ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain

stalebread writes "Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet." From the article: "In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain. The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet."

Comments

'bout time!

[Just Some Guy]

Good! This was a bad idea from the very beginning, and I'm glad it finally got put to rest. It never filled any real demand. Instead, the only purpose it served was to make certain pro-censorship groups feel like Something Was Being Done without actually doing anything useful.

Good riddance to .xxx. And please take .museum and .jobs with it, would you?