.xxx was majority rejected by ICANN in Lisbon today. .xxx died a rightful death today, and to those who tried to fuck us failed. a big fuck you to whoever tried to stab the industry with this.

Here is an article quoted from http://blog.domaintools.com by Jay Westerdal - VISIT THEM
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March 29th, 2007

Advanced word at the ICANN meeting tonight in Lisbon just came in. I understand that the board has voted down the Dot XXX proposal tonight. The board decided behind closed doors that the new TLD should not be added to the Internet root. It is a long standing tradition at ICANN to have the secret board meeting the night before the offical board meeting. ICANN skeptics and critics have been calling for more transparency for a long time, but ICANN continues closed meetings. The ICM Registry first applied for the Dot XXX domain back in 2000 and then reapplied in 2004 under the sponsored Top Level Domains (TLD) RFP. In June of 2005, the ICANN board determined that the Dot XXX application met all eligibility criteria for sponsorship and authorized ICANN staff to initiate contractual negotiations with ICM Registry. ICANN Board approved a final version of the agreement on August 1st 2005 and put the agreement on the agenda for a final vote for August 16. Several news stories hit the press and the US government came out against the new Dot XXX. The vote was put on-hold and a huge politcal game played out for several months. According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry, Vint Cerf, the Chairman of the ICANN board, approached him in March of 2006 and said ICANN would still be able to “pull the rabbit out of the hat”. Dr. Cerf indicated he would vote for the agreement and that he thought the board had enough votes to approve the agreement.

In May 2006, a few months and plenty of political pressure later, the board voted the application down 9 to 5. The ICM Registry knew Washington politics played a huge role in changing the vote count from January to May, so they filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Commerce and the State Department requesting all records and emails regarding the Dot XXX proposal. ICM also filed a reconsideration request in May. It took a while to be heard, but the staff came back, lead by Dr. Paul Twomey, and agreed that they would negotiate a new contract in exchange for ICM dropping the reconsideration request, which they did between October 2006 and January 2007. In January 2007, the new contract was posted and tomorrow the vote will be against the Dot XXX contract. The irony of the situation is that Dr. Twomey actual negotiated the contract but he is going to vote against it.

Breaking news also came in tonight while I was writing this story that that a US District Court in Columbia has held the Department of Commerce and the State have failed to justify withholding documents that reflect the US Government’s role in meddling with the ICANN process on Dot XXX. ICM Registry hopes to confirm their suspicions that the US Government interfered and changed the vote of the board. Dr. Vint Cerf went on the record with the Press in Wellington, New Zealand, confirming he was going to vote for it.

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This weekend I took the train down to San Diego. One thing that I always notice when I ride the rails to S.D. is the graffiti along the way when you pass through the urban, industrial areas near Union Station and Downtown Los Angeles. It makes you really appreciate underground art and the potential and talent that some of these kids have. Because the train goes so fast, I was lucky to snap some of the pics that I did along the way.

Check out this pic of the cop mackin on a donut. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

I wish I knew more about this whole tagging thing.

More.

Last one for now.

Enjoy!

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Lots of people ask me how i get shit done. Boards, working on the program, etc. etc., my own interests. Basically, I work whenever I am awake unless I am partying, which next to going to shows, has been minimal. I wake up at 645am every morning, hangover or not, and get a shower, slam a smoothie with all sorts of “good for you shit”, and power to the office, (unless I’m really wrecked). Then I check emails, handle any pissed off customers, (we all have a few), then start smashing on the task lists. Between processes I post on boards and handle ICQ messages. (if you wonder where i go for 20 minutes when I’m talking to you on ICQ, I’m on another machine). Then we have lunch at 12pm. After lunch emails get checked again and I do all my numbers games and traffic analysis for the day before, and right back to the task list and stuff. Around 6pm, I head home, make something to eat, and fire up the laptop in front of the t.v. I watch t.v. and check the boards and handle light repetitive work that I don’t like to waste my day doing if at all possible. Like 1030pm, I try to hit the sack, if I can’t sleep, I smash some of those melatonin pills and put it into something to drink and slam it. Normally by 1115pm I am asleep. The cycle repeats the next day.

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i published this little gem of wisdom the first time we got .XXX canned on the boards and in a few industry rags, but i think it needs revisiting based on the fact that .XXX is back. the wicked witch is not dead. i still don’t see the level of unity that we need to see to become a unified force to deal with. one day we are going to learn a tough lesson the hard way. i wrote this on the day that we found that icann had denied the creation of .xxx the first time.

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i really care about this industry and a lot of the people in it. we got lucky today. nothing more nothing less. if anyone thinks icann spared the “poor pornographers” i would seriously reconsider that thought. they are a business too, and .xxx stood to put an assload of money in there pockets. i am sure that their reasons for not voting it in are not the ones that many of you may be thinking. i don’t say this to insult anyone’s intelligence, but i do feel that unless you have followed this for a long time, you may not understand the nastiness that this would have caused on many different levels.

i hope this serves as a wake up call to the adult industry as a whole to start taking the industry as a whole more serious. this could have very easily gone the other way. the time is now to support these organizations that go to bat for this business, act like professionals, and push through the TLDs that “we” know will stop kids from accessing adult materials as best as possible.

we do in fact peddle immoral goods in the eyes of millions of americans and the governments that “protect” those people. however, many other industries are also peddling “immoral” and in fact extremely devastating products that affect the daily lives of americans for the negative. let’s talk about gun manufacturers, cigarette companies, alcohol companies, and drug companies, just to shave a sliver off the type of companies that push “questionable” materials to all the poor innocent americans.

all of these industries are represented at the government level and lobby hard to make things happen in their favor.

it is a known fact that cigarettes kill millions every year, disrupting families and damaging happy american dreamer’s lives every day.

guns are responsible for many deaths each year, yet still are poured on to the streets in ridiculous numbers. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

how many people die from paxil, vioxx, and god only knows how many other drugs that are advertised to people on prime time t.v. every night? All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

alcohol companies market under the radar to young people under the guise of crafty marketing campaigns and nifty, chic ads designed to subliminally entice them into the products. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

porn does in fact break up marriages, cause some people to become sex addicts, possibly influence young people to have sex more frivolously, but in my opinion, and the opinion for may others, does not do the damage that many of these “represented” industries of vice and destruction.

these other industries work on the fringe of “immoral and questionable” just as we do, but they do it by the government’s rules.

our industry has problems uniting. until we get over that, there will always be another .xxx, another law, another acacia, and blah blah blah.

i can get into a ridiculously lengthy editorial on why i think what i think from a ton of different perspectives, but i won’t. i guess my main point out of all of this is this industry is so “me me me” that everyone risks everything they have more regularly than makes me comfortable, because many of us can say “us”.

that’s all. I am extremely relieved. this could have easily been the beginning of a very long and trying period as .xxx would have been the roller coaster ride to hell in so many ways.

congrats people, but like baddog said, “well, doubt she(.xxx) is dead, but hospitalized anyway”.

be well everyone. we dodged a bullet.

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Well, with the Xbiz Summer Forum coming up on us so quickly, here’s a few pics from last year to hold you over till July.

That Awesome Pool!

The L.A. crew in the Vegas Pool!

DJing at the Hard Rock Pool

My Friend Vikki

A Sexy Pic For You!

Xbiz Summer Forum Opening Party

MCing during the day at the pool!

Vikki and Me in the Pool!

Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

Hotties all over the place!

DJing

MCing with Lia 19 and Elle Sommers

Julie had a spider on her shirt! A big one

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Me and the homie Ahn from Wanted List

Be there or be sqaaaaaaare!!!!

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