ICANN Votes Against .xxx
Mar 30, 2007
The Associated Press reports that the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 9-5 against adding the .xxx extension for adult Web sites. It's the third time ICANN has rejected the .xxx suffix, which was first proposed about seven years ago by a Florida-based domain registrar called ICM Registry (which may sue ICANN over today's decision).
According to the AP article in Yahoo! News, "nearly all of the [ICANN] board members who voted against approving the domain said they were concerned about the possibility that ICANN could find itself in the content regulation business." Those who favored adding .xxx claim that ICANN shouldn't let such concerns deter them from adding new suffixes.
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