Senate thinks ICANN should have approved .xxx domain

In a September 20 hearing convened by a Senate Commerce subcommittee on an agreement between the federal government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), members suggested that ICANN should have approved an adult domain called .xxx instead of rejecting it. That domain could be used to segregate pornographers, they said.
But an acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce told the Senators that the Bush administration last year asked ICANN to halt the process (see earlier blog post), citing "e-mails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children."
ICANN President Paul Twomey said his group had received more than 100,000 complaints about .xxx from groups such as the American Family Association. ICANN's rejection of .xxx, Twomey said, had "a lot to do with the...timing of the request" rather than an objection in principle.
More information is available in the second half of this article from ZDNet News.