Manwin the company which owns some high traffic adult sites including YouPorn.com, and PornHub.com and operates Playboy.com under license of Playboy, along with another large adult operator, and DigitalPlayground.com just filed a Federal Lawsuit against ICM the company that operates the .XXX Registry and ICANN over the .XXX Top Level Domain ("TLD"). The 44 page suit was filed in the United … [Read more...]
Breaking: Owner Of YouPorn.com Plans To File Suit Against ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust
The ICM Registry has just issued a statement indicating that an anti-trust lawsuit will be filed by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction with the .XXX domain Top Level Domain. Manwin is the company which owns many highly visited adult sites including, YouPorn.com, Brazzers.com, PornHub.com and Xtube.com The statement reads: "Our public relations company alerted us to … [Read more...]
The Opposition To the New gTLD Program Is Looking Like The FSC Vs .XXX More Everyday
Well the news yesterday that 87 "major national and international business associations and companies have joined forces with the ANA (Association of National Advertisers), forming the Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight (CRIDO) to oppose the rollout of ICANN's top-level domain expansion program." The announcement got a lot of press, yet the whole thing seems puzzling to … [Read more...]
The Department of Commerence To Put The IANA Contract Up For Bid
The U.S. Government announced a few days its putting up the contract to run the the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) out for competitive bid starting November 4th and ending December 4th. ""The IANA functions include (1) the coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol parameters; (2) the administration of certain responsibilities associated with the Internet DNS root … [Read more...]
US Department Of Commerce To ICANN: We want “A Clear & Enforced Ethics & Conflict of Interest Policy”
In a September 21st letter sent by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) disclosed that it is “actively exploring how to best meet this requirement” for “a clear and enforced ethics and conflict of interest policy” in the next version of the Internet Assigned … [Read more...]
How Will ICANN Batch The New gTLD Applications? They Don’t Know, Yet
Kurt Pritz of ICANN, spoke today at the NewDomains.org conference when the question was asked; how will ICANN batch or process applications for the new gTLD's? ICANN previously stated that if more than 500 application were received they would process them in batches, and that no more than 1,000 extension would be delegated in any year, so how any application is batched may decide if a … [Read more...]
The New GuideBook Is Out, The New GuideBook Is Out: ICANN Publishes “Final” gTLD Guidebook
Like in the Steve Martin's Movie the Jerk, where he proclaims the new Phonebook are out, the new Phone book are out; The new gTLD Guide Book is finally out. Yes ICANN has finally published the "final" gTLD Guidebook. You can download the English version here (pdf) ICANN has made it clear that the Guide Book will be an ongoing process which will be amended on the go, will be a work in … [Read more...]