ICANN To Consider .XXX On Friday

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According to the BBC News , ICANN is going to reconsider the .XXX extension on Friday March 12 at its meeting in Nairobi.

The BBC article quotes a representative of ICANN saying:

There is “no indication what action the ICANN board will take”.

“However, it is unlikely to overturn the decision immediately without consulting other members of Icann and the internet community.”

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. Danny Pryor says

    It’s about time. The Wired news article about ICANN recently addressed this issue and observed that ICANN violated its own policies by caving into the religious types.

    I’m all for good taste, bad taste, and everything in between. I have yet to meet a human, especially myself, capable of anything else. That’s what makes us human. I’ve scoured my share of nasty sites, political sites, shopping sites, music sites, stupid sites, good blogs, bad blogs, and I’ve created them, too.

    So what’s the big deal with a .xxx TLD? There can be no pretending we are a species without a sex drive. Where would humor be without sex? What about the babies, and the birds and the bees?

    That’s enough out of me; I didn’t mean to get so verbose.

  3. my OLPC design says

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    as already said in the past, the porn sites will never use the .xxx domains since they can be easily blocked by filters (and by providers, if a law impose that)

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  4. MHB says

    My

    So if you own porn.com and have millions invested you wouldn’t register porn.xxx to protect your investment?

    Your sure about that?

  6. Cartoonz says

    anyone surfing porn sites on a system that uses filtering is not really a candidate for conversions anyway… so that argument is rather flimsy.

    Actually, when you really think about it… if Google will list these in search results, users are probably more likely to click on a triple X domain, don’t you think?