On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:22:26 +1000, xerxes <xerxes@no-spam> wrote:
>The industry responds to the folks that complain,
>"I never know where to look".
>
>~~~
>The board of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said
>it will begin talks on a prospective contract with ICM Registry Inc. about
>the commercial and technical terms of establishing an ".xxx" domain. It
>could be operating by the end of the year.
>
>Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM, issued a statement saying,
>"Creation of a domain for adult Web sites will help protect children from
>exposure to online pornography." The voluntary .xxx will also "facilitate
>and protect free expression rights -- both for content providers and
>Internet users," Lawley said.
>
>The number of adult Web sites has grown 18-fold over the last six years, he
>added. In an interview with Cnet last year, Lawley said .xxx domain names
>would cost $75.
>
>
><http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BF68AAF7C%2D7C85%2D4EE3%2DBE85%2D0B0EB3CD78D5%7D&siteid=mktw>
>
>http://tinyurl.com/bxxyc
Provided that they then made a ban on porn in the
other domains and enforced it, it would make the
operation of net nannies and corporate porn filters
dead easy, just band those domains.
Deadly Ernest
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:22:26 +1000, xerxes <xerxes@no-spam> wrote:
>Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM, issued a statement saying,
>"Creation of a domain for adult Web sites will help protect children from
>exposure to online pornography."
I think what he really meant to say is that a new tld will generate
lots of revenue.
Dan
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 02:07:11 +1000, Martin Taylor <mjpt57@no-spam>
wrote:
>xerxes said....
>
>> The board of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>> said it will begin talks on a prospective contract with ICM Registry
>> Inc. about the commercial and technical terms of establishing an ".xxx"
>> domain. It could be operating by the end of the year.
>
>WHo gets to make these organisations "king"? That is, what supreme
>authority gets to say who gets to run the internet in this respect?
The government
>> Stuart Lawley, chairman and president of ICM, issued a statement saying,
>
>And who voted this person in as the president?
The rest of the board
