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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Agreed, but this isn't about freedom. That's protected in your bill of rights.
If GFY members or the porn industry could effect the outcome I would be all in favor of spending time to fight. After all the attempts to block .xxx it went through, so no effect there. People wil register .xxx if they see a financial benefit, not for some vague effect it might have on whether it lasts. The idea of online porn organising itself is funny though. Strange how people still believe it could happen.
I think .xxx will die because it won't get taken up in the numbers they expected. And the odds on it being mandatory are long. That might get challenged under Freedom of Information laws.
Live with it like 2257 and doing a tax return.
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Don't you think IFFOR is a potential threat to your freedom in a business sense, if they are allowed to draft rules that govern our industry?
All past attempts to block .XXX
did have an effect. It delayed approval for years and made ICM Registry waste millions of dollars in legal fees. While ICANN did eventually approve .XXX, it's ultimate future success or failure rests with whether or not people spend money on it. If we as an industry can show strong opposition to adopting .XXX, then domain speculators will also not spend money on .XXX because they won't see an opportunity to resell the domains.