Breaking News: ICANN Rejects .XXX TLD - GoFuckYourself.com

Hymes · 05-10-2006, 04:59 PM

Even though it is not posted to the ICANN website yet, it is unlikely that the Wall Street Journal would have published this if it weren't true. I am still trying to absorb this as fact. Wow.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1147..._whats_news_us

Internet Regulator Rejects Dot-XXX
Domain for Adult Content
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
May 10, 2006 6:54 p.m.

The board of the Internet body that governs Internet domain names and other technical matters rejected on Wednesday evening a controversial proposal to create a domain name for the adult entertainment industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company behind the idea, called ICM Registry Inc., had proposed the new domain name suffix, dot-xxx, as a way to protect children from online pornography by making it easier to filter adult content. The company also figured to make millions of dollars from fees generated from Web sites registering under the domain suffix.

The matter exploded into a global debate over whether such a domain name suffix would address concerns about online pornography, and beyond that, over the role of the U.S. government in managing the Internet.

The Internet body that makes decisions about the domain name system, called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, operates under a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Last August, the department wrote to the Icann board about emails and letters it had received opposing the idea, expressing concerns about the effect of pornography on children and family.

The move attracted the ire of other countries that saw it as evidence of the U.S.'s influence over the Internet. The European Union, South Africa and Iran, among other countries, have argued that the Internet is a global resource and no one country should have more control over it than others.

triumph · 05-10-2006, 05:01 PM

OMG that is great!

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:01 PM

wow, i am refreshing ICANN site every 10 minutes and no word about it yet

awesome news !

potter · 05-10-2006, 05:01 PM

hmmmmmm..

munki · 05-10-2006, 05:02 PM

Ggggooooooooaaaaallllllllll!!!!!!!

Steve_NCH · 05-10-2006, 05:02 PM

Cool news.

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:03 PM

life is greatttttttttttttttttttt

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:03 PM

it means its rejected once and forever? ( voted down )

so i guess a second failure will make the ICM Registry guys to abandon this idea forever

eGawd · 05-10-2006, 05:04 PM

That article is horribly written and a jump of the gun.

dial · 05-10-2006, 05:06 PM

I can't believe you all actually thought that shit would pass

bunch of morons on here

baddog · 05-10-2006, 05:11 PM

There is some good news . . . doubt it is gone forever, but at least for another year or two probably.

davecummings · 05-10-2006, 05:12 PM

A LOT of thread-starters, posters, and emailers to ICANN deserved a VERY hearty THANK-YOU for saving our butts from a lot of near-term and future hassles. You folks stood up and defended us, and we appreciate it!!!

Thankyou, THANKyou, THANKYOU!!!!!!!

Dave Cummings

TexasDreams · 05-10-2006, 05:13 PM

http://www.icann.org/announcements/a...nt-10may06.htm

Malicious Biz · 05-10-2006, 05:15 PM

this is good news.

nico-t · 05-10-2006, 05:16 PM

was to be expected... either way it was gonna be rejected or it would be air like 2257

madawgz · 05-10-2006, 05:16 PM

WAHOOOOOOO this is AWESOME!

Shoehorn! · 05-10-2006, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TexasDreams

http://www.icann.org/announcements/a...nt-10may06.htm

That's awesome, what a relief.

Heywood Jablome · 05-10-2006, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davecummings

A LOT of thread-starters, posters, and emailers to ICANN deserved a VERY hearty THANK-YOU for saving our butts from a lot of near-term and future hassles. You folks stood up and defended us, and we appreciate it!!!

Thankyou, THANKyou, THANKYOU!!!!!!!

Dave Cummings

Thank you Dave, I know you busted your butt!

FetishWeb · 05-10-2006, 05:19 PM

Sinstar · 05-10-2006, 05:20 PM

woot woot! so we can stop worrying for a few months?

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sinstar

woot woot! so we can stop worrying for a few months?

few years !

nikki99 · 05-10-2006, 05:28 PM

wohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

BoyAlley · 05-10-2006, 05:31 PM

Very cool, a major victory for our industry indeed!

Antonio · 05-10-2006, 05:33 PM

ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 against the proposed agreement.

Jeeeesus fucking Christ, that's a really close call

Spunky · 05-10-2006, 05:33 PM

It's very good news indeed

B O B · 05-10-2006, 05:34 PM

"The board of the Internet body that governs Internet domain names and other technical matters rejected on Wednesday evening a controversial proposal to create a domain name for the adult entertainment industry, according to people familiar with the matter."

tonight, we dance for tomorrow we may fight again!

davecummings · 05-10-2006, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio

ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 against the proposed agreement.

Jeeeesus fucking Christ, that's a really close call

It looks like the American name voted in favor of it:-((((((.

Dave

CyberHustler · 05-10-2006, 05:35 PM

good news! ...

B O B · 05-10-2006, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BuySexProducts

good news! ...

understatement of the year!!!

Major (Tom) · 05-10-2006, 05:38 PM

Shit,
.xxx larry aint happy now!

Duke

FightThisPatent · 05-10-2006, 05:38 PM

Fight the dot gone!

DaddyHalbucks · 05-10-2006, 05:43 PM

Sounds good to me.

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:43 PM

I gonna donate to Family Research Council

j/k

wdsguy · 05-10-2006, 05:44 PM

life is good

L0rdJuni0r · 05-10-2006, 05:45 PM

fuck yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HDADULT · 05-10-2006, 05:47 PM

Im going to party like its 1969!

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 05:49 PM

i've been truly stressed about it in the last few days

but i also enjoyed how we recently united and opposed it

pussyluver · 05-10-2006, 05:54 PM

Not to burst all the bubbles, but that is just one battle, not the war!

Seems to me if the US can fuck something up, the whole world through some international committee will do an even better job? The hope is they get so bogged down in bullshit that nothing will happen!

The Fight Goes On.

PS - Thanks to Brandon for his efforts

LittleMack · 05-10-2006, 05:55 PM

Great fucking news

Nikki_Licks · 05-10-2006, 05:58 PM

This is the best news I have had in a while.

I must applaud everyone who kept us abreast of this situation with current information and a special thanks to everyone who stood up and took a few minutes to send in their opinions.

Now lets have a beer

seeric · 05-10-2006, 05:58 PM

now if the adult industry can get together and push .KIDS through like it should already be, like a lobbying giant this industry could be, we wont have to fend off another hostile takeover.

thank you to everyone who voted, i am sure it mattered.

seeric · 05-10-2006, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

i've been truly stressed about it in the last few days

but i also enjoyed how we recently united and opposed it

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 06:00 PM

WSJ article updated:

The board's rejection was based in part on questions about whether the targeted usership -- the adult entertainment industry -- supported such a domain name suffix, according to the statement. It also cited "public policy concerns."

so they clearly admit that the adult industry opposed it....

If we were silent in past few days then who knows what would have happened

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 06:02 PM

"Stuart Lawley, the head of ICM, declined to comment."

I'm so sorry for him

Nasty · 05-10-2006, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TexasDreams

http://www.icann.org/announcements/a...nt-10may06.htm

Good to see they named who was for it and who was against it

polish_aristocrat · 05-10-2006, 06:22 PM

another article on it

http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2006/05/10/1646269.htm

Quote:

Internet Agency Rejects Xxx Domain Name

(AP) Internet Agency Rejects Xxx Domain Name
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK
Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet.

The decision from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reverses its preliminary approval last June to create a ".xxx" domain name for voluntary use by the adult entertainment industry.

ICANN had postponed making a final decision in August after the U.S. government stepped in just days before a scheduled meeting to underscore objections it had received.

ICANN's rejection ends, for now, a 6-year-old effort by ICM Registry Inc. of Jupiter, Fla., to establish a domain for the porn industry. ICANN first tabled its bid in 2000 out of fear it would be getting into content control.

ICM resubmitted its bid in 2004, this time structuring it with a policy-setting organization to free ICANN of that task.

The company argued the domain would help the $12 billion online porn industry clean up its act. Those using the domain would have to abide by yet-to-be-written rules designed to bar such trickery as spamming and malicious scripts.

Anti-porn advocates, however, countered that sites would be free to keep their current ".com" address, in effect making porn more easily accessible by creating yet another channel to house it.

And they say such a domain name would legitimize adults sites, which 2 in 5 Internet users visit each month, according to tracking by comScore Media Metrix.

Many porn sites also objected, fearing that such a domain would pave the way for governments -- the United States or repressive regimes abroad -- or even private industry to filter speech that is protected here under the First Amendment.

Democratic Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas have introduced legislation that would create a mandatory ".xxx."

The porn industry trade group Free Speech Coalition believes a domain name for kids-friendly sites would be more appropriate.

seeric · 05-10-2006, 06:23 PM

i hope this serves as a wake up call to the adult industry as a whole to start taking the industry as a whole more serious. this could have very easily gone the other way. the time is now to support these organizatons that go to bat for this business, act like professionals, and push through the TLDs that "we" know will stop kids from accessing adult materials as best as possible.

we do in fact peddle immoral goods in the eyes of millions of americans and the governments that "protect" those people. however, many other industries are also peddling "immoral" and in fact extremely devastating products that affect the daily lives of americans for the negative. lets talk about gun manufacturers, cigarette companies, alcohol companies, and drug compaies, just to shave a sliver off the type of companies that push "questionable" materials to all the poor innocent americans.

all of these industries are represented at the government level and lobby hard to make things happen in their favor.

it is a known fact that cigarettes kill millions every year, disrupting families and damaging happy american dreamer's lives every day.

guns are responsible for many deaths each year, yet still are poured on to the streets in ridiculous numbers. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

how many people die from paxil, vioxx, and god only knows how many other drugs that are advertised to people on prime time t.v. every night? All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

alcohol companies market under the radar to young people under the guise of crafty marketing campaigns and nifty, chic ads designed to subliminally entice them into the products. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

porn does in fact break up marriages, cause some poeple to become sex addicts, possibly influence young people to have sex more frivolously, but in my opinion, and the opinion for may others, does not do the damage that many of these "represented" industries of vice and destruction.

these other industries work on the fringe of "immoral and questionable" just as we do, but they do it by the governments rules.

our industry has problems uniting. until we get over that, there will always be another .xxx, another law, another acacia, and blah blah blah.

i can get into a ridiculously lengthy editorial on why i think what i think from a ton of different perspectives, but i won't. i guess my main point out of all of this is this industry is so "me me me" that everyone risks everything they have more regularly than makes me comfortable, because many of us can say "us".

thats all. I am extrememly relieved. this could have easily been the begininng of a very long and trying perod as .xxx would have been the rollercoaster ride to hell in so many ways.

congrats people, but like baddog said, "well, doubt she(.xxx) is dead, but hospitalized anyway".

be well everyone. we dodged a bullet.

CrazyAL · 05-10-2006, 06:26 PM

RRRED · 05-10-2006, 06:35 PM

A1R3K, nicely said.

Babagirls · 05-10-2006, 06:35 PM

omg my nipples just got hard and my pussy is wet...OH MY FUCKIN GOD!!
THANK GOD IT WAS REJECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

w00t w00t!

05-10-2006, 04:59 PM	#1
Hymes Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 72	Breaking News: ICANN Rejects .XXX TLD Even though it is not posted to the ICANN website yet, it is unlikely that the Wall Street Journal would have published this if it weren't true. I am still trying to absorb this as fact. Wow. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1147..._whats_news_us Internet Regulator Rejects Dot-XXX Domain for Adult Content By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS May 10, 2006 6:54 p.m. The board of the Internet body that governs Internet domain names and other technical matters rejected on Wednesday evening a controversial proposal to create a domain name for the adult entertainment industry, according to people familiar with the matter. The company behind the idea, called ICM Registry Inc., had proposed the new domain name suffix, dot-xxx, as a way to protect children from online pornography by making it easier to filter adult content. The company also figured to make millions of dollars from fees generated from Web sites registering under the domain suffix. The matter exploded into a global debate over whether such a domain name suffix would address concerns about online pornography, and beyond that, over the role of the U.S. government in managing the Internet. The Internet body that makes decisions about the domain name system, called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, operates under a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Last August, the department wrote to the Icann board about emails and letters it had received opposing the idea, expressing concerns about the effect of pornography on children and family. The move attracted the ire of other countries that saw it as evidence of the U.S.'s influence over the Internet. The European Union, South Africa and Iran, among other countries, have argued that the Internet is a global resource and no one country should have more control over it than others. __________________

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polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	it means its rejected once and forever? ( voted down ) so i guess a second failure will make the ICM Registry guys to abandon this idea forever __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore.

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seeric .......... Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: .......... Posts: 41,917	now if the adult industry can get together and push .KIDS through like it should already be, like a lobbying giant this industry could be, we wont have to fend off another hostile takeover. thank you to everyone who voted, i am sure it mattered.

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polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	WSJ article updated: The board's rejection was based in part on questions about whether the targeted usership -- the adult entertainment industry -- supported such a domain name suffix, according to the statement. It also cited "public policy concerns." so they clearly admit that the adult industry opposed it.... If we were silent in past few days then who knows what would have happened __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore. Last edited by polish_aristocrat; 05-10-2006 at 06:01 PM..