12-10-2010, 03:16 PM
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Porn sites closer to getting '.xxx' Web address
(AP) – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internet's key oversight body is one step closer to giving pornography websites their own online address.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, voted Friday to move ahead on a contract with an American company, which plans to sell domain names ending in a new ".xxx" suffix.
The vote to enter into an agreement with ICM Registry LLC came at an ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. ICANN voted in June to proceed with the contract — reversing several decisions to reject ICM's application.
The new registry still has other hurdles to clear, however. ICANN also voted Friday to consult on the matter with an advisory committee comprised of government officials worldwide. The committee has raised concerns about a suffix dedicated solely to sites with adult content.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...1a9defc8c6dab4
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So What Exactly Did ICANN Decide About .XXX and New TLDs Today?
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Issues mostly punted to next year.
There’s an old truism amongst lawyers. Show them a one page contract and they’ll tell you it’s rock solid. Show them a long contract and they can start poking holes in it.
That truism carries over to ICANN’s resolutions on .xxx and new top level domain names today. They’re long and therefore say less than usual. There’s a lot of wiggle room.
.XXX - ICANN “intends” to enter into a contract with ICM Registry to run .xxx. Yesterday I predicted it would be full steam ahead on .xxx, but I was wrong. This looks like a slow crawl to the finish line. Mark my words — if .xxx doesn’t get resolved before the Draft Applicant Guidebook, ICM will lay down the legal hammer on ICANN. And that could delay new TLDs.
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http://domainnamewire.com/2010/12/10...ew-tlds-today/
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More time is needed to work through some remaining issues, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board said in a resolution approved at a meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, on Friday.
Specifically, ICANN wants to give its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) a chance to weigh in on key issues such as trademark protection, malicious conduct, root-zone scaling, economic impact, geographic names and morality-based objections. The ICANN board expects to meet with the GAC in February of next year.
However, finalization of this mechanism, known formally at the Applicant Guidebook, is now closer than ever, said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN board chairman. "I think we have reached a turning point in relation to that program and hopefully the resolution captures that," he said during the board meeting, which was webcast.
"There are some intense and difficult problems ahead of us, but the number of them have shrunk dramatically from when we started this," he added.
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