A quick refresher of years of this sh*t (off the top of my head):
- domains will cost around $60 - $75 / year. $10 of the fee will go as grants to child protection organizations. Note, most organizations that are "child protection" are typically anti-adult (except of ASACP.org of course)
- the board of directors for ICM will have 7 positions. One is dedicated to "adult community", one is for "free speech", but isn't FSC. One is for "child protection" , one is for ICRA/FOSI, and the rest of ICM. As you can see, that a TLD that is supposed to represent the industry, has really only 1 vote.
- supposedly only adult industry people can register the domains, but yet 100,000 domains have been pre-registered, most likely from domainers trying to cash in.. lets not even get into the discussion about who gets the .xxxx , is it the .com owner? the .jp owner? etc
- if you have a .com and you also have the .xxx you are required to put labelling on the .com and the .xxx - most likely ICRA/FOSI labelling instead of
ASACP's RTA label that was created by adult, for adult (
http://www.rtalabel.org) (which i co-authored)
- there might be "premium" .xxx domains that will go for a higher renewal price. You can see this going on in like .tv
- the speculation that if the .XXX domain is not taken, that some default website will show up, most likely someone who gave their support for .XXX would get to run this "parked" page. Network Solutions did this a while back called Pathfinder and got a huge stink over it.
- there were a couple laws proposed to use .XXX to make it mandatory, despite ICM stating they have put up 250,000 in the defense to fight against that, if it were ever to happen. FSC laughed at the $250K number, since they know how much it takes to fight.
- there were many large companies who didn't want to take a public stand against .XXX (but were against it) for fear they will lose their traffic deals with them
- there were many companies who gave their support for .XXX but that list to ICANN has never been made public. would be nice if you could FOIA that info from ICANN.
Fight the energizer .XXX !