ICM responds to Free Speech Coalition.
ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has lashed back at Free Speech Coalition for its latest attempt to delay or kill .xxx.
In a letter to ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate-Thrush, Lawley refutes many of Free Speech Coalition’s (FSC) claims. Lawley says FSC’s claims have long been addressed. He also points out that FSC does not represent the entire adult entertainment industry and is U.S. centric:
…while the Free Speech Coalition is respected as a tireless supporter of First Amendment rights in the United States, it is not and has never been “the†trade association for the global adult entertainment industry. The Board is well aware of this, as it was a topic of discussion between Dr. Twomey and Ms. Duke in the public forum in Lisbon in 2007.
Lawley also reminds Dengate-Thrush that the definition of the sponsored community for .xxx hasn’t change and does not necessarily include the entire online porn industry:
In that application and in all subsequent materials, the sponsored community for .XXX has been consistently defined as online adult entertainment providers and service providers who have voluntarily determined that a system of self-identification would be beneficial and who have come together to develop and to comply with industry best practices.
He also disclosed that only 6,435 out of a total of 179,630 pre-registrations for .xxx have been labeled as “defensive” by the applicants.
Landon White says
Is ICANN indirectly promoting pornography?
It seems like money talks
and nobody walks….xxx is a bad idea.
It’s fair to say that ICANN has tried to
change the attitude of the online community
in that there would be no more backroom deals
and that they are going to be the straight
forward “online agency stewards” of the internet as they are so Privileged to be…
and thus provide a mature business model that can trusted across the board by all.
Then up comes the .xxx issue again, for the third time(3)and with the “Hidden Message” that if you don’t like a ICANN decision just pester,legally harass and throw money around till you get what you want, now i ask you what kind of credence does ICANN again have 2010 allowing a outside enterprise to CHANGE a mature decision that was made in the past,by ICANN when rejecting said same .xxx tld application, and once again ignoring the entire adult industry who protest this infringement of a new growing breed of worlwide unregulated cyber criminals who will now engage upon many more new innocent victums in pornographic exploitation because of a ICANN bureaucratic monetary consideration.
Dirk says
It is true that the FSC is mainly a US group, but it’s not the only group fighting the .xxx proposal. Adult site owners all over the world are against the .xxx tld. Every time ICANN has requested input on the matter, thousands of people active in the adult industry have emailed their objections to the .xxx tld. The ICM keeps ignoring them and always employs the same tactics: tell everyone the issue has been settled or things are irrelevant.
I tell you, things have not been settled. The adult industry does not want the .xxx tld. And if the adult industry doesn’t want the .xxx tld, then there is no market for the .xxx domains and the ICM claims about support and viability are false.
I vote no to the .xxx tld.