ICANN Opens Public Comment for Proposed .XXX Contract

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — ICANN posted on its website today the proposed .XXX contract, as well as documentation submitted by ICM Registry as part of its due diligence, for public comment.

The information is posted for a 30-day public comment period, which started at noon today and continues until Sept. 23 at 11:59 a.m..

Comments can be submitted to xxx-revised-icm-agreement@icann.org and viewed here.

"FSC plans to sift through the application thoroughly and provide feedback to the industry about ICM’s application as well as the suggested next steps for the industry and FSC in blocking ICM’s .XXX sTLD," FSC Executive Director Diane Duke told XBIZ. "FSC members and the industry can expect additional information from FSC by the week’s end."

Duke added, "It is important for people in the industry to understand that this document now goes up for public comment. This is the one more step in a process. It is far from over and certainly not a done deal."

The revised proposed registry agreement was submitted by ICM Registry after negotiations with ICANN staff.

The agreement has not been considered or approved by the ICANN board. The new agreement is a revision from the proposed agreement considered by the board in March 2007.

Last June, ICANN’s board of directors voted to move forward with ICM Registry’s .XXX proposal.

ICANN gave conditional approval to .XXX, the controversial sponsored top-level Internet domain, 10 years after it was first proposed by ICM Registry’s Stuart Lawley.

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