I can hear Elvis Presley now singing In the Ghetto…..except now it’ll cost you six times as much for the privilege of living in a slum.

Wide World of Porn- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced that they have finally approved the .xxx based domain name conventions for pornographic Web sites. They would soon begin their talks with the ICM Registry Inc., run by British businessperson Stuart Lawley to clarify the remaining issues about this topic.

Online websites dealing in adult material are worth around USD 12 Billion and they would be soon able to purchase their choice of .xxx domains. One of the expectations is that they would be available as early as this fall or winter. Much of it depends upon the plans being rolled out by ICM Registry Inc.

The authority just recently approved the .jobs and .travel based domain names. .xxx was just another of the 10 extensions under considering for quite sometime by the ICANN. ICM plans to sell these domain names for as much as USD 60 a year. They also have concrete plans to prevent children from accessing these sites, as it would be now easier for filtering software to block these types of websites.

However, it all depends upon how many adult website companies move from the regular domain names to the .xxx domain names, which would be costing around 6 times the conventional domains.