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My Predictions on .XXX and Fresh TLDs for Friday’s ICANN Board Meeting

ICANN’s Board will make big decisions Friday. Here’s what I think will happen.

On Friday ICANN’s board will meet and pass resolutions on a handful of contentious issues. Here are my predictions on two of them.

.XXX – Full steam ahead. The stalling game will conclude even though the Free Speech Coalition states .xxx will be the end of the internet as we know it.

Fresh TLDS – The comment period of the proposed Final Draft Applicant Guidebook ends shortly ahead of the board meeting. A number of fresh (and major) changes were made in the latest edition with “to be determined” measures. So don’t expect ICANN’s board to lock down the guidebook. If it did, people would (rightly) be able to say that ICANN didn’t take into consideration their comments. Instead, expect it to lay out specific issues that it will resolve by a certain date — perhaps within 30-60 days — at which point it will be approved.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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