ICANN's Board of Directors has voted against a proposed agreement for creating a new Top Level Domain, Dot XXX.
[ICANN press release, May 10 2006]The Dot XXX application has received much public comment and detailed discussion by the ICANN Board.
Reflecting the diversity of views this application has generated, the Board discussion at today's meeting focused on the criteria for the sTLD, especially for sponsorship, and the terms of the contract proposed by ICM, including compliance issues related to key terms associated with public policy concerns.
ICM had proposed additional terms in response to issues raised by ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee, particularly at ICANN's meeting in Wellington in March.
ICM had requested that the ICANN Board vote on the proposed contract at this meeting.
ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 against the proposed agreement.
Votes in favor of the proposed .XXX Registry Agreement were cast by the following Board Members: Veni Markovski, Susan Crawford, Peter Dengate Thrush, Joichi Ito, and Mouhamet Diop.
Directors who voted against the approval were Vint Cerf (Chairman), Alejandro Pisanty (Vice-Chairman), Raimundo Beca, Demi Getschko, Hagen Hultzsch, Njeri Rionge, Vanda Scartezini, Paul Twomey (President and CEO), and Hualin Qian.