This Slashdot comment by user Bob_Robertson presents an excellent viewpoint on why the new top-level domains (e.g .xxx) do more harm than good.
"What is surprising is the number of otherwise smart people who cannot grasp this. Since the DNS system is already difficult for humans to use by itself (eg. coke.com or coke.net or coke.int or coke.org or coke.ny.ny.us) because they are trying to use it like an index rather than a registry, they then advocate adding yet more TLDs. Yet it is the very use of TLDs that has confused the difference between an index and a registry in their minds in the first place, as well as caused the shell-game problem of which TLD to look under first."
As another user pointed out, if nothing else, the newish '.biz' extension makes for quite a fantastic spam heuristic.
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