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Old 09-21-2010, 02:43 PM  
Quentin
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Originally Posted by FetishWeb View Post
Registrars can quite easily make sure your domain stops resolving no matter where you live in the world.

Registrars depend on ICANN for credential access to register names, and ICANN depends on the US government. You are living in a fantasy if you think mass suspensions would be difficult to implement.
I didn't mean that it would be difficult in a technical sense. I meant it would be difficult to coordinate an internationally-binding legal requirement to host adult content on the .XXX TLD.

I understand the "ICANN is dependent on the U.S. government" theory of how .XXX could become mandatory, internationally. I just think it would be significantly more complicated than Congress passing a law, then calling up ICANN and demanding that ICANN assist in enforcing that law. ICANN might be dependent on the U.S. government, but it does not follow that ICANN is an indentured servant to the U.S. government.

This matter would quickly end up in court, and the courts (both domestic and international) most assuredly exercise power independent of the U.S. Congress. If they did not, COPA would be the law of the land, and the .XXX question would be largely moot for American website operators.

Regardless, I'm against .XXX, either way. Even if it were clearly impossible for it to become mandatory under any circumstances, I'd still be against .XXX for the reasons I stated in my comments to ICANN, ranging from the first comments I submitted to the most recent ones.
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