[90239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Dambier)
Thu May 11 15:49:17 2006
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:48:50 +0200
From: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Reply-To: peter@peter-dambier.de
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0605111026590.2694@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
So ICANN did come to their senses finally and prevented another collission
in balkan namespace :)
; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any XXX @TLD2.NEWDOTNET.NET
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34062
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;XXX. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
XXX. 7200 IN NS tld1.newdotnet.net.
XXX. 7200 IN NS tld2.newdotnet.net.
XXX. 86400 IN SOA ns0.newdotnet.net. hostmaster.new.net. 1147374001 86400 300 15000000 600
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
XXX. 7200 IN NS tld1.newdotnet.net.
XXX. 7200 IN NS tld2.newdotnet.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
tld1.newdotnet.net. 604800 IN A 66.151.57.201
tld2.newdotnet.net. 604800 IN A 64.211.63.138
;; Query time: 232 msec
;; SERVER: 64.211.63.138#53(TLD2.NEWDOTNET.NET)
;; WHEN: Thu May 11 21:40:08 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 187
Thankyou ICANN for your continued support of alternative roots.
Cheers
Peter and Karin Dambier
william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
>
> 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--
> 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
> DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com
>
>
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