"British porn domain mastermind (STUART LAWLEY from ICM) is fighting US Government"

[polish_aristocrat]

new article regarding our .XXX battle

The British man behind the proposed .xxx internet domain believes that the US Government has intervened to thwart his plans. Stuart Lawley is fighting a court battle to retrieve the documents he says would prove his case.

Lawley made dotcom millions with web design and hosting firm Oneview.net which was floated then sold before the first internet crash, and has bank rolled the seven-year proposal to have a top level domain for pornography.

His firm ICM Registry was awarded the right to operate the domain but contractual wrangling is more about the conservative Bush administration's connections to the religious right than they are about the contract itself, Lawley told technology podcast OUT-LAW Radio.

"We were hoping to sign our contract which was a standard contract that most other registries have, until the United States Government intervened," said Lawley, who lives in Florida. "They had been lobbied very heavily by the Christian conservative groups here in the United States."

Lawley says that the US Department of Commerce's view of the proposal changed, which filtered down to ICANN. He said that he obtained some government documents under freedom of information legislation outlining parts of his case but that crucial elements were redacted, which means they were blanked out.

"We received documentation that showed clearly what had gone on. Some of the documents were sent in redacted form and we have litigation in the District of Columbia courts against the United States Department of Commerce and the United States Department of State to try and force them to turn over these documents that we allege show the level of interference in the ICANN process," said Lawley.

"The documents show that up to a certain date the Department of Commerce understood our application and were mildly approving of it," said Lawley. "After several high level meetings between Christian conservative leaders and administration and Department of Commerce officials the tone very much changed overnight into 'how do we stop this' and 'how do we kill it'. That's the nature of the documents we are trying to get more detail on."

Lawley says that the .xxx domain is a good idea because it introduces some self-regulation into a $5 billion industry that does not currently police itself. His proposal mandates that anyone registering a .xxx domain must tag their content so that it is labelled as pornographic or adult material.

Even if the .xxx site merely points to a .com or .net domain, the content to which it ultimately points must be tagged, he said. He also said that $10 of the $60 annual registration fee will go to a foundation set up by his company to fund child protection online.

http://www.out-law.com/page-7824

[baddog]

His eyes must be brown he is so full of crap.

[polish_aristocrat]

one and only bump 4 this

[polish_aristocrat]

next ICANN meeting - 13 March btw

[tony286]

fuck him,he really has no idea about what he is talking about.

[FetishWeb]

Originally Posted by tony404

fuck him,he really has no idea about what he is talking about.

Sure he does. He's just a pathological liar.

[DaddyHalbucks]

It's all out of the goodness of his heart. It's all for the children.













Yea, right.

[JD]

SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!!


oh and make me fucking wicked rich too

[leedsfan]

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

He also said that $10 of the $60 annual registration fee will go to a foundation set up by his company to fund child protection online.http://www.out-law.com/page-7824

while the other $50 from EVERY domain registration goes into his bank account. Nice argument. $60 a domain....we have over active 350 domains. Thats over $20,000 from me alone.

I don't doubt he's funded the whole thing, he stands to make a fucking fortune. I'm sure accountability (to his bank manager) is right up there in his thought process.

[pornguy]

amazing. Because I thought that WE were the ones that was stopping it from going through.

[will76]

"We were hoping to sign our contract which was a standard contract that most other registries have, until the United States Government intervened," said Lawley, who lives in Florida. "

Hey the govt got one right (although their intentions were not good).


BTW, Lawley, get the fuck out, go move back to England .

[will76]

Originally Posted by leedsfan

$60 a domain....we have over active 350 domains. Thats over $20,000 from me alone.
.

every year too.....

[RawAlex]

This story is the best proof that this fucking asshole is in it entirely to rip off adult webmasters, and it has nothing to do with protecting anything. If he was trying to "protect the kids" he would give $60 of the $70 registration to something good, instead of making an obscene 1000% profit on every registration.

Fucking asshole.