Kenya to block .XXX?

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Tuesday, May 10. 2011

Websites are reporting that Kenya's government has announced its intention to block .XXX. This was precisely one of the fears opponents of the adult entertainment domain voiced in San Francisco, where .XXX was given a definitive go-ahead by the ICANN Board.

Kenyan Communications Secretary Bitange Ndemo was quoted by www.xbiz.com as saying "We are not going to allow .XXX in this country. It's actually a certificate for people to watch pornography."

It remains to be seen what effect the wholescale blocking of a TLD will have on the way the Internet works, if any.

In related news, www.domainincite.com reports that the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes wrote a letter to US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke on April 6, 2011 asking him to wait before adding .XXX to the Internet root.

Posted by Stephane Van Gelder in .XXX at 22:03 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I wonder whether people will decide that a country that blocks gTLDS is an appropriate place for a IGF meeting?

But still it is better to have individual countries block a TLD than to have ICANN act as the censor for the world and be the one to do so.

#1 Avri Doria on 2011-05-10 22:25 (Reply)

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