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Originally Posted by MerlinK
.XXX *WILL* be *APPROVED*, BECAUSE:
ICANN and affiliate registrars will make tons of cash from the initial landrush/speculative buying of domains in the .XXX name space.
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The reason that .XXX would not be approved seems to be, that some ICANN board members are seriously questioning the issue of the sponsorship TLD (as posted up a few weeks ago on icann).. and seeing how the self-defining application of (paraphrasing here), that any adult website owner that wants self-labelling, is not good enough.
I understand your assessment that alot of people will make money, but ICANN's mission of expanding the namespace, is not for making money, its for serving the needs of communities that want the sponsored TLD.
This is the point that seems to be what might seriously undo .XXX, and having adult community take a public stance is surely one clear way of demonstrating that the better definition of the sponsored community is all adult webmasters who run adult websites.
(for those thinking that i have flip-flopped, i haven't. The points that i made prior was that the new agreement caters towards the objections of GAC/ICANN on those technical points it would appear to have ICANN approval. But, the subsequent release of the notes of the previous ICANN meeting that showed there was some serious concerns over the definition of the sponsorship community by ICANN board members has helped to illuminate the angle for which to protest .XXX)
Fight the .XXX!