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Originally Posted by Herd
Then why would ICM have a 5 person council, that advises, enforces, and terminates with their rules, laws and policies from A thru J, that every adult applicant must adhere to?
All of this for a company just selling domain names?
For years, GoDaddy has been selling domains for many adult sites and have none of these bizarre demands.
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Because if the put the "image" up that they are just another TLD to make money off people it would be shot down. Yes there is a "possibility" for people to filter off TLDs.. this is well known.
India already stated they will block .xxx TLDs, it doesn't mean they will block .com's. The United states cannot force adult sites to only use and be confined to .xxx it would be discrimination and be deemed unlawful.
Just remember you have to spend money to make money and thats what ICM did.
So what ICM doesn't like you and terminates your .xxx domain names? If you have a trademark they cannot let anyone else use it, infact you can probably throw a injunction against ICM and force them to block registration of your trademark. Since you control the trademark if you don't want someone having the ability to issue your trademark to someone else they would open themselves up to a huge lawsuit.
IP and Patent trolls would simply LOVE for a case like this to come across their desk and go after ICM for trademark infringement, which would never make it that far because once ICANN gets involved in a domain dispute its done and over.
I have read their "IFFOR" and all that it really retains to is simple. Child Pornography.. ok and the ability not to be anonymous and to be responsible for your domain. Is that to much to ask for? Why do you want to hide? While yes there can be proxies that hide your whois information the information still behind the whois information just like behind every other TLD in the world must be accurate.