[ALAC] .xxx

[Vittorio Bertola]

All,

as you might have noticed, .xxx is coming up again, and is under 
discussion in the community and in the Board.

I see more or less two positions - one says that .xxx would just be a 
"money printing machine" for ICM (the registry), and most registrations 
would just be defensive ones, to prevent your name from being associated 
to adult content, so it's better not to create it; the other one says 
that ICANN should just create TLDs and let the market determine whether 
they are successful or not, so let's create it. In addition, we know 
that many governments will be very upset if .xxx is created, partly for 
moral reasons, partly for the risk that their countries and places are 
associated with porn; on the other hand, I could imagine that ICM would 
sue ICANN if it doesn't get the domain.

As a committee, do we have an opinion? I would recommend that we release 
a brief statement on the matter in the next couple of weeks, so that I 
can bring it to the Board.
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