.xxx registry sues US government

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "ICM Registry LLC, the company behind the proposed .xxx internet porn domain, is to 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."

Comments

Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

I care. I don't care about the .xxx TLD. I think it wouldn't hurt, but it won't help either. But I do care how the decision was made: I want to know if it was independent or if ICANN just executed what the US government demanded. In discussions about control over DNS and the root servers, the US constantly reiterate that ICANN is independent, and even though it is on US soil, it acts without interference from the US government. If there is evidence that the US government pressured ICANN into making a decision that it would have made differently on its own, then it is high time for the rest of the world to establish independent DNS roots.

Re:Why?! This .xxx registry is a big waste of spac

[vertinox]

Secondly, if .xxx sites get registered it'll make it even EASIER for kids to find porn now.

And easier for parents to block.

Well... If they so choose to educate themselves on the matter in order out how to set their router firewall to block all *.xxx connections.

Not that kids have been looking at their parents porn mags and adult video tapes for the past 20 years. Truth be told... Porn never hurt any kids. Uncaring parents too disinterested in the welfare of their kids have.

Teach your kids to be sexual healthy and not sexually repressed.

Otherwise they are going to learn the hard way... You know... Teen pregnancy and STDs.