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MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Thu May 11 13:30:45 2006
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:30:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:46:40 -0400
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: [IP] ICANN rejects .xxx domain
Begin forwarded message:
As reported in:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=1947950
ICANN has reversed their earlier preliminary approval, and has now
rejected the "dot-xxx" adult materials top-level domain. I applaud
this wise decision by ICANN, which should simultaneously please both
anti-porn and free speech proponents, where opposition to the TLD
has been intense, though for totally disparate reasons.
Nick's AP piece referenced above notes that there are still
Congressional efforts to mandate such a TLD. It is important
to work toward ensuring that these do not gain traction.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, IOIC
- International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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