Two Porn Companies Take ICANN and .xxx Registrar To Court

SharkLaser writes "Two of the largest porn companies on the internet, Manwin and Digital Playground, yesterday sued both ICANN and ICM Registry, which runs the .xxx TLD, over extorting defensive registrations with ICANN's blessing. 'The complaint focuses on ICM's recently concluded "sunrise" period, during which porn companies, for about $200, could apply to own a .xxx address matching their trademark or .com domain.' Schools also felt the same way, and had to reserve domains under their name so that no porn content could be put up on them. The .xxx TLD has also previously been subject to criticism by both religious groups and adult industry, but for different reasons. Religious groups believe the .xxx TLD legitimizes pornography, while the adult industry believes it could lead to censorship."

Comments

Re:Parent is Goatse

[Samantha Wright]

Little-known fact: humanity achieved strong AI almost a decade ago. Unfortunately, we botched its sense of humour. All lazy trolls on the Internet are actually just one super-intelligent perl script.

Re:Religious groups

[EdIII]

Porn doesn't hurt your neighbor in ANY WAY

Ohh, I dunno about that.

I videotaped myself whacking off in the backyard a couple of times and the neighbor got pretty pissed off. Something about how it "ruined" his view from the balcony or some other crap like that.

Other than that I agree with you. Bunch of Quakers out there.

Re:"sunrise fees were excessive"

[stephanruby]

...but a good price to deter squatters and bulk buyer speculators

I vote that we move all ecommerce and technical sites to .xxx since they do seem to have better quality control.

Re:Parent is Goatse

[Mashiki]

Makes sense. If I had a sense of humor, made via perl I'd inflict my misery on everyone too.

Re:just another form of censorship

[PopeRatzo]

Hell if you only wanted to see her in plastic there is plenty of CGI cartoon crap that will give you any celeb in any pose you want.

Citation needed.