XXX Domain Name Registry

So, I was hanging out over at IndieNation the other night listening to Brian Aldridge talk about people getting their financial information stolen from a website like youporn (no, I’m not linking off to that trash.)  I am still quite amazed, even given my own idiosyncrasies, that people would hand over their financial information to a website whose sole purpose is to provide people with the trashiest, nastiest videos and images on the web.  And youporn, as ugly as it may be in my mind, is still probably one of the mildest places you could go on the internet to get a fix of…whatever the hell you need a fix for.

But, and I still can’t get over it, if you’re going to give a site like that your personal, financial information, why don’t you just cruise on down to your local crack den or “corner drug store” and hand them your credit card, social security number, home address, phone number, etc?  Yep, that’s rhetorical.  I really gotta wonder this stuff because I don’t smoke crack, snort coke, toke weed, drop acid, bang heroin, pop pills, or anything like that.  And I’m not really coming down on anybody who indulges in such activities.  But, I really gotta wonder just what the hell you have to be on in order to have a mindset of thinking that something like that is actually safe, wise, or even practical.  If you’ve really got money to burn, why not drop some cash on your own XXX domain name?

Some people wonder why there’s such a fight to keep the xxx domain name or to a rush to register your own domain with a triple X extension on it.  My answer?  Because it’s big business.  As much as it shocks me that people would not only pay for such things but also fork over their own personal, financial data on the web to gain access to it, they’d also spend thousands just to get something like that set up, after which they’d rake in millions.  Same with drugs, guns, prostitution, and gambling.  Pretty much everything you’re going to see when you sit down to indulge in yet another episode of Law & Order.

It kind of makes me think of MyDamnChannel over on youtube when he tells his viewers to just “strap on yer stupid and let’s get at it.”

So, yeah…let’s strap on our stupid and go on over to them internetz and give them all our info and see what happens then. “Hey, fellars, watch this!!”

Cuddy: Are you being intentionally dense?!
House: HUH? O_O

Cleta told me this was a “touchy” subject. She’s a funny…..hey! I see what she did there! >.>