ICANN's General Counsel: .XXX Will Get the Green Light - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

Barefootsies · 06-25-2010, 12:03 AM

The bell has tolled....

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BRUSSELS, Belgium — ICANN'S top legal official told its board of directors that the panel will likely approve the sponsored top-level domain tomorrow when it is put up for vote.

ICANN general counsel John Jeffrey told the board it will likely vote to approve .XXX subject to due diligence on ICM Registry's financial and technical capabilities.

The board is looking to approve the application conditional on review of GAC advice AND sponsorship community.

The .XXX proposal has many in the online adult industry worried that it would amount to the creation of a red light district on the Internet.

Diane Duke, the Free Speech Coalition's executive director, said ICM's initiative could end up setting policies that harm its businesses. Duke is in Brussels to lobby against .XXX.

"ICM still has a long way to go," Duke told XBIZ. "It is not a surprise that ICANN accepted the findings of the independent-review panel. This was ICANN’s first IRP process and to not accept its findings would call the entire process into question.

"From what I heard today, the conditions that ICANN put in place to approve ICM’s application included taking into account GAC’s position — solidly opposed in 2007 — and that the application still meets the sponsorship requirements today," she said.

"These are obstacles that ICM will have a very difficult time overcoming."

But ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley, in a letter on his company's website, has remained optimistic over the possibility of .XXX coming into fruition.

"While most Internet extensions are used for just about everything you can imagine, .XXX will be focused on providing an online home for those members of the adult industry who wish to self-identify and responsibly self-regulate," he said in the letter. "We are excited about the idea — and we know you will be too."

Lawley told XBIZ that Jeffrey focused on previous decisions by ICANN over .XXX and "that [ICANN] was going to accept the panels findings that we had met the criteria in June 2005 and the board were wrong to overturn that decision in 2007.

"He proposes they will perform some perfunctary due diligence to make sure ICM is still current and then present a new contract to the board for signing," he said.

In March, ICANN delayed a vote on ICM's proposal to sell .XXX domain names and directed its general counsel and chief executive to seek public comment.

ICANN received thousands of entries from adult companies and other stakeholders, as well as the general public. Most posted items against the implementation of .XXX.

Earlier in the year, dispute-resolution judges, 2-1, ruled in favor of ICM agreeing that ICANN's decision to nix .XXX were arbitrary.

ICM Registry's proposal would make it the gatekeeper for the sTLD, requiring it to monitor registrant compliance with content site-labeling requirements.

.XXX would be dedicated exclusively to adult content and could be used by some states as a means to force all unwanted or illegal content to migrate to that sTLD that could then be easily monitored or filtered.

ICM’s plan also would require a set of “best practices” to protect children online and fund the International Foundation for Online Responsibility, an independent organization ICM has said it would create if approved.

ICM pledges to donate $10 of the proposed annual fee of $60 for a .XXX domain name to child-protection groups and require users of .XXX to label their content.

Lawley said that there's a "detailed rollout procedure" included in the draft contract that would allow the sTLD to begin selling names after 180-210 days if it is approved.

We'll see how this goes once rolled out. In regards to lawsuits and what not should states start a XXX ghetto.

ICANN's General Counsel: .XXX Will Get the Green Light - XBIZ.com

BullsEye · 06-25-2010, 12:04 AM

old news

GerardWon · 06-25-2010, 06:16 AM

Sounds like target marketing for my adult website to me. Excellent.

MidgetTears · 06-25-2010, 11:31 AM

BF, I truly hope your history and reputation on GFY follows you here. You are one of the biggest douchebag, crybaby posers to ever post on a forum. It's always disappointing to read a forum full of awesome discussion and information and see some fake, delusional crybaby like you show up.

GerardWon · 06-25-2010, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MidgetTears

BF, I truly hope your history and reputation on GFY follows you here. You are one of the biggest douchebag, crybaby posers to ever post on a forum. It's always disappointing to read a forum full of awesome discussion and information and see some fake, delusional crybaby like you show up.

Excellent 2nd post (have no idea if its true or not but in this case it doesn't matter) welcome to WF.

conv3rsion · 06-25-2010, 11:01 PM

lol adult, adult lol

iliketurtles · 06-26-2010, 12:38 AM

domainers happy?

MidgetTears · 06-26-2010, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by GerardWon

Excellent 2nd post (have no idea if its true or not but in this case it doesn't matter) welcome to WF.

Haha thanks. It's 100% true.

I was always impressed with the quality of discussion and wealth of info here. It was just dissapointing to see someone who I know quite well to be a retarded sig whore, pixel wasting idiot, posting irrelevant BS which is the same cut and paste he probably posted to 20 different forums just to get people to see his sig links for hosting. He does this relentlessly on gofuckyourself.com starting BS threads day and night, bumping his own threads day and night, trying to get anyone banned who calls him out for being a sniveling, whining, self righteous sig whoring douchebag.

^^' webmaster · 06-26-2010, 02:15 PM

Now adult industry prepare for $XXX registration fee and even more $XXX for preordering application fee. ICANN is a bunch of corrupted greedy people.

kingscotty38 · 06-29-2010, 09:26 AM

I'm personally lining up for goatsec.xxx

Bidding war, bring it chumps.

theleonz · 07-07-2010, 01:07 PM

old new, isn't it?

faceblogger · 07-20-2010, 09:48 AM

Quite interesting :-) Go .xxx

decadance · 08-13-2010, 05:52 AM

how to read them.. [dot]sex or [dot]xxx? which one do you like?

McBob · 09-12-2010, 01:05 PM

.XXX did not get the green light. ICANN only agreed to continue with the review process. Right now ICANN is requesting comments from the parties involved:
ICANN | ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX
ICANN Email Archives: [xxx-revised-icm-agreement]
Just like last time, adult webmasters and program owners are mailing their objections to the ICM's .xxx proposal, because the .xxx tld if it ever gets approved will only benefit the ICM and a small group of registrars. It offers no benefits whatsoever to adult webmasters or even parents who wish to protect their children from accessing adult material.

mattfca · 09-12-2010, 08:34 PM

it would be nice if all porn had to be on its own TLD (.xxx)

McBob · 09-13-2010, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mattfca

it would be nice if all porn had to be on its own TLD (.xxx)

What about the people who've invested thousands of dollars in their current adult .com or .net domains? Should they lose all their hard earned money? their se listings? their type in traffic? their bookmarkers?

Who will police the .com, .net and other tld's for adult content? Will you be happy if the price for a .com domain doubles or triples because if adult content is no longer allowed on those tld, someone will have to patrol those domains (and will have to be paid for that)?

Why stop at porn? Shouldn't all religious sites be on a .god domain? Shouldn't all automotive sites be on a .car domain?

One could list 100s of reasons why a .xxx tld is a bad idea, I still have to hear one good reason why it would be a good idea.

mattfca · 09-13-2010, 03:52 PM

Heh, really great arguments there.

One good reason for .xxx would be parent/school/work filters. Instead of corporations and governments shelling out $xxxx for web filters they could just block the TLD.

Why would all religious sites be .god? They are two totally different things.

BackBanana · 09-24-2010, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by McBob

What about the people who've invested thousands of dollars in their current adult .com or .net domains? Should they lose all their hard earned money? their se listings? their type in traffic? their bookmarkers?

301. no harm done.

McBob · 10-16-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BackBanana

301. no harm done.

a .xxx domain would cost $60 / year. So forcing adult webmasters to use the .xxx would cause plenty of harm.

McBob · 10-16-2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by mattfca

Why would all religious sites be .god? They are two totally different things.

If you force 1 type of content (adult content) into a ghetto (a separate tld), then why stop there? Shouldn't all kinds of content be on special tlds then? What's so special about adult content that it should be on a separate tld? Because some people might consider it offensive? Well, then you should put all content that could be considered offensive in a special tld. Some people consider alcohol offensive, some people consider cleavage offensive, some people consider other people offensive, some people consider the actions of the church to be offensive, some people consider certain books offensive, some people consider rock music offensive,...

goddesspoo · 10-24-2010, 02:32 AM

finally. .xxx makes a lot of sense.

McBob · 12-02-2010, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by goddesspoo

finally. .xxx makes a lot of sense.

only to those who are not in the adult industry.

theentry · 12-03-2010, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by McBob

only to those who are not in the adult industry.

Exactly, it's pretty shitty if you have many other TLD's developed and suddenly you need to switch to an other extension (which is likely to come in a few years)

06-25-2010, 12:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
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06-25-2010, 06:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
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06-25-2010, 11:31 AM	#4 (permalink)
MidgetTears Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 9 iTrader: 0 / 0%	BF, I truly hope your history and reputation on GFY follows you here. You are one of the biggest douchebag, crybaby posers to ever post on a forum. It's always disappointing to read a forum full of awesome discussion and information and see some fake, delusional crybaby like you show up. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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06-26-2010, 02:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
^^' webmaster Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 231 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Now adult industry prepare for $XXX registration fee and even more $XXX for preordering application fee. ICANN is a bunch of corrupted greedy people. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ↑ Best Hosting Provider & Domain Registrar Ever

06-29-2010, 09:26 AM	#10 (permalink)
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07-07-2010, 01:07 PM	#11 (permalink)
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07-20-2010, 09:48 AM	#12 (permalink)
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08-13-2010, 05:52 AM	#13 (permalink)
decadance Waagh Nob Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Above the earth below the sky! Posts: 136 iTrader: 0 / 0%	how to read them.. [dot]sex or [dot]xxx? which one do you like? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ - Work is a prayer -

09-12-2010, 01:05 PM	#14 (permalink)
McBob Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 123 iTrader: 1 / 100%	.XXX did not get the green light. ICANN only agreed to continue with the review process. Right now ICANN is requesting comments from the parties involved: ICANN \| ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX ICANN Email Archives: [xxx-revised-icm-agreement] Just like last time, adult webmasters and program owners are mailing their objections to the ICM's .xxx proposal, because the .xxx tld if it ever gets approved will only benefit the ICM and a small group of registrars. It offers no benefits whatsoever to adult webmasters or even parents who wish to protect their children from accessing adult material. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

09-12-2010, 08:34 PM	#15 (permalink)
mattfca Unbanned Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Vancouva Posts: 1,609 iTrader: 2 / 100%	it would be nice if all porn had to be on its own TLD (.xxx) Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ mattf.ca

09-13-2010, 03:52 PM	#17 (permalink)
mattfca Unbanned Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Vancouva Posts: 1,609 iTrader: 2 / 100%	Heh, really great arguments there. One good reason for .xxx would be parent/school/work filters. Instead of corporations and governments shelling out $xxxx for web filters they could just block the TLD. Why would all religious sites be .god? They are two totally different things. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ mattf.ca

10-24-2010, 02:32 AM	#21 (permalink)
goddesspoo Banned Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: California Posts: 105 iTrader: 3 / 100%	finally. .xxx makes a lot of sense. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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