTLD registrations in the pipeline I think it’s important for them to address this issue before they introduce any more TLD’s and ccTLD’s and thereby introduce more problems :).