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Outgoing Senate Commerce Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller says approving ‘.sucks’ would do very little to enhance Internet users’ experience.
The Senate Commerce Committee wants to block “.sucks” domains.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.V.) advised the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the vulgar domains will turn the World Wide Web into the wild west of brand attacks, saying there is “little or no socially redeeming value” in the domain ending.
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Three companies so far have applied for the generic top level domain (gTLD), Donuts Inc., Momentous Corp. and Top Level Spectrum Inc., saying it will “foster debate and benefit consumers.”
“I view it as little more than a predatory shakedown scheme,” Rockefeller said, accusing the companies of wanting to use “.sucks” to “enrich the domain name industry rather than benefit the broader community of Internet users,” the politician wrote in a letter to ICANN.
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Rockefeller, the retiring Democrat who chairs the committee, urged to the group to decide against granting the gTLD and not “damage its reputation” as an organization.
ICANN is a non-profit organization contracted by the government to oversee domain name registration, subject to oversight by the Department of Commerce.
In 2011, ICANN decided to allow pornographic websites the ability to sponsor “.xxx” top-level domain (sTLD).
The move was praised by some as a first step in filtering out sexually explicit information readily available to children online but the registration is still voluntary for porn providers.
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