Fw: .xxx TLD

["Mike Murray" <graphtechnologies@xxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mike Murray 
To: xxx-tld-agreement@xxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: .xxx TLD


Dear Sir

 

I am opposed to the establishment of an .xxx top-level domain for the following 
reasons:

 

The .xxx will only direct kids in the right direction to see all the porn they 
want. This in no way will stop or prevent kids from seeing or accessing porn, 
nor will it stop child pornography; but rather line the pockets of the 
individuals out to make a buck of the backs of hard working webmasters. These 
individuals have no concern about the welfare of anyone involved; all they care 
about is squeezing a buck out of anyone they can for a cause that will not 
change a thing.

 

Preventing kids and adults from unwittingly seeing the "bad stuff" is a great 
goal, but the execution of using an .xxx extension is not the answer.

ICM Registry and IFFOR have used the "child protection" and "child pornography" 
marketing points as the basis for the existence of .XXX but have provided no 
tangible means on how an .XXX extension will actually prevent kids from seeing 
the "bad stuff" or how .XXX will stop child pornography.

A "voluntary" TLD serves only the purposes of ICM Registry who is seeking to 
charge a wholesale around $60 per domain/year, with third-party registrars 
marking up the price to around $75/domain.

This law is meant to destroy businesses that have spent many years marketing 
their.com domains. This will virtually put all businesses in this industry in 
jeopardy and slowly grind their income to a halt.

I say we need to do the right thing and create a .KIDS TLD instead of .XXX. 

Instating this new law would be a crime in so many ways and a violation of 
Constitutional rights as well.

 

It has been rumored that ICM Registry has already used its projected ownership 
of .xxx to approach the owners of popular sexually-oriented .com
and .net URLs to offer them the same URL in .xxx at a premium price, with the 
implication that if the .com URL owner refuses the deal, ICM will offer that 
same URL to the .com's competitor. These are only some of the objections to the 
establishment of .xxx, and I
hope ICANN will take this seriously and refuse to authorize an .xxx TLD.



Sincerely

Mike Murray

President

Laughing Loon Productions, L.L.C.