Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

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!