ICANN's General Counsel: .XXX Will Get the Green Light
 

The bell has tolled....

http://www.xbiz.com/news/122139

".XXX would be dedicated exclusively to adult content and could be used by some states as a means to force all unwanted or illegal content to migrate to that sTLD that could then be easily monitored or filtered."

I wonder who will determine what defines "unwanted" and "illegal" content?

Well, at least money won VS the religious idiots this time.

I have a feeling that kind of thing won't be happening here in the US. If any state decided to create this rule there would be a legal challenge and I would imagine it would be struck down. I guess you can never know for sure, but the supreme court did rule that filtering software is an adequate form of protection for keeping kids away from porn.

Good point sire.

Great just another domain(s) to filter for the Australian gov.

Filter any domain with .xxx in it. That would be easy for them.

So hurry up and register your .xxx extension everyone!

Your site could be the first one filtered off the net!

Don't miss out!

Let the trademark war begin.

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Even if it is approved, you guys can still win - just don't register any domains with .xxx. You win - Lawley loses. Seems simple to me.

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dont register domains, that simple. will never be mandated so fuck that guy

Dammit, should I already prepare my wallet? I bet they will put crazy reg fee not to mention preorder applications, like with .co ($300) or even more... only big whales will gain a pretty penny... most won't even touch the top ones.

My consistent comment on dot xxx from day one remains the same.
Stuart Lawley is a blood sucking maggot.

(tell us how you really feel, Colin!)

p.s.
here is the more detailed report from Tom Hymes who is in Brussels for this:
http://business.avn.com/articles/Bru...ay-401239.html

Read carefully, looking for Greg Dumas comment to the board.

et tu, Brute?

From a new TLD perspective, given there's no value in anything besides adult terms or ones that could be used as adult (dating), and the adult industry has been going downhill lately, I'm not sure there's all that many domains worth getting from a speculation perspective. Kind of funny - all that wait on the extension will likely pretty much kill whatever success it could have had.

snakes in the grass.

if you have the .xxx you damn sure better have the .com as well or its a wash as far as advertising :2 cents:

Hell Colin.... why not put it right here. :Oh crap

Wouldn't really expect much of a comment. He pretty well laid it out there. :2 cents:

They should just force adult off .coms and to .orgs anyways since porn doesn't make enough money to warrant a .com anymore :D

The best ones will sell for a lot of money, and it'll be a speculators dream for a little while. Easy money. Good names are all going to get registered by someone, it might as well be you.

flu to brussles to say that

how did that greg dumas tool get all that out of his mouth with lawley's cock wedged in there so tight?

Tom Hymes with excellent coverage there

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I doubt most of adult WM will be giving up their .com's.

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What happens now though. Will anybody with a good adult used .com have some sort of claim over the exact same .xxx?

And if the .com isn't used but the .net is ...

The ICANN Board voted with two abstentions to send the matter to the GAC for evaluation. The Board members are very aware of the lack of industry support for the .XXX and some felt forced into making the decision. The issue is still a long way from being resolved.

Mr. Lawley is glad that they didn't outright kill it. I wouldn't spend $60 on a bad investment that is going to be used as an example of industry support for XXX.

if there is profit we will all buy it, but chances are slim.

I do not think that the industry support or not will matter this time around.
:Oh crap

the registars are going to make some serious bank with the 10's of 1000's of registered domains that will take place the day of the launch ... if it goes thru

somebody will bank big cash on this, internet eat small people

like pananames?

we'll be grabbing our .xxx just for brand reasons, but we're trademarked anyways so we're not worried.

people were saying all along that so called "industry leaders" were involved with that lawley character. there are more i guarantee it. they've shaken your hands at those bro shows and smiled in your face. i never liked that dumas douchebag anyhow. always was a snake.

Yep. There are some well known BROs who have supported XXX all along.

Actually it might well matter, because sponsoring community support is arguably part of the criteria for making sure that ICM's meeting of the eligibility requirements is "current."

In other words, just because ICM provided what was (eventually, retroactively) deemed sufficient evidence of sponsoring community support for their 2005 proposal, it does not necessarily follow that they have what the ICANN board would consider sufficient support now, 5 years later.

I'm fairly certain there will be another round of public comment on this issue; the real questions are what will ICANN seek comment on, and will it include requiring ICM to demonstrate current sponsoring community support, and/or supply a less laughable definition of "sponsoring community" than the one they've most recently endorsed - which essentially boiled down to "the sponsoring community = people who want to register .XXX domains."

Yes, but without owners and people who matter standing up and saying so, they will get the support fauxed in there now.

People here have given up.

Yeah, sadly you probably right about that.

Too bad we can not all afford to fly to Belgium for an overnighter.

We can put BD on the case.

And the guy still claims to have our support :( F*cking pos liar.


No to the .XXX tld!!!!

What?
 

Am I crazy or what? They are trying to tell me to buy domain for 60 bucks and that domain will be behind filter for sure, so I will have less traffic to deal with?

why would I do that?

the best thing would be doing nothing, now if some idiot "buys" your domain(s) with the .xxx extension just sue the fuck out of him/them.
this is my humble opinion, since if you own the .com extension you are entitled to have the .xxx as well, correct me if I am wrong.
now .......... this .xxx is a failure, if it reaches 50K at June 2011, we are all doomed since YOU did fall for this scam.

I have heard through Stuart Lawley, They allow those that purchased the first of that domain the allowance. So if anyone rushed out to purchase a good domain including a .com it shouldnt matter now especially if you prebooked the .xxx He says "that we only allowed names registered before a certain date to pre- reserve, i think it was some time in 2006".

If you owned blablabla.co.uk or blablabla.com in 05 and then someone purchased blablabla.com or .co.uk in 09 the 05 gets the pre booking...

Some people are going to be losing out here but its down to the one that thought of the domain first.

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This is the worst thing that could ever happen. A sort of a "ghetto" created. Fuck.xxx names, it will be a nightmare trust me.