Could the .xxx porn domain still have an outside chance of coming to fruition?
My colleague Kevin Murphy wrote the piece below, but I’ve posted it here because it seems to suggest that the .xxx porn domain idea may have legs yet, and I know how much interest there is in this topic right now…
Porn Domain Firm Sues US Government
By Kevin Murphy
ICM Registry LLC, the company behind the proposed .xxx internet porn domain, will today sue two departments of the US government for access to documents it claims show the US pressured ICANN into rejecting the domain.
The Florida-based startup will sue the Department of Commerce and the Department of State to get them to release documents that they redacted when they responded to a Freedom Of Information Act request that ICM filed last year.
The suit is expected to allege that the documents released to ICM so far show that the US “exerted undue political influence on ICANN’s consideration of the .xxx domain application”, and that the redactions were unlawful under FOIA.
Continue reading Kevin’s piece here.
