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polish_aristocrat · 06-26-2008, 11:52 AM

Interesting situation has arised now.

ICM claims they'll continue to try to reverse last year's ICANN's decision rejecting .xxx via their recent Independent Review Petition.

see more here:

http://www.xbiz.com/news/95780
http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/835979-fight-xxx.html

They say that "the new application process will take a couple of years to settle in", which is not entirely true as far as I know - all the media report that .TLD's approved under the new, relaxed guidelines, will go live already next year.

But, this is interesting: assuming the Independent Review petition won't help ICM, then they'll have to indeed apply for .xxx under the new terms, making it very likely that it will be approved. However, soon everyone with the right budget and business plan will be able to apply fuch any TLD, meaning that lots of other parties might apply for .xxx.

Who will get it then, will depend on the money... and nothing else!

Basically, whoever pays the most to ICANN, would be allowed to run the .xxx domain name registry!

On another note, I've seen various reports, some say $50k will be enough to apply and receive your own .TLD, others say about $500k. So although this is surely a historical decision, it is not certain that in fact the Internet will change. There's a possibility that all the new extensions will stay marginal.

EDIT: extensions like .playboy or .pepsi would be useless.
Why pay $50 or even $500k to have such domain.

Does anyone really think that Playboy would be now www.playboy.playboy and Pepsi would be www.pepsi.pepsi?

06-26-2008, 11:52 AM
polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	Interesting situation has arised now. ICM claims they'll continue to try to reverse last year's ICANN's decision rejecting .xxx via their recent Independent Review Petition. see more here: http://www.xbiz.com/news/95780 http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/835979-fight-xxx.html They say that "the new application process will take a couple of years to settle in", which is not entirely true as far as I know - all the media report that .TLD's approved under the new, relaxed guidelines, will go live already next year. But, this is interesting: assuming the Independent Review petition won't help ICM, then they'll have to indeed apply for .xxx under the new terms, making it very likely that it will be approved. However, soon everyone with the right budget and business plan will be able to apply fuch any TLD, meaning that lots of other parties might apply for .xxx. Who will get it then, will depend on the money... and nothing else! Basically, whoever pays the most to ICANN, would be allowed to run the .xxx domain name registry! On another note, I've seen various reports, some say $50k will be enough to apply and receive your own .TLD, others say about $500k. So although this is surely a historical decision, it is not certain that in fact the Internet will change. There's a possibility that all the new extensions will stay marginal. EDIT: extensions like .playboy or .pepsi would be useless. Why pay $50 or even $500k to have such domain. Does anyone really think that Playboy would be now www.playboy.playboy and Pepsi would be www.pepsi.pepsi? __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore. Last edited by polish_aristocrat; 06-26-2008 at 11:54 AM..