Xxx tld public comments open

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#1

The process is moving on, and once again is at a PUBLIC COMMENT stage. IF you really care about preventing this TLD from coming into reality, now is your chance to REGISTER YOUR OBJECTIONS.

You can view this proposal at ICANN WEBSITE

You can [SIZE=4]SEND YOUR OBJECTION BY EMAIL HERE[/SIZE]

It is IMPORTANT that you take the five minutes or so, to clearly let ICANN know that the Adult Industry DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS, despite the claims by Stuart Lawley.

The email address to register your objection is:

[SIZE=4][email protected][/SIZE]

#2

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Email sent.

#3

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IF YOU ARE SENDING AN EMAIL

Remember, that a CONFIRMATION EMAIL will be sent, and if YOU DO NOT CONFIRM YOUR ORIGINAL EMAIL, your voice will NOT BE HEARD.

It can take time too, over an hour before I got my request to confirm the email submission.

As of now, comments IN FAVOR OF THIS XXX TLD are in the majority. :bang:

#4

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Come on, people, don’t rely on others to do your work. Every voice needs to be heard on this issue. Let’s kill this thing.

#5

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Please register your objections. This is important. We can’t have people out their trying to create TLD ghetto’s.

#6

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Email sent, just waiting for a confirmation link.

#7

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Confirmed and email sent.

#8

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Recieved the following email from I presume the guy trying to push it through:

ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX

Dear Bjorn,

As you may be aware, there have been some exciting developments on the progress of .XXX which is now nearing completion. On August 24th 2010, ICANN published a Revised Proposed Registry Agreement with ICM to be designated as the Registry Operator for a .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain (.XXX),.

The Draft Contract is open to public comment for 30 days, until 23rd September. We would appreciate it if you would submit a comment to ICANN. To make things easy, you can just click on the link and we will post the comment below on your behalf.

Click here to post a comment to ICANN in support of .XXX

By Clicking on the link above, 'Post a comment to ICANN in support of .XXX", you accept that ICM Registry LLC, will forward the text below, along with your email address, which will NOT be published, to the ICANN comment board as detailed in the link on the foot of this page.

Dear ICANN,

As a member of the Sponsored Community for the dot-xxx top-level domain I urge you to execute the Registry Agreement as soon as possible and let registration of .XXX names begin.

If you wish to submit a more personalized message you can do so here. As ever, please feel free to contact ICM Registry with any queries you may have. We thank you for your continued interest and will continue to provide timely updates as the process continues.

ICANN’s announcement regarding the status of the ICM application can be found at:

ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX.

Should you wish to be removed from our mailing list please see the link below.

Sincerely,
Stuart Lawley
President
ICM Registry LLC
[email protected]

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Yeah that’s the person alright.

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Which should give everyone WHO HAS NOT COMMENTED, a kick to get out there, and send in YOUR OBJECTION TO XXX TLD. He’s determined to get it passed, and ONLY IF WE send a strong enough signal, that we oppose this MONEY GRAB, will we end this.

[SIZE=4]SEND IN YOUR COMMENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE[/SIZE]
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mailto:[email protected]

#11

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Come on people. It takes 5 minutes of your life, then the click of a link to confirm. This TLD could fuck us royally down the road. Let’s squash it now while we can!

#12

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I submitted a comment back in August, against, of course.

#13

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It looks like the vast majority of comments are now AGAINST .XXX. Keep up the good work!

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Republished with permission.

The Truth and What Really Matters…Or, How not to be a tool.

This is about how webmasters are being used as tools and played for fools.

Consider the following:

179,630 names submitted at an estimated cost of $60 each is $10,777,800.00 being removed from our businesses and pocketed by ICM without any guaranteed new customers for any adult business. Do you hear that giant sucking sound??? That is the money being removed from your wallets because this money represents your existing profits. Your cost of doing business is not going to be reduced by one red cent. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

If the FSC’s arguments contained in our letter to ICANN on 9/8/2010 are " a variety of erroneous statements are repeated accusations that have been debated and refuted several times" and FSC’s “claims were inaccurate, unsupportable, untimely, and irrelevant when first made, and remain so today,” then why did ICM bother to respond as quickly as it did? The truth is that FSC’s requests are to the point, timely, and show the weak link in ICM’s claims. Every comment submitted in support of FSC and against ICM is another chink in ICM’s claims. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

If the deal was a done deal and there was to be no more consideration from the public, why would ICANN request 30 days of public input? The TRUTH is they are still considering whether ICM currently has the support that they alleged in their application for the sTLD. THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE SPONSORED COMMUNITY AND YOUR COMMENTS IN SUPPORT OF FSC AND OPPOSING ICM DEMONSTRATE THAT LACK OF SUPPORT. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

ICM’s claim that Adult Webmasters need for more information concerning the “.XXX TLD, ICM Registry, or IFFOR is patently absurd” illustrates his total lack of respect for our request for full transparency of the process. Do you really think ICM will be more transparent when they are in total control? This is what the FSC asked for:

  1. The list of the IFFOR Board members;
  2. The list of proposed members of the Policy Council;
  3. IFFOR’s Business Plan/Financials;
  4. Business Plan/Financials Years 1-5 utilizing 125,000 Initial Registrations;
  5. The list of .XXX sTLD pre-registrants who have been identified to ICANN;
  6. ICM’s Proof of Sponsorship Community Support as submitted to ICANN.

HELL, ICM won’t even tell us who has been chosen to sit on IFFOR, the body that will be setting the policies and procedures that we will have to live by. I’d be afraid, very afraid. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

Friday, I received an email from ICM requesting my support for ICM position. I feel sure that anyone who registered a domain with ICM received a similar email. Again, if the comments of the sponsored community are irrelevant, why did ICM send emails to everybody they could? Because, the deal isn’t done and ICM’s contract is not nailed down. The fat lady hasn’t sung. ICM is trying to hustle support for his application and he knows how important the sponsored community’s support is to the success of his pending application. THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE SPONSORED COMMUNITY AND YOUR COMMENTS IN SUPPORT OF FSC AND OPPOSING ICM DEMONSTRATE THAT LACK OF SUPPORT. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

ICM is using the oldest trick in the political book on the adult community…if you say something false loud enough, if you repeat it enough times, if you get your supporters to repeat what you are saying and stay on topic…you can get people to believe it is true. “I am not a crook”, “There are the weapons of mass destruction”, “Mission accomplished”, etc. This tactic has been used to wear down the adult community’s enthusiasm for fighting this issue. ICM’s message that it is a done deal is a classic example of such a tactic. If you fall for the bullshit, your resistance is weakened and you can be manipulated for ICM’s gain. The end goal is to dishearten our community to the point that you feel it is useless to respond and they can win by default. THIS IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

I could go on and on…but; the TRUTH is that this is the final round of comments and you need to find the strength and resolution within yourselves to post your comments one more time. I’d suggest you copy and paste your old comments, my comments, or FSC’s comments into the email and sent it.

It will take you less than 5 minutes. Is your five minutes worth $10 million dollars? It is to ICM if they can stop you from sending that message. Just think about it.

#15

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 13, 2010
Contact: Diane Duke
[email protected]

FSC Issues Call to Action for .XXX Comments

CANOGA PARK, Calif. — Free Speech Coalition has issued a Call to Action for industry members to submit commentary to Internet domain regulator ICANN, to voice their opposition to the proposed .XXX sTLD. The Call to Action will be posted on the FSC website, as well as on industry media outlets and message boards.

Industry stakeholders are offered two options for submitting their comments.

They can choose to submit their own comments to ICANN; the Call to Action suggests six issues of concern that stakeholders may comment on, and are encouraged to do so during the public comment period that ends on Sept 23.

The second option is to follow a link to a short, two-question survey endorsing statements of opposition to the proposed .XXX sTLD. FSC will compile and submit the data collected from the survey to ICANN.

The Call to Action reads, in its entirety:

FSC Issues a Call-to-Action for the Adult Online Community

ICANN has posted the Revised Proposed Registry Agreement and Due Diligence Documentation for public comment on the ICANN website. FSC has responded to the Board with a letter of requests and has filed a Documentary Information Disclosure Policy for additional information.

We need your help! FSC is launching an industry-wide call-to-action. It is imperative that you speak up now!

ICANN’s .XXX current comment period closes Thursday, September 23rd so ACT NOW!

There are two ways in which adult industry professionals can be counted on the public forum:

  1. Click on the link below and respond to the statements of opposition. FSC will compile the data and report it to ICANN:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B6YZULW6R

  1. Or better yet, PLEASE write your own statement of opposition to ICM’s proposed .XXX sTLD. Below are some issues you may want to stress. Comments can be posted on:

[email protected]

Public Comment Suggestions

Make sure that you mention that you are a professional member of the adult online community-the party most impacted by the ICANN Board’s decision. Write to the Board about any of a number of issues as demonstrated below.

Let the Board know that you are concerned…

… that ICM is pushing unnecessarily for a “responsible” global online community when the adult entertainment community already has an entity through which Internet publishers and others can self-identify as a responsible global online adult entertain¬ment community through the Free Speech Coalition and its Code of Ethics.

… with companies that have pre-registered .XXX domain names but are in opposition to a .XXX sTLD. By ICM’s own definition those companies do not qualify for a .XXX sTLD because they do not voluntarily agree to the .XXX sTLD and thus believe that ICM’s proposed .XXX sTLD would be detrimental to their business.

… with the lack of transparency surrounding ICM’s submissions in the omission of the names of IFFOR Board members and Policy Council members who will develop regulations for the .XXX online industry.

… that adult businesses would be required to agree to comply with “IFFOR Policies and Best Practices Guidelines” that have yet to be created by boards and councils which have yet to be revealed.

… that information provided for public comment is insufficient. Members of the adult entertainment community require more information about the application in order to provide the appropriate level of feedback to the ICANN Board for it to make an informed decision.

… that if additional information is provided, the community most impacted by .XXX, the adult online community will not have sufficient time to respond and therefore request that the public comment period be extended 30 days after additional information that has been requested has been supplied.

Thank you. Your time and effort are greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or require additional information contact [email protected] .

Comments can be posted on:

[email protected]

Remember…. ICANNN’s .XXX current comment period closes Thursday, September 23 so act now!

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Quick and easy link to post your objection provided by FSC:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B6YZULW6R

#17

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Needs a bump…

#18

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email sent

#19

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Got until Thursday this week to submit your comment!