How Serious is the ICANN Board about .XXX, .SiTE and Other TLDs?
Very serious. 
Last week’s ICANN meeting was much different than any other ICANN meeting the .SiTE team has attended in the past. After attacking several issues of disagreement brought forth by the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) in Brussels on Feb. 28th through March 2nd, the ICANN Board and the GAC resumed their consultations on tough New gTLD / .XXX related issues in San Francisco at the 40th Public International ICANN Meeting.
VeriSign's Chuck Gomes Addresses the ICANN Board at the 40th ICANN International Public Meeting
All while wresting with the issues related to ICM Registry’s proposed top-level domain, .XXX, the board has been charged with implementing a timely launch of the New gTLD program. Though the triple-x top gTLD proposal has been going through the ICANN process for some time now it has often been tied closely with the current New gTLD program.
The ICANN board put its foot down last Friday at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board held in San Francisco, California. By a vote of 9 to 3 the Board voted to move forward with the contract for .XXX, the highly controversial, made-for-adult-content-only top-level domain. The board also adopted a working timeline for completion of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook. The outcome of the ICANN Board meeting sent a message; ICANN wants New gTLDs, and they want them NOW.
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