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September 14th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
A new domain charity is making its premier soon called CarryOn.com. Anthony Peppler and Sania Faucher have announced they want to help make the Internet a safer place for children. They are starting a charity that will allow owners of sexually explicit domain names to donate them to the charity. Instead of deleting the domains the former owners can clean up the Internet by donating them to this charity. The mission is very simple, CarryOn.com will start collecting as many adult domains as they can and instead of showing adult content or ads they will direct them to family safe viewing websites. If a curious child types in a domain name that CarryOn.com owns they will be taken to a safe destination.
The charity will be incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit. To make a donation that is tax deductible Moniker has volunteered to appraise the domains that are over $5,000 in value. This will allow domainers to donate domain names and may be riding on their consciousness. Domain owner have to fear that if they delete a domain that may be harmful to a child in will fall into the wrong hands. This is a perfect solution to the problem and I think an excellent idea. Allow domainers with Adult domains to retire the domains into a safe place that will pay the renewal fees and keep the domains out of pornographers hands forever.
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September 15th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
A very noble idea that is also one of the most silly things I have heard of.
I think the effort would be better spent to promote ISP filtering of accounts used by children. Don’t let them enter any URL that contains “xxx” or other such things. You could block more current and future variations of such things with a far smaller use of resources.
All removing domains from use is going to do is drive up prices for ones that are available. Hmmm, maybe I should consider investing in some hyphen-infested adult domains…?
September 16th, 2007 at 3:54 am
This seems like an idea that at it’s root is sound and not really harming anyone. I agree with Christian, that this could create a unnecessary bloat of value in that area of internet commerce.
Filtering, child education & parent accountability (the latter two are a much different conversation) is a far better path.