Breaking News: ICANN Rejects .XXX TLD

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

oh my God, now you got me excited again

pics by any chance?

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

now that is good news

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

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.

me too.

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

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

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

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)