I just emailed 13 ICANN board directors directly regarding .XXX....

[polish_aristocrat]

Actually, I wanted to email 19 of them, but I couldn't find emails to each of them.

Anyway, I figured it won't harm, at least they will more likely read their own mail than each of the 400 public messages posted there on the ICANN site.

Here's my message

subject "regarding ICANN and the .xxx domain"

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you to express my concerns regarding the proposed .xxx domain name extension that is going to be debated on your next meeting on May 10th.

I am a member of the adult webmaster community and I will try to express the opinions of said community.
As an experienced internet user, developer and entrepreneur I will also try to look at this problem from a wider perspective.

Creating a specific domain for adult related content has been discussed almost since the beginning of the commercial internet in the mid. 1990's.
Such proposals were brought up by different organisations and politicians but they were never implemented because there has been no consensus whether such idea is truly worth implementing.

Now it seems, that we are the closest to the 'porn domain' ever, since ICANN basically gave a 'green light' to the ICM Registry who applied to run this domain name extension.

At this point I could point out that ICANN seems to be creating recently many domain extensions, which are not serving any real purpose in my opinion.
I am relating to domains like travel, .mobi, .museum or .jobs.
I am however in no position to judge ICANN's decisions on these matters and I don't want really to oppose them, since these domains may not serve a true purpose, but they don't cause any harm either.

However, the proposed .xxx domain name has gained worlwide media attention and a huge amount of critical voices, from very different sides.

As a member of the adult webmaster community I would like to state that also the huge majority of our industry does not want this domain.
We feel that this domain is truly not neccessary and if anything it can have negative effects - not only on our industry but on the whole internet.

ICM Registry claims that this voluntary TLD would bring self regulation into the adult industry and eliminate unethical behaviors.
First of all, we can not talk about self regulation, if anything - we can talk about outside regulation because the .xxx domain registry would not represent the interests of the online adult industry.

Second, the adult industry has already reached a certain point of self regulation where the unethical business practices are eliminated, while the criminal activities ( such as using underage content ) never had any support from the industry and those few criminals trying to make money in such ways can't be perceived and treated as representatives for our industry.Therefore, a possible .xxx domain name implemenation would have no real impact on these 'bad activities'.

Third, even if what I said above wasn't true ( well, it is true ) then with a suggested $60 - per domain pricing, no company or individual webmaster would give up their main adresses ( usually .com's ) and move to .xxx voluntarly anyway.
And a forced transition - even if implemented in the US would be impossible to enforce on a global level and... according to ICM Registry, they have already ensured that .xxx stays voluntary so this shouldn't be even a question.

To sum up, the .xxx domain would serve no real purpose other than making money for the ICM Registry.
None of the goals presented by the ICM Registry to ICANN would be reached, other than their own goal - which is to show good intensions and in fact hoping to exploit the online adult industry.

Please also note that the ICM Registry claims to have "adult industry support" for this domain.
I would like to state that this is simply not the case and the overhelping majority of adult webmasters don't want this domain.
I realize that this might be hard to prove in an email - so please take my word on it.
Or you can just look at the huge anti.- xxx response in your public comments forum.

Finally, I would like to remind you, that not only the adult online industry is opposed to .xxx.
As you must remember, such a different organisation as Family Research Council also stronly opposed this idea last year.
From what I heard, also the US Department of Commerce is against this idea and several other countries or international bodies like the European Union, don't want it either.

With that being said, I'd like to kindly ask you to vote down the .xxx domain proposal on your next meeting.
ICANN may be an independent body but you just can't ingore all the millions of people who don't want the .xxx domain created.

With Kind Regards,


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Looks good

[Tom_PM]

overhelping majority ?

oops

Looks good though

[madawgz]

you think they will actually read it, i hope so

[seeric]

can i have those email addresses, i would like to email them too
thanks..

[seeric]

you can email or icq to me, wouldnt want the pro xxx fuckers or the antagonists to email them obscene things.

[SomeCreep]

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

Actually, I wanted to email 19 of them, but I couldn't find emails to each of them.

Anyway, I figured it won't harm, at least they will more likely read their own mail than each of the 400 public messages posted there on the ICANN site.

Here's my message

subject "regarding ICANN and the .xxx domain"

Always spellcheck your work, you silly!

"organisations" = organizations
"worlwide" = worldwide

...that's all I found in about 5 seconds or reading half your letter.

[polish_aristocrat]

Originally Posted by A1R3K

you can email or icq to me, wouldnt want the pro xxx fuckers or the antagonists to email them obscene things.

do you still want it?, i have been away for a few hours

but actually, there might be no need

ICANN is considering posting my message on their main website ( !!! )

[polish_aristocrat]

one more thing


please do not copy my letter and don't post it on the public comments section as someone already did


I didnt post it there, I sent it directly to the private email adresses of the ICANN board members, and they consider posting it on the main ICANN site as said above.... so please dont copy it and dont post it as your own in the public comments section...

[Manowar]

good work!

[seeric]

thts ok, sound like your mailing did the trick

[DutchTeenCash]

good letter