Sunday, April 01, 2007

Proposal for .xxx rejected.

A proposal for new domain extension .xxx has been voted out by the member of the net's addressing system after the seventh year of the idea that have been proposed. The backers of .xxx domain were disappointed by the decision. The idea was first came forward in 2001 and it had get approval in 2005 by ICANN. It is the third time that that the ICANN has rejected a bid for a domain.Board members said they were concerned that approval would put the agency into the position of a content regulator.
The final approval for the domain was scheduled to take place in December 2005 but this was delayed until May 2006 when the proposal was abruptly dropped over worries about how sites signing up to use .xxx would be policed.Read more in here.

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