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ICANN rejects dot-xxx

http://www.dazereader.com/24001024.htm Smut-mongering libertines and smut-hating prigs alike rejoice: ICANN rejects .xxx domain registry.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has rejected a controversial proposal to create a new .xxx domain suffix for adult Web sites.

ICANN on Friday voted 9-5 to deny an application from ICM Registry, which for the past several years has sought to be the registry for adult-content Web sites.

Unfortunately, the issue isn't dead yet. From the AP story:

Stuart Lawley, ICM's president and chief executive . . . added that ICM would pursue the matter further and when pressed by an Associated Press reporter if that could include a lawsuit against ICANN, Lawley said: "I would go so far as to say likely."

Could ICM simply apply again in a few years? This AVN article makes that sound unlikely.

The round of Top-Level Domain proposals begun in 2004 was completed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' rejection of ICM Registry LLC's proposal to oversee now-defunct dot-xxx, and the organization has "no plans for another round of TLD proposals," according to the chairman of its board of directors.

"My first response [to whether ICANN might consider another dot-xxx proposal in the future] is 'over my dead body,'" ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf said with a laugh during a Friday press conference.

 

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