> -----Original Message----- > From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:57 AM > > The growing certainty of an expensive and very embarassing lawsuit if > they turned ICM down. Despite the clear lack of industry support for > .XXX, ICM carefully jumped through every hoop, dotted every i, and > crossed every t in the 2004 application process and the subsequent > appeal and review processes. I expect the board and staff really > really would not want to have to answer questions under oath like "who > did you talk to at the US Department of Commerce about the .XXX > application and what did you say?" and "why did you vote against .XXX > when they followed the same rules as the TLDs you voted for?"
Agreed. And ICM made damn well sure that they had the ways and the means to wage a considerable and sustained amount of legal pressure by selling over a quarter million pre-registrations at $75 each, generating over $20M in revenue... Stefan Fouant