According to xBiz.com, Morality in Media has called on federal authorities to probe ICM Registry after the operator of the .XXX TLD received initial approval for the .porn gTLD.
“The anti-porn group, led by Patrick Trueman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity unit, said that the establishment of a .porn domain will increase the spread of online porn.”
“Trueman, who has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the registry because it may be in violation of federal obscenity laws, says his group is angered over the way .xxx has evolved in its first 20 months.”
“”The .xxx domain advocates said these domains would solve the Internet’s porn problem with pornography companies leaving the .com domain and relocating on .xxx, making the rest of the Internet porn-free,” Trueman said. “But porn companies did not give up their .com sites and instead opened additional sites.”
“In addition to the increased amount and deviant nature of pornography that will now be available, ICM Registry stands to make untold millions from the defensive registration of .porn domains by non-porn companies. Schools, bloggers, and individuals will be scammed into buying ‘protection’ on each new porn registry in order to safeguard their good name.”
ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley told XBIZ that he’s taking Trueman’s statements lightly.
“This is nothing new from Morality in Media and we look forward to introducing .porn in the same responsible way that we did with .xxx and the unique grandfathering program we have that allocates the matching .porn name to the .xxx owner is one such example of our responsible approach that has been welcome by industry and general observers alike,” he said.
> Morality in Media has called on federal authorities
> to *probe* ICM Registry
Ha, Freudian slip? In any event, I wonder what dirty little secret(s) Patrick Trueman carries around in his guilty conscience, that he has to take such a notable stand against porn? I have trouble trusting people who have the appearance of being so ‘noble’, especially when it comes to something as natural as sex. I suppose Mr. Trueman has forgotten that a couple of people had to have sex, in order for him to mount his crusade and find fault with it being on the Internet. (Another Freudian slip in there somewhere…)