Porn internet domain name plan revivedBBC News: “A plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult websites will be resurrected three years after it was rejected by internet regulators. The net’s governing body Icann will reconsider the .xxx scheme on 12 March.” Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (2.23.2010) Religion Clause Blog: “In the first ever use of the review panel process, a Panel last week found that ICANN’s board acted improperly in 2007 when, under pressure from the U.S. government and others, it reversed a decision it had reached earlier and refused to allow ICM Registry to introduce a new .xxx top level domain that would identify pornographic website . . . “ (2.23.2010) Guardian: “Judges say plans for a .xxx porn domain – blocked by Icann on moral grounds in 2007 – should be reconsidered.” (10.6.2009) OneNewsNow: “The U.S. has pulled out of its agreement with ICANN, the international organization that makes decisions about the Internet — and that greatly concerns one pro-family attorney . . . ‘There have been some [U.S.] values that had been imposed on the organization that runs the Internet,’ says Pat Trueman, [special counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund]. ‘For example, a few years back the Bush administration weighed in heavily to say that it would not allow a .xxx domain — a pornography domain — to be added to the Internet.’”
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