ICM Registry Attempts to Push .XXX Forward
 

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=20085

JUPITER, Fla. ? ICM Registry, sponsors of the proposed .XXX top-level domain, has sent a memorandum to the ICANN board of directors asserting its compliance with the sponsorship criteria set forward by the body for adopting sTLDs.
In its memo dated March 13, ICM claims to have gone ?well beyond what was reasonably required in reference to its application.?

The memo comes on the heels of the Board?s concerns, which were raised at the last ICANN meeting, that ICM doesn?t have the strong support of the adult webmaster community.

ICM sets out to demonstrate the support of the sponsored community by stating 76,723 .XXX adult website names have been pre-reserved since June 1, 2006; 1,217 adult webmasters from more than 70 countries have registered on ICM?s site saying that they support .XXX and wish to register a name; and close to 300 additional webmasters have emailed ICM since June 1, 2005, requesting information about .XXX registration.

In identifying the opposition to its proposal, ICM said that a few hundred webmasters have ?attempted to manipulate the public forums to overstate the size and significance of industry opposition.?

In polling data it submitted with its application in March 2005, ICM informed the Board that approximately 20 percent of the industry opposed .XXX ? a significant minority.

Regarding the opposition to .XXX, Lawley said its existence is not relevant or legitimate to the review process, comes too late in the game and contradicts how other proposals for sTLDs have been approved.

ICM referenced the XBIZ Hollywood Conference in its memo, stating that adult webmasters ?affirmatively misrepresented their strength? in describing the forum because there were many empty chairs.

ICANN General Counsel John Jeffrey noted at the last ICANN meeting that the most recent public comment period ? Jan. 5 to Feb. 5 ? saw more than 600 public comments and more than 55,000 emails. According to Jeffrey, nearly all of the emails, which were sent from a website campaign, expressed opposition to .XXX by using a form letter. Of the public comments, 488, or 77 percent, opposed .XXX.

?There has been a lot of misinformation and in some cases disinformation, surrounding this application,? ICM President Stuart Lawley told XBIZ. ?We have always tried to put forward the voluntary nature of .XXX and the benefits to the industry of being seen to attempt to self-regulate in conjunction with the other impacted stakeholders. Nothing has changed in this regard from the outset.?

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If people are going to write ICANN on this issue moving forward, address this quote...

Lawley's claiming that because a bunch of chicken little's pre-registered a bunch of domains, that THIS is the basis for the support of the triple X ghetto.

Since I am sure there are a lot of squatters, among others, who've done this pre-registration shit. YOU should post your motivations behind it in your next letter to ICANN so it takes the wind of of Lawley's sail.

:2 cents:

It is bad.

I do not think people in truth want xxx, and those who have lots of domain names, it will cost them a fortune.

http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/714433-icm-submits-documents-support-xxx.html

this thread covers that topic better :) ^^

Heh spin spin spin.. Lawley is an idiot grasping at straws.

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isn't there an intelligent mammal here that knows english well enough to send something like what he sent to counter it ? I know my English sucks

I can't believe how hard this guys is trying...this guys has passion

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I expect a few longer letters will be sent in the next 10 days....

this is a start

http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm.../msg01624.html

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4 years later - they won

It remember me when tubes has been lunched, everybody was against, they won and made more money than anybody else. And finally now everybody do tubes sites.

With that said I'm totally against the xxx....

That's not accurate. They have more traffic, not more money.

apples and oranges...

The growth of the tube sites was consumer driven.

:thumbsup

They reduced the industry down to a shadow. Then claimed they were the biggest fish in the puddle.

I remember when it was a lake, yes I'm that old.

Still back to .xxx.

I'm serious. Who else thinks Stuart Lawley is more interested in people thinking we will buy their name if they don't buy the .xxx extension?

I've had a few complaints from other Paul Markhams, one was a vicar, who said it was wrong of me to have a .com extension on their name. Think of all the people buying .xxx so we don't buy it.

I what wonder what happened to the money of those that pre-regged when this all first came about