.xxx - Will filth prevail?

There has been a move recently by ICANN--the body that controls internet domains--to create a domain specifically for pornographers. It will be the .xxx domain. It will be working exactly like the .com or.net domains and instead of finding a web address of www.<name>.com one would find www.<name>.xxx. This will make it so much easier for people to find pornographic material on the world wide web! Is that really what we want for a medium that has so much to offer? The US government has asked ICANN to postpone their vote for this domain until September 15, 2005.

Why don't you help by letting ICANN know that such a domain is not welcome on the internet by emailing, faxing or calling them by phone.

Here is the contact information for ICANN that you can also find at http://www.icann.org/general/contact.htm.

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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Marina del Rey, CA, USA

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601
USA

Phone: +1.310.823.9358
FAX: +1.310.823.8649

Belgium

6 Rond Point Schuman
Bt. 5
Brussels B-1040 Belgium

Phone: +32 2 234 7872
FAX: +32 2 234 7848

General Email: icann@icann.org

For questions and comments about the website, webmaster@icann.org
For questions concerning operations and content, questions@icann.org
For comments and submitting community feedback, comments@icann.org
For complaints about accredited registrars, go to the InterNIC website.
For questions about registrar accreditation, email accredit@icann.org

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Alternatively, you may go to this webpage to simply fill in a preformatted form and have your say against the .xxx domain.

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I wrote a short email to them to ask them to vote against the .xxx domain. Here is that email:

Pornography has become a scourge to the world and not just in the USA. It has been conclusively proven through many studies that almost all rapists commit rape after having viewed pronographic material. This is a serious issue! May the blood of rape victims not be found on your hands. Please do not legitimize this filth by giving them their own domain.

Pornography is abhorrent and not only deprives women of their God-given dignity, but also that of men. We do not want our young men to think that they are merely animals that must act upon their animal, sexual lusts. Yet, that is exactly what pronography does for us. It makes us no better than the dogs in the street. Yet, we have mental and moral capabilities that these animals do not have. Why break down those capabilities by legitimizing pornography through a pornographical domain?

Please, vote against this domain!

Just thinking...