Proposed top-level domain choice

[mkienenb@xxxxxxxxx]

Maurice Kienenberger
69 Coleman Ave
Elmira, NY 14905-1149


April 2, 2010

ICANN Options
 


 ICANN Options:

Intentionally misspelled filter-avoiding word:  pro rnography

As you should already know, formally condoning pro rnography  is not going 
to solve the problems it creates, nor will it remove such sites from other 
domain spaces, as domain name choice is completely unregulated.

All it is going to do is to encourage more such sites by giving it a 
formal recognition.   It is astounding to me that the small proposed pool 
of first round of creating specific non-sponsored non-organizational 
top-level domains includes pro rnography!

The argument that "they're out there anyway so we may as well segregate 
and legitimize them" makes as much sense as the original plan to segregate 
and legitimize spam.    And just as those initiatives failed to do 
anything about spam, so the new top-level pro rnography will be 
ineffective to clean up the current top-level domain spaces.  I still get 
around 50 spams a day, a couple of which generally sneak through Google's 
spam filters a week, and more than half of them bypass the spam 
legitimization processes.

Regards,


Maurice Kienenberger
607-732-3512