Domain Registration Related News
Feds Urge Delay for .XXX Domain
August 2005
Acknowledging "unprecedented" opposition, the U.S. government has
asked the internet's key oversight agency to delay approval of a new
".xxx" domain name designed as a virtual red-light district.
Michael D. Gallagher, assistant secretary for communications and
information at the Commerce Department, stopped short of urging its
rejection, but he called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers to "ensure the best interests of the internet
community as a whole are fully considered."
The department received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails expressing
concerns about the impact of pornography on families and children and
objecting to setting aside a domain suffix for it, he said.
"The volume of correspondence opposed to creation of a .xxx TLD
(domain name) is unprecedented," Gallagher wrote to Vinton Cerf,
ICANN's chairman.
Gallagher said ICANN should take more time to evaluate those concerns.
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