Friday morning’s ICANN board meeting was quite eventful with the board finally voting on the signing of a contract for .xxx Here’s an interview with Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush about that decision (and other matters):
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ICM Registry Launch Founder Program
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.
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?
ICANN Nairobi Kicks Off This Weekend – So What Is Cooking? .xxx , new TLDs and more
The ICANN meeting in Nairobi starts officially next Monday. However, as is normally the case, by the time Monday rolls around people will already have been working since Saturday morning (if not earlier). All ICANN meetings seem to be surrounded by some bit of controversy and excitement, but the Nairobi meeting is possibly more dramatic… Continue reading ICANN Nairobi Kicks Off This Weekend – So What Is Cooking? .xxx , new TLDs and more
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