The ICM Registry who is seeking the the .XXX extension just issued a press release to respond to the decision of the ICANN board this morning in which they said the “intend” to enter into a contract with ICM to run the registry, but just not yet
Here is the press release:
“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has stated that it intends to contract with ICM Registry for the use of .XXX as a top level domain name (TLD).
ICM has been campaigning for .XXX to be recognized as a TLD since 2003, with the aim of creating a clearly labeled place where adult entertainment can be accessed.
The contract will grant .XXX the same rights as .com, .net, .co.uk and other TLDs, with the only difference being that as a sponsored TLD, .XXX domain names will only be available to the adult entertainment industry. The contract will require anyone registering a .XXX name to complete an application process endorsed and overseen by the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR).
Authorization of .XXX as a TLD for the adult entertainment industry carries multiple benefits. For consumers who wish to browse adult entertainment sites, it will provide reassurance that they are protected from risk around identity theft, credit card fraud and child abuse images. It will also provide consumers who wish to avoid adult entertainment sites the opportunity to filter out unwanted .XXX content.
For providers of adult entertainment content online, the .XXX TLD also comes with many benefits, not least that the creation of a self-regulated environment will mean that qualified surfers are more likely to convert to a profitable relationship, creating highly attractive long-term (and therefore valuable) online ‘real estate’.
Given that ICANN has approved .XXX and now intends to enter into a contract with ICM, ICM will offer current intellectual property owners the opportunity to reserve relevant domain names before going to the open market, enabling them to protect their brand names and intellectual property rights within the .XXX space.
Clyde Beattie, a Director at the not-for-profit organization IFFOR, comments, “The landmark decision is a great step forward for the online entertainment industry. Providing a place where consumers can enjoy adult entertainment within a secure and protected framework will, in our opinion, allow the industry to flourish. ICM has for a long time championed an enlightened approach to the online adult entertainment industry, in which stakeholders can finally have full confidence in responsibly delivered adult entertainment, and it’s fantastic that this approach has finally been recognized by ICANN.”
Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry, adds, “The introduction of .XXX will offer the online adult entertainment industry a whole host of new opportunities to further develop their business. Since 2003 we have been campaigning for this moment, and it is testament to the commitment of the team at ICM and IFFOR.
“For consumers, the contract will allow them to enjoy adult entertainment in an environment that operates to well publicized and fully articulated standards, and where they can make payments safely and securely. The knock-on benefit for the adult industry, beyond the fact that consumers are going to be more prepared to make purchases when they know that they will be secure, is that the consumer will also know that .XXX sites are scanned daily for malware, thereby being safer to visit., leading to greater traffic… It’s a win-win situation.”
ICANN IS A WHORE:
Clyde Beattie, a Director at the not-for-profit organization IFFOR, comments,
Providing a place where consumers can enjoy adult entertainment within a secure and protected framework will, in our opinion, allow the smut industry to flourish
MORE CHILD PORN?
The contract will require anyone registering a .XXX name to complete an application process endorsed and overseen by the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR)
AKA: Your Friends of Big Brother
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AT THIS TIME : ICANN “only” intends to approve …
they can still “Show Mature Judgement” and deny AND SAVE
THE EMBARRASSMENT THEY WOULD CREATE WORLD WIDE!
The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR)
aka the “Hardon Police” per say will monitor THE INTERNET
for your good. lol
Godl Rush, Sun Rush, Cum Rush
just another chance to throw away your money
.Co like money .. and make ICANN fatter
Just another Johhny Cum Lately 🙂
““intend” to enter into a contract with ICM to run the registry, but just not yet”
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ICM would be wise to have a HUGE presence in VEGAS at the UNITED STATES Consumer Electronics Show in early January 2011 – There is also a parallel Adult Component
Putting U.S. Faces out there in VEGAS with the recent “endorsements” will help
The U.S. Government (GAC) will not be fooled by some Canadian, British, Irish, Swiss Corporate Shell Game
Buying Endorsements at Trade Shows is what U.S. companies do.
Lady Ga Ga showed up last year as Polaroid’s new spokesperson.
By the way – Just like TEAM PENSKE you should consider TEAM BERKINS
Give Team GoDaddy a run for their money
get your SuperBowl minute
Totally ridiculous, I don’t know how they can claim it will protect people from coming across unwanted porn, I have a porn website on a .com and I have no intention whatsoever to move it anywhere else.
ICM should be ashamed of themselves lying and giving parents a false sense of security, some might now think that all porn will be confined to .xxx and allow their children surf freely on .coms thinking they can not come across porn unless it is on a .xxx.
If anything .xxx will just double up the amount of porn available. Nothing but a money spinner providing no service as big porn brands will have to register one to protect their trademarks.
I know of no porn webmaster who plans on giving up their .com/.net/etc and you can’t force that by law as it would be challenged in Court using the free speech First amendment.
the .XXX story is becoming longer than LOST 🙂
“the .XXX story is becoming longer than LOST”
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It started in earnest in 1995
Many people in and around ICANN would NOT have their .JOBS (no pun intended) without the “.XXX Story”
Some think it is the Anti-TLD
Some think it is the Anti-TLD
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Yes, ICANN PROMOTES PORN….
It would be a GRAND ole good excuse for
Major Countries to Rebuke ICANN …
and BLOCK ALL American and Affiliate Websites as decadent and perverse ….
Some of these MAJOR COUNTRIES will meet with ICANN
in Feb, 2011 to protest and tell them just that ….
EVERY New TLD applicant will SUE ICANN
if NOT APPROVED after all they will teach them
how to WIN! …
.XXX The Anti-Tryst
Some think it is the Anti-TLD
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.WIKI “Scientists claim antimatter is the costliest material to make.[27] In 2006, Gerald Smith estimated $250 million could produce 10 milligrams of positrons[28] (equivalent to $25 billion per gram); and in 1999 NASA gave a figure of $62.5 trillion per gram of antihydrogen.” .WIKI
Antimatter production with existing technology fails to survive a cost-benefit analysis.
So how much money has been spent by whomever is seeking to be approved for .xxx so far?
Do people think they will be unable to recoup their costs?
So how much money has been spent by whomever is seeking to be approved for .xxx so far?
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As with Anti-Matter and the .XXX Anti-TLD one can not accurately estimate. You have the actual cost, but also the costs that can not be measured.
The .XXX Anti-TLD may become a TLD that ICANN (and the GAC) ADMIT EXISTS (a huge leap) but which people can not easily see, use, access, etc.
Getting the ICANN and ISOC Eco.System to ADMIT something exists (besides their small meatspace community) is a Major Step for CyberSpace Netizens.
CyberSpace Netizens are NOT included in the ICANN Mult-Stakeholder MeatSpace community. That is similar to American Indians (on the reservation)
having no say in what Washington DC decides for them. Washington can admit
they exist (like people in remote parts of Alaska) but not have any real proof.
For ICANN to become intertwined with the ITU and the United Nations they
have to begin to admit that the world (and CyberSpace) are larger than their tiny group of insiders. For the ISOC and IETF that is like the AMA admitting
there are other doctors and medical communities (which may be better?).
The arrogance of the I* Eco.System for decades does not allow any admissions of anything better.
The arrogance of the I* Eco.System for decades has not allowed any admissions of anything better.
ICANN and the GAC may now be in a position similar to the .UFO TLD.
ICANN and the GAC may now be willing to admit that the .UFO TLD exists but they have no contact with the aliens who run it.
It is VERY IMPORTANT that ICANN and the GAC not proceed down a path where they “launch” TLDs into their small MeatSpace world and TRASH THEM.
The arrogance of the I* Eco.System for decades has not allowed any admissions of anything better. CyberSpace Netizens can only observe the MeatSpace EGOS that are bigger than the Solar System. For many MeatSpace people in the I*
Eco.System they seek to kill off CyberSpace Netizens to attempt to define that
they do not exist.
It Seeks Overall Control
if they wait other decades to start the .xxx TLD, it will be useless to buy them for p0rn sites, because our species will be able to make sex telepathically 🙂
“if they wait other decades to start the .xxx TLD”
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The .XXX TLD already exists.
ICANN and the GAC seem to be coming to a joint agreement to at least acknowledge that. THAT is a huge leap for the arrogant MeatSpace I* Eco.System.
You might note that in many (most?) IETF documents ONLY I* documents are referenced. The IEEE, ITU and work done by CyberSpace Netizens simply does NOT EXIST.
Maybe if we give the indigenous tribes their very own geographical cc-like tld that will help?
I mean look at the wonders that cctld’s have done for all the world’s nations and territories. We’re liberating Colombians from relative poverty with every .co reg fee or inflated auction price. When we stream video from .tv, we can be sure our friends at DemandMedia will teach us something about Tuvalu and Tuvaluans. When we click a bit.ly-shortened URL we’re being educated about Libyan culture. The list just goes one and on. Behind many minor cctld’s, there’s an “entrepreneurial” story.
Pre-ICANN, in the Postel era, these extensions were part of an organizational scheme, an ordered, geographic namespace. They were not intended to be about profits. Or were they? In any event, look what’s happened.
Maybe we should stop pretending that tld’s of themselves are some wonderful way to organise worldwide communication and information distribution by geographic location. Or in this case by subject matter (pornography).
tld’s are about making room for more names, any names. Because names means profits. More names, more profits. History has shown that selling more names under more extensions is going to increase entropy in an already chaotic system, not order.
Strings and extensions can have multiple meanings, in multiple languages.
“The .XXX TLD already exists.”
who sells them?
ps – a special GoDaddy’s section full of hot GoDaddy’s girls is perfect to sell the .xxx 🙂
How hard will be for a Country to block an entire extension/GTLD? vs Selected Sites?
Chaves already working on legislation…
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xxx