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Originally Posted by Robbie
Makes sense.
But it also makes my point...I think. lol
First off, ICM is going to play hell "objecting" to anything that makes money for the God's of TLD's.
Second...Every extension has a "purpose" and yet every extension has porn sites on them. It would appear to me that trying to stop people from registering domain names with any extension they want would be self-defeating to the powers that be.
If the scenario you posted were true I couldn't have a .net (network providers) and damn sure couldn't own the .org (non profit)
I guess none of us know, but my gut feeling is that "no" they aren't going to be able to "stop" anybody from opening up .porn and .sex and .xx or any other tld.
When they made their "deal" and paid out there ass and THOUGHT they were going to ass fuck our industry for their own pocketbook...everything was set up completely different. There were only a handful of TLD's (excluding country extensions) and new ones were RARELY allowed.
And then last week...that completely changed. LOL!
Now any group can put together some capital and put forth a proposal for a new extension.
I don't think that .XXX is going to have any power at all to tell anyone what they can and can't do, though they surely do want that power.
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Well.... yes and no. ;-)
True, the stated purpose of the .net and .org TLDs when they were first established was to serve networks and non-profits, but if there was contract language that made those intended uses
required for registrants of .net/.org domains, those terms of use have never been enforced.
At this point, if those terms ever did exist, they don't exist in the current language of the agreement between ICANN and VeriSign (which runs .net) or the agreement between Public Interest Registry (which runs .org)
When .net and .org were created, the Web was a very, very different place. Among other things, they were created prior to the existence of ICANN; .net and .org were both established in 1985, ICANN was established in 1998. By the time ICANN was founded, the originally envisioned (and never enforced) purposes of .net and .org were a distant memory.
The open/unrestricted use of .org was acknowledged long before PIR took it over (March 2010), and PIR has made it very clear that they intend to keep its use open. VeriSign has been clear about the open nature of .net, as well.
Going forward, the TLD playing field is very different than it was in 1985-1998, particularly from a legal standpoint, and ICANN's presence in the mix is the key.
