XBIZ NEWS: ICANN Declines to Approve .XXX
 

XBIZ NEWS: ICANN Declines to Approve .XXX

At its board meeting this morning, ICANN?s board of directors voted to postpone the decision to enter into a contract with ICM for a .XXX sponsored top level domain.

http://www.xbiz.com/news/128350

Yayyyyyyyyyy

great news!

They will try again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

powerfist.

Thank you Diane, Jeffrey, Reed, Tom and the FSC for a job well done.

that will make a lot of people very happy

they invested too much money to give up

What? Again? :1orglaugh

Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! WoooooHoooooooo!!!!!

and that's why we can't trust anything they say or trust them to keep any of the 'promises' they've made.

All they did was delay things ... looks like the ICANN board wants to negotiate w/ GAC. This does NOT mean that .XXX is beaten, so don't celebrate yet. This is just a procedural delay.

YES, they were pretty sure of them selfes in Vienna :2 cents:

This made my day!

Very nice news!

of course they did. they have to wait for it to go before the GAC again. the GAC will deny him again for not having the sponsored communities backing. this guy is ruthless though. he won't stop. even when he's denied, he will start over.

Fingers crossed it will be perm gone soon!

I have to agree !!

this is really a great news :) for all of us

I'd like to second that.



.

Over 12 million according to this article.





.

stuart is banking on everyone in adult now thinking that he's been defeated so he can pull some shit under the guise of darkness. its like in the movies when you watch a street fight and you think that the guy is knocked out conscious and you turn you back on him and he gets up and smacks you with a pipe and KOs you.

i'd hope no one falls for this. it's not over.

Glad to see Jefferey Douglas in the fight.

I had a long conversation with him before I entered this space :)

The FSC board elections are coming up again... I know Jeffrey is safe, but still, everyone make sure to vote for Jeffrey and for Reed Lee. I was on the board, and I promise you, they are the FSC's greatest assets other than Diane of course.

Hey, Connor......

Woops I forgot you were up for re-election too Sid, my bad! Sid is DEFINITELY on the side of the good guys, another board member who NEEDS to return.

I have a question for FSC.

What do you intend to do now that ICANN is determined to approve .XXX and the only thing holding them up is that little thing called support from the sponsored community, and the blessing of the GAC?

This whole thing wreaks of a movie plot at this point. It's apparent that Lawley has obviously gotten to ICANN and now I would assume the next move from him is to "make a friend" inside GAC somehow, or potentially have his ICANN ally now try to lobby the GAC in his favor financially and or politically somehow. Everyone likes money.

How does the FSC intend to thwart the attempts of ICM to get to the GAC and corrupt the process that is apparently not working in his favor this whole time?

It's brutally obvious by the comments during the commenting periods opened by ICANN that he does not have the support of the industry, and that all early registrations were accomplished by opportunists, domaineers, and scared .com TLD holders. The GAC saw right through it the first time.

Who's going to get bought off this time around? What can the FSC do to help thwart this, or at least be able to blow the whistle on some corruption?

This whole thing is stinking like a dead corpse at this point.

FYI, thanks for fighting the fight so far. This has been going on for over 5 years now.

Thanks.

I hope the FSC will continue to monitor the .XXX gTLD's progress (or lack of progress) and offer input and express concerns when and where appropriate.

Actually, it's an sTLD... and that's a big part of the problem. ;-)

title says declines, post says postpones.... big difference, which is it ?

yeah looks like another typical post on here where people fudge the title on purpose for views. Declines to approve XXX sounds pretty final, but if all they did was "postpone" a decision then that isn't anything great, the shit is still out there and not over with yet.

i like icann

good news!!!

yessssssssssssssssssssssss

they invested too much money to give up.
This does NOT mean that .XXX is beaten, so don't celebrate yet.
This is just a procedural delay.

Noted :thumbsup

Thanks for the info!

Great news. Completely unexpected. Nice to see some of the old guard still around.

This is killing me. Why do people keep posting these "good news" comments, when all that happened was a delay. I hope that it get defeated, but NOTHING was decided, and in fact ICANN used language saying they intend to enter into an agreement for .XXX with ICM.

People, NOTHING DEFINITIVE has happened yet. if ICANN can get the GAC to drop its objections, then it's over and .XXX will happen. So the only thing that I can see standing in the way is the fact that there's no measurable industry support.

DO NOT DROP YOUR GUARD.

Let me spell it out for ya...

http://apprising.org/wp-content/uplo...eep-Astray.jpg

because of the miss leading title. Very few people actually read around here. They see the title say " ICAAN Declines to Approve .XXX" and it sounds like it is over. Miss leading title + stupid people = the answer you looking for. :2 cents:

Two significantly different quotes from different parties:

versus

Hard to follow unless you are privy to the politics behind all this which most of us are not. Which is more telling the truth here minus the spin? Can they really go ahead and do it if the ICANN G.A.C. is against it?

Alternate sources needed...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...1a9defc8c6dab4

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/12/10...ew-tlds-today/

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._approval.html

At least SOMEONE is paying attention, whoever you are. Thanks for the additional links.

Great news! :)

OMG... lol

I do find some encouragement in the fact that Lawley has gone from calling the idea of referring the question back to GAC "unnecessary" (prior to today's meeting) to saying that referring it back to the GAC is what he "hoped for" (after the meeting).

If doublespeak were an Olympic event, Lawley would have more gold medals to hang around his neck than does Michael Phelps.

If .XXX is eventually approved, I will be very, very interested to see how ICM/IFFOR go about making good on statements like:

So.... no UGC content sites allowed, I presume? I further assume that in order to provide this "reassurance" about such things, IFFOR will be proactively auditing the 2257 records of .XXX domain-holders? And they must be planning to do some measure of credit card transaction risk management that is greater than that currently offered by Paycom, CCBill and other IPSPs? Awesome!

Those things mentioned above must be part of the plan, right? Otherwise, how could they provide any greater assurance that surfers will be "protected" than the current environment offers?

The real answer is, of course, they can't reasonably offer the assurances that they have promised..... Period.

Great, so, we have a peace of mind with the .XXX for a year or two...

Or maybe they have their own billing companies picked out, websites that use .XXX will be required to use one of their "approved" billing companies?

What exactly would stop me from setting up a .XXX, processing a bunch of fraudulent charges, and then even if they cut me off... coming up with a new identity and starting all over?

And why would ANYONE from the adult industry support .XXX where there are all kinds of things that could go wrong, all kinds of ways they could lose customers and/or control over their own business, and pretty much no measurable upside to being on a .XXX domain? The good news is, I know of like 2 people who have voiced public support of .XXX, both seems to be in the game with ICM, and that does NOT make up a community by any means ... so I'd expect that G.A.C. might still have some concerns about whether the requirements have REALLY been met. Let's hope.

:1orglaugh

This is getting comical... lol... no, we have "peace of mind" until about February. lol

Top notch news.
:pimp