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Originally Posted by Big E
What's the list of 2257 lawyers that did NOT support .XXX TLDs?
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The only public statement that has been made by 'industry' attorney is Larry Walters;
http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-xxx/msg00003.html (supporting .XXX)
His post was during the open forum, where people were able to make their comments and probably helped
I was one of the handful that did post up comments;
http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-xxx/msg00053.html
from larry's post:
"The webmaster community should get behind this proposal which will give something back, instead of waiting for another group to submit a generic TLD proposal based purely on profit motive. "
Stuart Lawley's comment in an AVNonline interview (
http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?P...tent_ID=231312)
"question: Is this solely a for-profit venture?
Clearly, there?s no hiding that. I?m an entrepreneur, and hopefully this is going to be a sound business, running the machinery of the registry under me. But IFFOR makes the policies; ICM doesn?t make the policies. We don?t set the rules. So we cannot change the rules to suit our profit motive. "
excerpt from:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5176620.html
"Under his proposal, submitted last week to the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), .xxx domain names would be sold for $70
to $75 each. Child pornography would be verboten, but pretty much anything
else would be permissible, Lawley said. "Apart from child pornography, which
is completely illegal, we're really not in the content-monitoring business."
Instead, Lawley and his partners are in the business to make money. A report
from Reuters Business Insight in February 2003 calculated that sex
represented two-thirds of all online content revenue in 2001, and that it
had ballooned to a $2.5 billion industry since then. Lawley estimates that
25 percent of all Internet search queries are related to sex and that over a
million adult domain names exist. Owning the rights to sell pieces of .xxx
real estate, he concluded, would be a perfect way to make money off of
consumers' insatiable appetite for online raunch and ribaldry."
Fight the .XXX!