SPONSORS: Mail your affiliates to oppose .xxx, please!
 

We at gaybucks have just sent an email to all of our affiliates asking them to email ICANN in opposition to .xxx. While there are many industry people who read GFY and the many other boards, there are a lot of other affiliates who never read the boards and may not be aware of the seriousness of the .xxx proposal and the urgent timeframe for responses.

I would encourage every sponsor to email their affiliates and ask them to write to ICANN in opposition. ICANN is very carefully looking at what percentage of the adult community is opposed vs supporting, and if we don't all do everything we can, we will get saddled with this situation, which will be disastrous.

Here's the text of what we sent. Please feel free to use it, modify it, change it as needed to send to your affiliates.

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For those of you who are unaware, the .xxx domain proposal is coming up for a vote on March 9th. PLEASE, if you value your business, take 5 or 10 minutes NOW and send a short note opposing .xxx to ICANN at [email protected]. ICANN cannot approve a request if there is not support from the industry, so hearing from those of us in the industry is absolutely vital to the defeat of this proposal.

We must, as an industry, voice our opposition to .xxx NOW. While ICM, who would run the registry and make millions on it, says it will be voluntary, they are also telling those opposed to porn that .xxx will prevent kids from accessing adult content and help to regulate it. Obviously, those two statements are in opposition to each other.

If passed, .xxx will likely have the effect of creating an adult "ghetto" that would make it easy for cities, states, or countries to restrict or ban access to adult content. Additionally, .xxx domains will cost more than $60 PER YEAR. It is also conceivable that, even if laws do not pass limiting porn to .xxx, Visa could demand that all adult content be served from a .xxx domain.

As for protecting kids from porn, .xxx will do no such thing. Even if adult content is restricted to .xxx, there will still be numerous small, off brand domains from tiny countries that allow adult content, thereby completely defeating the purpose.

The positive goals of .xxx (preventing access by children and those who don't wish to view adult content) can be achieved by a combination of a .kids domain, voluntary listing of adult sites with existing content filters, and parental involvement.

PLEASE, if you care about the future of your business, take 5 minutes and send the email (Once sent, you must also look for the confirmation email and respond to that as well.)

Thanks very much for taking the time to read and respond.

Bump

We've already heard back from a couple dozen of our affiliates who are sending emails, and the mailing just went out a little while ago. Several of our affiliates run programs of their own and have told me they are emailing their own list. If we get enough sponsors doing this, there could be a cascade effect and we can flood ICANN with emails.

This can REALLY make a difference. Those of you with affiliate programs, particularly larger programs, PLEASE take the 10 minutes and mail your affiliates and ask them to help.

Also, IMPORTANT NOTE: the email address above is incorrect; the correct one is [email protected]

So....let me know if I understood....if the sponsors are sending an email to ICANN in opposition this site will have to win?

what's up with these .xxx threads bumps today?

.xxx got officially rejected March 30th :thumbsup

thats what i thought.. keep up people.. i remeber i think it was AIR3K posting to the live stream of the announcement

April Fool's Day!!... oh wait... we're in May. Wtf?