March 17, 2011
6:44 p.m.
It simply is not any of ICANN's concern what kind of material people may chose to represent with a proposed TLD - that way leads to a giant, bloated, and dangerous ICANN.
It does show that the best thing to do would be to forget about new TLDs, since the track record is abundantly clear that the alleged beneficiaries (not just in .XXX) uniformly don't want them. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly