Please do NOT vote to enable the XXX domain

[Victoria French <victoria.french@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am not exactly sure where to post comments about the XXX domain. Our industry 
(the adult) keeps getting press releases that there is a public forum open, but 
there is never any information as to where this forum is. So I am sending to to 
the only address I have found.

I ask as a member of the adult industry to not allow the XXX TLD be passed for 
the following reasons:

1. This is a clear attempt by the requesting registrar to force the entire 
adult industry to purchase domains through them to protect our intellectual 
property rights. Requiring us all to purchase yet another TLD version of our 
names is outrageous.

2. The requesting registrar continually makes statements that our industry 
supports them, when we do not. They are claiming their basis on the number of 
pre-registrations. The fact is that we as a majority DO NOT support this and 
are only pre-registering out of fear of losing our names to others.

3. The requesting registrar claims that it will only allow the purchase of XXX 
domains if THEY IN THEIR SOLE DISCRETION decide the purchasing company is in 
the adult entertainment industry. This company has not affiliation with us and 
has no authority or ability to actually know who is a legit company (by legit I 
mean members of FSC, AVN and XBIZ) and who are pirate sites, not to mention 
they have no understanding how our Affiliate Network sites operate.

4. The requesting registrar claims that it will require us to support an "Adult 
Trade Group" that again has no affiliations with us. The official group we as 
an industry work with is ASACP.org which is also the group that is our liaison 
between us and congress. We have no need to support an organization that has 
had nothing to do with our industry and which we believe is actually owned by 
the registrar itself.

5. The requesting registrar requires us to label our sites under their rules 
and on every page. The labeling of our sites is not up for debate. We have very 
stringent laws required by the US Government under USC 2257 and the registrar 
does not have the ability to change those rules. Under USC 2257 it is illegal 
to add any additional information to the labeling of a site than what is stated 
in the law. Further, not every adult company has nudity displayed on their 
sites. Many of our corporate sites are normal corporate looking websites 
designed for B2B, there is no need for labeling for these sites. Under the 
registrars plans labeling would be required meaning our sites could not get 
through business blocking filters. If we chose not to do this, we risk our 
corporate names being taken by poachers or others.

In every way this company's attempt to get the XXX TLD on the market is nothing 
more than an attack on our businesses. They want to control us under their 
rules. This company has no ties to our industry and has no right to decide how 
our businesses are run or even if we are a "business".

I urge you to talk with AVN, XBIZ and the FSC and find out the real truth 
behind what our industry wants and don't rely on this scam artist.

Please vote NO on XXX.

Thank you for your time.

Victoria French
Metrosharp Corporation.

Parent company to X3 Pictures, Radeon Pictures, Baphomet Entertainment and 
Fluffy D. Bunny Productions.