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Have to agree with Andrea... it's not a bad thing to have ICM in our faces all the time. Why? Because I am THAT sure that the facts are not on their side, and the danger comes from the industry NOT being informed about what it means when you buy and use these domain names.
I've always felt that debating .XXX with ICM is a pretty straight-forward task. They just don't have the advantage of having something that most of us want. And when you take even a calm and calculated look at .XXX domain names, even if you ARE willing to screw over the rest of the industry, using them STILL just makes no sense.
So... even the people who took the "I don't care, I just want to make money, I'll work with those guys, screw everyone else" approach to the tubes.. EVEN those guys, if they take a good look at .XXX, they'll pass too... for their OWN good, even if they could care less about the collective good.
Now if the people from ICM are there making their best arguments and can't respond with a list of benefits that outweigh the likely negatives and liabilities and risks involved when you use these domains... then I can't see what's more convincing than that to get people to not use them.
And the beauty is... anyone who DOES buy these domain names, they're mostly hurting themselves as long as too many people don't start buying them. So the few fools who don't get the message will reap what they sow.
All this said... like I told Alex at the show, I thought it was a really really bad idea for him to take that sponsorship, and I don't think the online community will forget it anytime soon.
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