ICM registry

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ICM Registry, LLC

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legal form Limited Liability Company
Seat Palm Beach Gardens , United States
management Stuart Lawley
(Chairman and CEO)
Branch Top level domains
Website www.icmregistry.com

ICM Registry is a domain name registry headquartered in the state of Florida . It was founded in 2004 to take over the management of the top-level domain .xxx . The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) is the so-called sponsor behind this .

history

ICM's application for the introduction of .xxx was formally accepted by ICANN in June 2006 . However, the decision was met with harsh criticism: The company was accused of unnecessarily promoting pornography on the World Wide Web by operating the top-level domain and of not taking sufficient account of the protection of minors . Due to numerous complaints, in August 2005, the United States Department of Commerce postponed the introduction of the new top-level domain.

Because of the ongoing criticism, ICANN revised its decision for .xxx and surprisingly rejected an introduction in March 2007 with nine to five votes. The ICM Registry took legal action against the vote and wanted to inspect the ICANN documents, but in April 2008 the lawsuit was dismissed. However , the ICM Registry won a subsequent proceeding before the arbitration tribunal of the International Center For Dispute Resolution , so that ICANN had to re-examine the allocation of .xxx.

Thereupon ICANN declared in August 2010 that the application from the ICM Registry now formally meets all award criteria and would therefore be accepted. A contract for operations was then negotiated between the two parties, and a draft was published in September 2010.

The contract between ICANN and ICM Registry was finally signed in the spring of 2011. The company then announced that it wanted to commence active operations as soon as possible and that the introduction itself would be divided into three phases ( sunrise period ). The start was actually planned for June 2011, but after further delays it did not take place until December 6, 2011.

In September 2012, ICM Registry started a search engine under the name search.xxx , which only includes pornographic content with a .xxx address. The prerequisite for indexing is the active use of the corresponding top-level domain; parked domains and forwarding are not supported. In April 2013, ICM Registry opened the search engine for advertisers who could book ads on certain keywords. The aim of this measure was to open up a second source of income for the company in addition to the core business with domains.

In the course of the allocation of new top-level domains , the ICM Registry applied for .porn , .sex and .adult . Previous owners of a .xxx domain should be able to preferentially register such addresses. It is not known whether and when the new extensions can actually be actively used.

criticism

Concerns have been expressed by the porn industry that a new top-level domain for pornographic content is not necessary at all. ICM Registry only aimed to impose unnecessary additional fees on the industry. The introduction of .xxx was equated with the compulsion to register a corresponding domain just to protect one's own trademark rights .

In addition, experts have repeatedly criticized the fact that ICM Registry does not offer certain particularly valuable .xxx domains publicly, but also registers itself. This includes , for example, sex.xxx .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leadership Team. (No longer available online.) ICM Registry, archived from the original on April 20, 2013 ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icmregistry.com
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: ICANN accepts Top Level Domain .xxx. In: heise online. June 2, 2005, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Peter-Michael Ziegler: Porn domain .xxx again under fire. In: heise online. August 16, 2005, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Sex domain with the ending .xxx does not come. In: The press. March 30, 2007, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: ICM Registry fails in US court. In: domain-right. April 2, 2008, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .info, .cn and .xxx. In: domain-right. March 3, 2010, accessed April 20, 2013 (last paragraph).
  7. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: ICM Registry takes the next hurdle. In: domain-right. August 12, 2010, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: ICANN publishes registry contract. In: domain-right. September 6, 2010, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Sex pages now have their own ending. In: image. March 21, 2011, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: ICM Registry prepares introduction. In: domain-right. March 31, 2011, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Monika Ermert: .XXX: Niche product for "top target group". In: heise online. December 7, 2011, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  12. ↑ The first clean porn search engine. In: image. September 28, 2012, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Keywords new to .xxx search engine. In: domain-right. April 18, 2013, accessed April 18, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Facebook doesn't want its own domain ending. In: domain-right. April 23, 2012, accessed April 20, 2013 (second paragraph).
  15. ↑ Tino Kreiss: Porn industry against .xxx domain? (No longer available online.) In: Tom's Hardware. September 6, 2010, archived from the original on September 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tomshardware.de
  16. ↑ Ralph-Bernhard Pfister: ICM Registry: .xxx domain allocation starts in September. In: Advertise & Sell. July 18, 2011, accessed April 20, 2013 .