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Home 08 May 2010 The real issue about ICANN and .XXX ICANN Way back in 2004, ICANN invited applications for a round of new TLDs. They got quite a few. Some were uncontroversial, such as .JOBS for the HR industry. Some were uncontroversial but took a long time, such as .POST which took five years of negotiation, entirely due to the legal peculiarities of the registry being part of the UN. But one was really controversial, .XXX. By 2005, the applicant, ICM registry, had satisfied all the criteria that ICANN set out in the 2004 round to get .XXX approved, and ICANN has been stalling them ever since, including an ICANN board vote against approval in 2007. Most recently, ICM used a reconsideration process specified in ICANN's bylaws to review the board's actions, and the report not surprisingly said that ICM had followed all the rules, and the board had not. Before discussing what the issue with .XXX is, here are some things that the issue isn't. See more ... posted at: 01:46 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/ICANN/dotxxx.trackback

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