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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
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.
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I must say,
ICANN isn't exactly the immaculate organization you all seem to think they are. The members on their board of decision makers are controlled somewhat by lobbyists and their financial input. For instance, there was a scare earlier this year, that ICANN might come into some sweetheart arrangement with registrars to charge *premium* renewal prices on *premium* domains, based on how good they are - i.e.: Homes.com might be $10,000 a year to renew, while Abdbdshhs.com might be $7/year still.
This was prevented, but only because of domain lobbyists was this attempt squelched.
If the adult industry is seriously interested in having input, I suggest you all start a collective fund (you'll need about $75-100k to begin), and hire a lawyer to lobby for the path you want your industry to travel upon.
Other than that, senators/ICANN doesn't give a shit what individual adult program owners think.