Exactly what i think !!!

But don't worry, something else will come out soon :(

They really really want to control the net and i ain't talking about Icann only

Now we need a list of supporters so we know who not to do business with

good to hear that people have still brains at the right places

this is fucking great news! going to drink some beer and celebrate :D

good news to wake up to :thumbsup

Wooohooo great news!!!

The details are finally on the ICANN website.

http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolut...m#_Toc36876524

Defeated...and no recourse is possible. ICM is down and out with nowhere left to go.

hahahahaha... nice

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

And all this thanks to polish_aristrocrat :)

Great news ! :banana :kisskiss :wetkiss :bowdown

That's what we need to hear!


Mr. Romance

Makes for a nice Friday morning.

not bad!!! :)

great news :)

hahaha
i'm thinking about those that pre-bought all those xxx domains....

Excellent news. :) Never doubted it.

:Graucho

I am so happy! Great news.

GREAT way to start off the weekend! Cheers!:banana

I read the minutes, is this the section that means that they cannot come back with this again

"Accordingly, it is resolved (07.__) that the Proposed Agreement with ICM concerning the .XXX sTLD is rejected and the application request for a delegation of the .XXX sTLD is hereby denied. "

I have not read minutes of when it came up before, so I was not sure.

This is great news, and those of you that have kept hammering the boards to keep us informed and to get us involved deserve a round of applause.

Kudos!

Well, they can eat a dick anyway. I'm rubbing mine right now, as a matter of fact.

I had a strong feeling it would be shot down in the end.


Btw, I'm not psychic or anything. :D

It was just a bad idea proposed by people who only see what they want to see as far as adult on the web is concerned. People with an agenda. I was fairly confident that once all the actual facts were presented that cooler (and hopefully more intelligent) heads would prevail.

great news

Good News! For now!

I love it :)

Do we need some celebration?

http://f-30.com/images/nelson.jpg


:thumbsup fucking awesome news :drinkup

Hooray!!!

finally we can put this piece of shit thing to rest.. I think they need to focus on making a kids safe domain .kids, and police that area instead..

anyhow.. thank god.. and those in the industry who I wont point out that gained to make a lot of money off of .xxx shame on you.

The best news for our industry EVER! *cartwheels and cheers*

the wicked witch is finally dead!

A big thanks to everyone that voiced their opinion to ICANN

Well, here is the audio stream I recorded last night. Took me a bit to rip it off the DAT tape and normalize the audio. It is uncut and exactly as they spoke it.

.XXX was defeated 9-5 with Dr. Tomey abstaining from the vote. If you remember correctly he is the one responsible for even bringing this to ICANN in not so many words.

CLICK HERE FOR .XXX DEFEATED AUDIO STREAM - ICANN VOTES NO ON .XXX - CLICK HERE

Here is the .zip file.

CLICK HERE FOR .XXX DEFEATED AUDIO STREAM ZIP FILE- ICANN VOTES NO ON .XXX - CLICK HERE

This were public meetings in Lisbon.

*NOTE* I've parked this on my goofballing server, so it may be a little slow. Its a good listen.

Have a great day.

Now we just need to find out who the 26 "supporters" were so that people can make decisions on who they do business with.

no one will tell me. :(

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS

Another link on CNN :)


http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/interne...?eref=rss_tech

Great friday morning news, let's smoke some weed

"It was not immediately clear if ICM would revise its proposal again, abandon the bid or perhaps appeal the decision or take action through the courts."


From the AP story

ICM cannot revise or even think of resubmitting the proposal this round which means it will be a few years (average) or 18 months I guess until they get a shot at it again, if they choose so, which if you listen to icann's comments from each panel member carefully, would be futile. the bottom line is icann says it will not be responsible nor undertake the duties of policing the content of the tld, nor will it allow an agency like IFFOR which is obviously a bedfellow of ICM monitor tlds as such.

there were many many other things that they brought up that ICM would have a very very difficult time getting them to change their mind on. Things that you can't throw money at.

Check out the stream. Focus on it, because at points with all the professional meeting mumbo jumbo, it gets complicated and dry, but its worth the listen.