NO to .xxx

[<email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a member of the adult Internet industry, I am writing to express my 
opposition to the creation of a .XXX top-level domain (TLD), and to urge ICANN 
to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the Commerce Department and 
rescind its earlier decision to approve ICM Registry's application to establish 
and run the above-mentioned TLD.

I believe that there is no compelling reason to establish such a TLD other than 
to make a few people wealthy at the expense of many, and that any benefits that 
may accrue to webmasters who purchase .XXX domains will be far outweighed by 
the likelihood that governmental and non-governmental entities, both domestic 
and foreign, will impose unacceptable restrictions on lawful constitutional 
speech. As a responsible member of the adult entertainment community, I am also 
very concerned that I will not have a sufficient enough voice on the IFFOR 
Board of Directors, which will be setting all policies for the TLD, and that 
these policies will be established and enforced by people who may not have the 
best interests of this industry at heart, and may in fact be personally hostile 
to it. 

I believe that there is a far superior solution to the problem of making 
material unsuited to viewing by minors unavailable to them. Rather than herding 
protected speech into a 'virtual ghetto', a content-positive .KIDS TLD should 
be created where children can find child-friendly websites, making it far 
easier for parents to filter .KIDS in than it will be for them to filter adult 
content out. In this scenario, there is no risk of censorship, and minors will 
have a safe place of their own in which to experience the gifts of the 
Internet. 

Again, I respectfully request that you take this opportunity to let this 
application lapse without any further action.