I’m not sure when this was launched, but ICM Registry are promoting a “founders” program similar in style to that run by CoInternet in the run up to the .co launch. The program seems to be aimed primarily at existing Adult webmasters, though I could have simply misread the information.
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ICANN Ignoring Deadlines
ICANN set a deadline for public comments on .xxx of May 10th 2010.However, for reasons that they have not explained so far, the comment period is still wide open. As of 10am this morning 12778 comments had been received. Unfortunately, as has been covered elsewhere, a very large portion of the comments are automated submissions… Continue reading ICANN Ignoring Deadlines
ICANN and XXX – Stuck In An Infinite Loop or A Maze?
The ICANN board meeting in Nairobi led to a number of surprises. EOI was killed off, “vertical integration” was shunted back to a GNSO workgroup to “sort it out”, while the much awaited “decision” on .xxx morphed into this: 15. Consideration of the Independent Review Panel Declaration – ICM Registry v. ICANN Whereas, on 6… Continue reading ICANN and XXX – Stuck In An Infinite Loop or A Maze?
XXX Saga Continues
Image via Wikipedia Sex and the internet.Put the two together and you are bound to find an interesting story.While the saga surrounding sex.com took a new twist in the last couple of days, with the current owners going dotbomb, the .xxx story also took an interesting turn. ICM Registry LLC applied to ICANN to run… Continue reading XXX Saga Continues
ICM Registry (.xxx) Independent Review Documents Available
The independent review of the ICM Registry bid for .xxx was held towards the end of September in Washington and the documents from this are now available online I’d love to summarise them, but there is a very large volume of information (hundreds of pages) If you have the time to read over them all… Continue reading ICM Registry (.xxx) Independent Review Documents Available
Eu – One year on – Dangerous Predictions
The .eu namespace has been operational for almost a year at this point. In the intervening period we’ve seen a lot of very upset people, as Eurid’s management of both Sunrise and Landrush led to thousands of domains being warehoused. During the same year we also saw the launch of .mobi, which is aimed at… Continue reading Eu – One year on – Dangerous Predictions