.XXX Porn domain defeated at ICANN

From OUT-LAW.com: "Porn domain defeated at ICANN":

A plan to create a pornography-only internet domain has failed. The body in charge of the internet's naming system, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a bid by British businessman Stuart Lawley.

The bid would have created a top level domain purely for pornographic content in which addresses would have ended in .xxx. Lawley claimed that the domain would help pornography companies to adopt best business practices, but ICANN said that the proposal did not meet its criteria, and that the proposal would make ICANN responsible for monitoring content, which it did not want to do...