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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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

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

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I'm so sorry for him :( :1orglaugh

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

another article on it

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

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.

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A1R3K, nicely said. :thumbsup

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

:thumbsup w00t w00t! :winkwink:

50...........

oh my God, now you got me excited again :thumbsup :winkwink:

pics by any chance? :winkwink:

woj now that .xxx is rejected I'll have some biz for you perhaps :thumbsup

now that is good news :thumbsup

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close? you think?

what if it was 90 - 50 or 900-500?

ICM REGISTRY GIVES UP? :)

http://icmregistry.com/press.html


that page contained a phone number just few hours ago

:pimp

I was about to congratulate Air on his insightful post, but this talk of hard nipples and wet pussy has made me lose all train of thought.

:1orglaugh

me too. :error :error :error :error :Oh crap

wet pussy?

:O

thank you for this wonderful and good news.

great news ! congrats everybody !

Too bad.

Please take that shit from under your name. I dont want to hear or see anything .xxx anymore. Please.

this greedy retard :321GFY

man, seriously, this is almost news of the year for me so far :thumbsup

so go start some thread with some homo pics and relax


but yeah you're right, i will change my title soon, no need for it anymore :glugglug

hmmm


http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...-15318,00.html

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ruh oh *grrrrr*

heads up people, gaping hole alert!

Coonan applauds .xxx's failure
Andrew Colley
MAY 11, 2006
ICT Minister, Senator Helen Coonan, said that the world's peak internet regulator's decision to reject a proposal to set aside a new internet domain for adult material had stopped the creation of a "haven" for offensive content.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) announced that its board had voted to reject the establishment of a .xxx top-level-domain.

Of ICANN's 14 board members, nine including chairman Vint Cerf, and its president and chief executive Paul Twomey, voted to reject the proposal.

"The Australian government had grave concerns about the .xxx proposal, stating strong objections to any measure that would lead to an increase in pornography on the internet, push offensive content on vulnerable groups or create a haven for illegal material," Senator Coonan said.

The idea's champion, Florida-based internet company, ICM Registry, began work on the proposal to create the domain six years ago.



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ICM applied to ICANN to operate the domain under the authority's sponsored domains scheme. The .xxx domain passed early stages of ICANN's sponsored domain approval process in June last year.

However, the decision over the domain became controversial and it began to attract attention from conservative groups and the US government.

ICANN chief executive, Paul Twomey, said that the .xxx domain could be revived if a proposal were submitted to ICANN for its establishment under its regime for registering generic top-level-domains.

"It wouldn't have to pass criteria for sponsored domains," Mr Twomey said

He said some board members had doubts about whether the domain would qualify as a community of interest under ICANN's current guidelines for sponsored domains.

"The applicant had put it forward as a sponsored community from the responsible adult entertainment community. We had received letters from major companies in the sector saying that they were not supportive of it," Mr Twomey said.

Board members were also "uncomfortable" with wording in ICM's proposed contract for the domain, Mr Twomey said.

The contract in part established rules for complying with ICANN's policy expectations.

ICM had proposed to enforce pornography laws applicable across national jurisdictions. However, Mr Twomey said that ICANN's board had received advice that raised the possibility that the regulator might be held responsible should ICM fail to meet the obligation.

"Some of the members of the board asked well how do you enforce that? How do you have compliance against that?" he said.

Mr Twomey said he would reveal his personal reasons for opposing the domain when the views of all members were published later this month.

Fight the buh bye!

wow, its already 7+ months gone since this thread was made and .xxx rejected :)

I still remember how happy I was back then. It was also great to see GFY'ers united and voicing their opinions to ICANN...

This was definitely the best thing that happened to this industry in 2006 (well, the other things weren't good to begin with, I'd say)

Let's hope .xxx stays dead forever ('though it's not likely)


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