.XXX Voted Down...again

[Gerry]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17868186/

Agency votes against '.xxx' domain for porn
Guideline setters reject plan due to tricky business of content regulation

 

[StockDoctor]

Guideline setters reject plan due to tricky business of content regulation

That's just an excuse. The commies and the registrars that profit more by maintaining coms hold over adult material didn't want the competition. Combine that with Bush misguided influence again.

 

[acronym007]

Goodness man, Bush has no clue what's going over at ICANN. LOL. .xxx is all politics and money. I think the problem is what's the use for it, we all the know the potenial use but you can't require .com's to switch so it's just more porn space. I hate porn so I wish they would use it and require all porn sites to move over. Then we parents have a shot at protecting our kids with the browsers we use, current technolgy would allow us to block all .xxx which is a good option for all that choose it, no choice is lost. Cheers,

Acro

 

[Theo]

4 years, 3200 dead US soldiers and $412 Billion dollars later - Bush is worried about people's choice for sexual material.

 

[DomainsInc]

Goodness man, Bush has no clue what's going over at ICANN. LOL. .xxx is all politics and money. I think the problem is what's the use for it, we all the know the potenial use but you can't require .com's to switch so it's just more porn space. I hate porn so I wish they would use it and require all porn sites to move over. Then we parents have a shot at protecting our kids with the browsers we use, current technolgy would allow us to block all .xxx which is a good option for all that choose it, no choice is lost. Cheers,

Acro

You're not too bright are you? Do you think the united states is the world? There will never be a time where every country will adpot a law that will state all adult materials must be on .xxx. Also some countries have a very vast difference of opinion on what is adult material and what is not. Xxx is useless when it comes to blocking. There will always be porn sites on .com,nets, ect. ICANN doesn't want to be policing content and there are just too many issues with this extention. For example, if all adult material was forced to be on xxx then the .com owners would have to the right to own the .xxx version of their .coms. With every other tld this isn't an issue because no one is forced to do business only on a certain tld.

Not to mention at 75 dollars per domain its total extortion. As someone who would of had to fork out at least 15k just to get the xxx version of my .coms (if i would even be able to get them since so many huge corps with huge pockets would be buying up every intelligable name and no average person would really stand a chance) I am happy it didn't pass.

Bottom line in my opinion, is if you think xxx is good idea because of blocking, well those who are proactive with blocking already use blocking software, and those who don't, still won't do anything about it. And those sites who don't submit their sites to blocking software or other such tactics would never use .xxx. There will always be countries and hosts/registars would would host such things, just like spam, viruses and the like.

That's just an excuse. The commies and the registrars that profit more by maintaining coms hold over adult material didn't want the competition. Combine that with Bush misguided influence again.

The adult industry doesn't want it either.

 

[acronym007]

You're not too bright are you? Do you think the united states is the world? There will never be a time where every country will adpot a law that will state all adult materials must be on .xxx. Also some countries have a very vast difference of opinion on what is adult material and what is not. Xxx is useless when it comes to blocking. There will always be porn sites on .com,nets, ect. ICANN doesn't want to be policing content and there are just too many issues with this extention. For example, if all adult material was forced to be on xxx then the .com owners would have to the right to own the .xxx version of their .coms. With every other tld this isn't an issue because no one is forced to do business only on a certain tld.

Not to mention at 75 dollars per domain its total extortion. As someone who would of had to fork out at least 15k just to get the xxx version of my .coms (if i would even be able to get them since so many huge corps with huge pockets would be buying up every intelligable name and no average person would really stand a chance) I am happy it didn't pass.

Bottom line in my opinion, is if you think xxx is good idea because of blocking, well those who are proactive with blocking already use blocking software, and those who don't, still won't do anything about it. And those sites who don't submit their sites to blocking software or other such tactics would never use .xxx. There will always be countries and hosts/registars would would host such things, just like spam, viruses and the like.

Not to bright, someday I will be as smart as you. Hopefully. It's called an opinion and even dumb people like me have one.

 

[DomainsInc]

Not to bright, someday I will be as smart as you. Hopefully. It's called an opinion and even dumb people like me have one.

I apoligize for that comment but it just seems so many people are totally uneducated about this extention.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

Alot of adult webmasters are saying no to .xxx extensions, including me...

 

[Gerry]

My take on this is how many times will the same issue keep coming up, wasting time, wasting money...even the US congress wasted a tremendous amount of time and money on this issue. It was struck down and then brought up again?

In the meantime, ICANN't can not even take care of itself or monitor its own business dealings or registrars. Registrars ripping people off and going under and ICANN turning a bllind eye to all of this. Seems the only time ICANN got involved with RegFly was way too late in the game and when ICANN wanted payment. Meanwhile, ignoring all the complaints from customers.

Not to mention the no-bid awarding the .com to Verisign who immediately announced a 7% increase in fees.

Do we need an XXX? Who knows. Do we need 256 extensions?

 

[GAMEFINEST]

They are wasting time and money trying to get .xxx approved, it will not ever get approved, .xxx has very bad rep in the adult community, they should focus on other things like the war, healthcare which is just rising up the a$$, the lower and middle class, and medicare part D which is on crack, and why bush cant speak clearly....and ....the list goes on forever...

 

[acronym007]

I apoligize for that comment but it just seems so many people are totally uneducated about this extention.

Thanks for the apology that was a classy move and I appreciate it. I know some of these topics spur many emotions as well. Have a great weekend. Cheers,

Acro

 

[katherine]

.xxx is one TLD we can live without IMO. Just like most of the recent 'creations' BTW

 

[RatherGood]

My take on this is how many times will the same issue keep coming up, wasting time, wasting money...even the US congress wasted a tremendous amount of time and money on this issue. It was struck down and then brought up again?

I find it highly suspicious that 2 random "entrepreneurs" no one has ever heard of managed to get 3 votes out of ICANN on this application. There is no way these clowns could have pulled this off and kept it alive for so long without the help of a lot of low people in high places.

In the meantime, ICANN't can not even take care of itself or monitor its own business dealings or registrars. Registrars ripping people off and going under and ICANN turning a bllind eye to all of this. Seems the only time ICANN got involved with RegFly was way too late in the game and when ICANN wanted payment. Meanwhile, ignoring all the complaints from customers.

Not to mention the no-bid awarding the .com to Verisign who immediately announced a 7% increase in fees.

Fortunate timing in regards to the Registerfly lawsuits. ICANN is about to get a lot more scrutinty and lawsuits than they can handle. I don't think they would want the fight that would have come with approving .XXX.

 

[Gerry]

Fortunate timing in regards to the Registerfly lawsuits. ICANN is about to get a lot more scrutinty and lawsuits than they can handle. I don't think they would want the fight that would have come with approving .XXX.

I have to agree. This may or may not be a good thing to outsiders looking in (non-domainers) who are contemplating investing into the domain market.

I can not see any government regulating domains but standards need to be established regrading the conduct of the oversight. Reading some of the things that had been going on for years and the mounting complaints levied against RegFly, it appears ICANN was neither here nor there as long as the checks kept coming in.

 

[RatherGood]

I have to agree. This may or may not be a good thing to outsiders looking in (non-domainers) who are contemplating investing into the domain market.

I'm sure religious wingnuts and theocratic lunatics are disapointed that they lost a chance to shove adult content into a ghetto.

Serious domainers probablly noticed that this would have paved the way for stripping domain owners and website operators of their rights. The decision is a good thing for the internet in general.

The pros would never outweight the cons since no one (domainer or not) ever stood a chance of obtaining any desirable .XXX name.

I can not see any government regulating domains but standards need to be established regrading the conduct of the oversight. Reading some of the things that had been going on for years and the mounting complaints levied against RegFly, it appears ICANN was neither here nor there as long as the checks kept coming in.

Like I said, ICANN is about to get a lot of unwanted scrutiny over Regfly and when they wind up in court they can't start hiding everything from the public with a "private meeting".