Webmasters, entrepreneurs and budding pornographers alike yanked their credit cards from their pockets worldwide this morning to purchase highly-anticipated .xxx domain names as they finally became publically available.

 

The official registrar for the urls, ICM, says that the move is ten years in the making and comes as a maneuver to put as much pornography as it can under a single Internet umbrella, creating a safer network of smut for all surfers of the Web. While the online world is largely dominated by xxx-material, only those with the new domain extension will be scanned daily for malware by McCafee, keeping the consumer confident that the porno they’re perusing won’t be voluminous with viruses. Owners of .xxx website will also be responsible for following a series of self-regulation practices in order to keep their sites safe from children and other unwanted audiences.

 

Around 100,000 websites with the xxx domain extension went live today, reports PC World, after a select audience was already offered an opportunity to pick out their own pornish urls.