I got a message from Richard Sexton http://bit.ly/cCVFRO who corrected some errors in your story. According to Sexton the .XXX TLD was proposed and rejected in 2000. You might want to check that. Also I had a look in my archives at the history behind .XXX. .XXX has been around since the 1996. It was first proposed to Jon Postel in 1995 by the American Information Network. But it was Eugene Kashpureff who was the first to launch .XXX in the Alternic Root. Shortly after Kashpureff hacked the Internic web site he had a falling out with his partner Jason Hendeles. They went to court and the court awarded title to the .XXX TLD to Jason. He then transferred his interests in the TLD to the ICM Registry. Here is an excerpt from the Postel 96 file also known as the "The IANA's File of iTLD Requests" published by Jon Postel on 5 December 1996. .XXX FORM 22 Sep 1995 18:29:12 American Information Network < nc@ai.net> .XXX MAIL 19 Jul 1996 19:00:06 Jason Itzler <jason@netrunner.net> .XXX FORM 31 Jul 1996 19:50:11 Jan K. Masek <JanKmasek@aol.com> .XXX LIST 12 Jul 1996 20:13:43 Eugene Kashpureff < ekashp@mrls.seanet.com> .XXX LIST 15 Jul 1996 12:28:40 Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> .XXX LIST 1 Aug 1996 14:07:27 <http://www.alternic.net> Hope that little bit of history helps. regards joe baptista On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:04 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Longtime advocate and NARALO member John Levine has written a concise and
elequent piece< http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100508_the_real_issue_about_icann_and_xxx/
on the real problems behind ICANN's handling of .XXX. I don't think I've read anything that I could more recommend to someone working within ICANN's policy process.
Don't miss Mike Roberts' response, which does a fine job of showing everyting that's wrong with ICANN's mindset. Process? What process?
R's, John
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