This time both sides of debate make use of “form” comments.
The comment period for “Revised Proposed Registry Agreement for .XXX sTLD and Due Diligence Documentation” at ICANN ends Thursday. Much like last time, there are hundreds of comments submitted through online forms that basically says the same thing.
But this time .xxx backer ICM Registry has decided two can play at that game. The company has added a form to its web site at icmregistry.com/forms.
This has prompted one commentor, who goes by the name Naughty Traffic, to cry afoul:
SCAM BOGUS POSTS: “Please approve the .XXX Registry Agreement”
Any post with ICM’s form mail titled: “Please approve the .XXX Registry
Agreement” should be discounted.
Sure, Mr. Naughty. We can discount those. But then we should also discount the many form letters with the headline “I run adult websites and I do NOT want the .xxx tld!”
Not surprisingly, few of the comments actually address the material for which ICANN is requesting comments.
Kevin Murphy says
ICM used form letters last time too.
What’s interesting is googling the names of supporters on both sides.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Kevin – didn’t realize that. I guess it was hard to find in the many other form letters 🙂
I’d google the names of the supporters, but my wife might walk in on my while I’m surfing their web sites
Landon White says
THE CREDIBILITY OF ICANN
IS REALLY ON THE LINE…
if they allow icregistry to unduly
influence them with underhanded tactics, regarding the .XXX application.
ICANN can expect the same tactics from every FAILED future TLD applicant in THE FUTURE!
ICANN can not allow icmregistry to set a application model where
the applicant is setting the precedent to
influence an ICANN administrative decision.
Also…If ICANN allows icmregistry to simply throw motions at ICANN against there failed attempts to reverse the two(2)
prior application denials…then
ICANN can expect the same legal harrasment tactics from every FAILED
TLD applicant in THE FUTURE!
The Bogus Forms Input sent from the icmregistry,demonstrates how they have no regard for ICANN and for the good of the Internet online community.
They have tried from the very begriming to unduly spin and turn a well intended mature ICANN decision.
Stuart Lawley says
I agree ICANN’s Credibility is on the line.
Thats why they decided to respect the decision of the Independent Review Panel, their own challenge process, after a rigorous, nearly two year process, including thousands of pages of evidence, a one week “trial” with nine witnesses, overseen by three internationally respected jurists.
No legal harassment, no lawsuits, just invoking ICANN’s own dispute resolution processes.
ICANN will likely come out of this as a more credible , accountable body.
roddy says
i really dont think established sites need to worry, if your a good site and offer people what they want why would they go elsewhere ?
Christiaan says
You guys are missing one essential detail:
Those mails with “Please approve the .XXX Registry Agreement” in the subject were sent from the ICM Registry’s servers.
The mails with “I run adult websites and I do NOT want the .xxx tld!” were sent by individual webmasters.
Christiaan says
“Not surprisingly, few of the comments actually address the material for which ICANN is requesting comments.”
The matter of community support still has to be settled. On the 25th of June ICANN said to the BBC that “the next step would be talks with ICM Registry to ensure that it still had sufficient backing from the adult industry to justify its creation.”
So emails from adult webmasters saying they don’t approve of the .xxx proposal, are relevant.