.XXX lawsuit against u.s. government stopped

[basschick]

jeez - nobody was for .XXX but here's iCM trying to blame the u.s. government rather than the fact that their proposal didn't have any merit in the eyes of most people including those from ICANN. will these people ever just go away???

"ICM contends that the U.S. government intervened in behind-the-scenes fashion to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reject ICM’s proposal to establish the .XXX domain, and filed a FOIA complaint in May of 2006 in pursuit of documents that would provide proof of the government exerting influence on ICANN.."

http://xbiz.com/news/91318

" "Whatever the boundaries of the misconduct exception, they cannot be as expansive as ICM declares them to be," Robertson said in his ruling. "Absent some showing that consideration of domain name and Internet policy is outside these departments' and agencies' domains - and none has been made - or that they opposed .xxx for nefarious purposes, their action is not misconduct within the meaning of the exception to the deliberative process privilege."

http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=C3F2E423-D99D-B746-5AEB3F6CEDD1173B

[gaybucks_chip]

Let's not forget the "dozens of large adult industry companies" (that ICM would conveniently not name) that were supposedly in support of .xxx. Story goes that there was a backdoor deal between said companies and ICM guaranteeing control of certain lucrative .xxx domain names in exchange for support of the proposal.

I corresponded with Vint Cerf, chair of ICANN, on this issue, and asked specifically for the list of supporting companies, but was told that the list was "confidential" which I find really odd, given it was supposed to be a demonstraton of community support, and given that the ICANN process is supposed to be transparent.

ICM claims to have dumped millions into this, and Lawley seems like one of the most slippery people imaginable. I'm not surprised he's trying every avenue to revive the application. Hopefully this latest setback will finally make him shut up and go away.

[Relentless]

I wrote an article about those cooks a year or two ago. They spent a few hundred thousand dollars trying to launch their idiotic TLD and now they are wasting millions of tax payer's money defending frivolous lawsuits about it. :bang:

[gumdrop]

Sounds, so much like Dr. James Dobson et al.