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Not to mention... a point that was brought up in a letter to ICANN from ICA brought up another good point.
Proceeds from .xxx sales are supposed to go to "good causes".. charities and groups to help fight kiddy porn (IFFOR being one of the orgs). This is good and all.. but sets a precedent for the domain name system to be used as a source of funding for all kinds of "Good cause" orginizations. Want to setup a tobacco related domain? Fine pony up 100$ for the domain to fund cancer studies.. You can see where this is going... For reasons like this, I have come to the conclusion that .xxx will not pass in its current form. Not to say it wont come back as a different proposal later.. but the current one will not pass.
It has been a mandate in the DNS since the beginning that the cost to setup a domain should really be no more than the administrative and operational costs for setting up said domain, so the system remains neutral, bias free, and free of hidden taxes. ICANN can't approve .xxx without breaking many of the cornerstone rules and tenets they have followed (or attempted to follow) since their beginnings.
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