[139100] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Sun Mar 27 01:39:13 2011
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
To: "'John Levine'" <johnl@iecc.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110327045654.82924.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:39:05 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:johnl@iecc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:57 AM
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> The growing certainty of an expensive and very embarassing lawsuit if
> they turned ICM down. Despite the clear lack of industry support for
> .XXX, ICM carefully jumped through every hoop, dotted every i, and
> crossed every t in the 2004 application process and the subsequent
> appeal and review processes. I expect the board and staff really
> really would not want to have to answer questions under oath like "who
> did you talk to at the US Department of Commerce about the .XXX
> application and what did you say?" and "why did you vote against .XXX
> when they followed the same rules as the TLDs you voted for?"
Agreed. And ICM made damn well sure that they had the ways and the =
means to wage a considerable and sustained amount of legal pressure by =
selling over a quarter million pre-registrations at $75 each, generating =
over $20M in revenue...
Stefan Fouant
