Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain

An anonymous reader writes "An application for the.xxx domain was first submitted six years ago. ICANN approved the application in 2005, and entered into an agreement with ICM Registry regarding technical and commercial terms. However, ICANN reversed its decision in March 2007. An independent review panel was called to look into why ICANN had changed its mind, and concluded that the body had been under pressure from the US government. Now the registry that submitted that application, ICM Registry, is pushing for .xxx to be approved. The company has argued that the .xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."

Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Mounts.

RFC 3514 redux

[Todd Knarr]

Yes, because this will work just as well as RFC 3514 - The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header [ietf.org].

Re:Yay ignorance.

[eln]

Because kneejerk Puritans would go crazy because it would look like someone was actually condoning porn, or at least recognizing its right to exist. We can't have that sort of thing, especially not in America where we practice our bizarre fetishes behind closed doors while condemning anyone who shares them. The only acceptable methods of sexual gratification are intercourse for the purpose of bearing children and the occasional leaked celebrity sex tape.

Re:Yay ignorance.

[Locke2005]

Will the excuse "it was an email sent by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator' [slashdot.org] still work?

Re:Yay ignorance.

[Anonymous Coward]

...as long as they come.

Indeed.

Headline

[just_another_sean]

Was it really necessary to use the words pressure and mount in this headline? The subject matter is provocative enough on its own!

Re:Retarded bible belt morons

[Anonymous Coward]

WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO STOP TREATING SEX AS SPECIAL?

The moment a middle-aged lady is being anally fisted while receiving six simultaneous facial cumshots from African-Americans in a Calvin Klein commercial. Oh, you weren't talking about porn? Sorry.

Re:Yay ignorance.

[russotto]

While the porn industry also opposed it for other reasons, the ones that actually caused ICANN to reverse it were the Puritanical minority.

The porn industry should be used to strange bedfellows.

Re:Yay ignorance.

[Maestro485]

...loosing something precious every time they have sex!

Ironically, that sentence still makes sense with the typo.

Re:Yay ignorance.

[nitehawk214]

While it can be viewed as a form of prostitution, marrying rich men is legal as well, yet nobody complains about that.

I will speak up for all the non-rich men out here... We are complaining about it.