[90228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Hebert)
Thu May 11 13:40:50 2006
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:22 -0400
From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net>
Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0605111026590.2694@sokol.elan.net>
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Why?
If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere
else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there.
william(at)elan.net wrote:
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>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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--
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