XXX Domain Approved by ICANN
 

Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

The proposal was made under ICANN?s rules for ?sponsored? TLDs, through which domains have been created by interest groups including the aeronautical industry (dot-aero) and the cooperative movement (dot-coop).

ICM Registry, the company that proposed the dot-XXX domain, welcomed the vote.

?It?s been a long time coming,? ICM Chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement, adding that he is ?excited? by the move.

?The decision should soon bring to fruition our six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN?s previous decision to deny dot-xxx was wrong,? he said.

ICM Registry says it is a ?completely independent entity with no affiliation, current or historic, with the adult entertainment industry.?

That claim of independence gave ICANN board member Rita Rodin Johnston pause for thought. ?I still question whether, in fact, there is a real sponsored community here,? she said in the board-meeting debate before the vote.

However, she went on to vote in favor of the new domain, saying that despite her personal reservations about the proposal, she felt obliged to by ICANN?s decision-making process. ?It really doesn?t matter what I think. What?s important is that ICANN has a process that it set up and the process came back and said that sponsorship criterion was met, and that this board has the courage to follow that criterion,? she said.

Dot-XXX domains won?t start appearing right away. ICANN must first conduct a ?due diligence? study of ICM?s business plan for the domain, and then the board will review the contract proposed for the operation of the domain. That may involve referring the matter to ICANN?s Governmental Advisory Committee, which is next scheduled to meet in December in Colombia, said board member Bruce Tonkin.

?There is a potential that this is a prolonged process,? he said.

too bad the 'sponsorship criteroin' are people who were bought and paid for by icm. someone should fire bomb their offices.

Link to source?

Has anyone legitimately from our industry spoken on our behalf against this??? What chances of appeal do we have?

WOuld like to see that as well.

I hate the whole .xxx business....

I dont see anything on the blog or news of the ICANN site.

The last news they had about that was on March 26th http://icann.org/en/announcements/an...26mar10-en.htm

Home page where I found the link http://icann.org/en/announcements/

Fuck the ICM, fuck the .xxx tld and fuck anyone who thinks it's a good idea to register a .xxx domain.

Glimmer of hope:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10412765

Not seeing anything.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&p...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Could this actually be from an older article?

25 June 2010 Last updated at 05:52 ET

old as shit... Jun 25, 2010 7:20 am

oh fuck, articles I linked to are from June. Nevermind.

Yes, its an older article, look at the bottom where it talks about meeting in December in Colombia. There was a long thread last month about that meeting in Colombia where someone attended claiming to be on behalf of ASCAP.

Fuck it ??

so what's up really. has it become official or not? Does anyone know for sure?

No, OP quoted an old article.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Po...&hl=all&num=10

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374224,00.asp

There is a meeting scheduled for Feb 2011.

Old news. Old report.

Does it matter if it is legit or not when you have people like johnnyv flying to Colombia and speaking as if he does represent the industry?

I really wish .xxx would die. They keep threatening it every year it seems.

Or any groups benefiting from it by receiving donations :2 cents::2 cents:

unfortunately this time, its closer than ever:disgust

hopefully it passes soon

so it drives the final nail in the porn coffin.

that sucks..

That situation really smelled of something rotten, I wish I had access to the money trail behind it. Seems too fishy that JohnnyV decided on a whim on his own dime to fly down to Colombia, falsely claim he was the director of ASCAP and intentionally give the impression to ICANN that ASCAP was in favor of .xxx. He claims he was representing the adult webmaster community, but the majority do not want .xxx. I would bet anything ICM was behind his trip and he was compensated somehow by them.

Fully agree.

So, if Lawley said, "I am going to give part of the proceeds to Nikki Licks" we should tell you to fuck off? Hypothetically speaking, of course.

That would not surprise me.

I would tell Nikki to fuck off if
1 Nikki says they're nuetral in one breath
2.I find out some one says they're representing Nikki and says Nikki wants something implemented that they will gain from
3. Nikki comes here and says said person doesn't represent them, but they look forward to still working with them even though said person lied.
4. It would look like Nikki saying one thing but using freelance help not working directly for Nikki to get it passed, and I would tell Nikki to fuck off

Jun 25, 2010 3:20 pm

Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

blah-blah-blah...

If it true it is approved this just tell me how useless the Free Speech Coalition is. They fail to do something about piracy in the early days and now this. :2 cents:

The .XXX tld is one BIG SCAM!

:thumbsup good and interesting watch if you have a half hour to kill but seriously....

Wendy Wright is just WRONG! what a completely ignorant bitch that chick is. My personal feelings aside about the .XXX TLD her belief that it is going to create an area of the internet where C P and human trafficking will run rampant is so stupid it is just beyond belief.

She represents a perfect microcosm of the stupidity present in the general American society right now....people would actually BELIEVE that shit she spouts just because she is on the TV machine geesh!

Now you're being an asshole.
Why would I get any proceeds? I am not in the biz of running a so called no profit organization and if such proceeds were to be given to me by that asshole, I would not accept it. Maybe you would like the proceeds since you seem to defend these assholes which are involved in .XXX.

The only problem I see in your defense of these organization's, is that you seem to have your head stuffed so far up their anal cavity that you can smell the sperm oozing off of their prostate's.....Hypothetically speaking, of course
:321GFY:321GFY

fuck .xxx :mad:

I already know the ones I want.

For those wondering they are not going to take adult off of .com's ect... this is just a way to make more money.

This is an old article posted after the June ICANN meeting in Brussels. FSC was at that meeting lobbying on behalf of the industry. .XXX did not pass. Instead the Board asked for clarification of advice previously given by the GAC (Government Advisory Council) The GAC had submitted advice to ICANN with serious concerns about.XXX that they felt had not been addressed and they opposed moving .XXX forward. The ICANN Board is obligated by their bylaws to consider and reply to all advice given by the GAC.

Fast-forward to the ICANN meeting in Columbia last month. Once again FSC was there lobbying on behalf of the adult industry. ICM fully expected .XXX to pass at that meeting. FSC was successful in their lobbying efforts with the GAC and the Board voted to discuss the GAC's concerns with them directly before entering into a contract with ICM. .XXX HAS NOT PASSED. We are continuing our efforts to oppose ICM's proposal. To date, ICM has pumped well over 10 million dollars into .XXX, but FSC has been successful in its opposition. (Special thanks to our members-we couldn't do it without your support).

This is a complex issue. If you go to the ICANN website, you will find thousands of pages of material that relate to the issue including numerous letters from FSC. For folks who are attending Internext, FSC is sponsoring a panel in.XXX and we will be discussing the topic in much greater detail.

ICANN's board will reconsider the issue the first quarter of 2011 and we will keep you posted on what is happening and how you can get involved.

This needs a bump.

Read what Diane Duke said ^^^

.xxx can keep "assuming the sale" all they want. They'll snag the sheep sure enough and are counting on that. don't believe the bullshit.