Period Brings Out the Form Letters — .XXX Comment

This time both sides of debate make use of “form” comments.

The comment period for “Revised Proposed Registry Agreement for .XXX sTLD and Due Diligence Documentation” at ICANN ends Thursday. Much like last time, there are hundreds of comments submitted through online forms that basically states the same thing.

But this time .xxx backer ICM Registry has decided two can play at that game. The firm has added a form to its web site at icmregistry.com/forms.

This has prompted one commentor, who goes by the name Naughty Traffic, to cry afoul:

SCAM BOGUS POSTS: “Please approve the .XXX Registry Agreement”

Any post with ICM’s form mail titled: “Please approve the .XXX Registry
Agreement” ought to be discounted.

Sure, Mr. Naughty. We can discount those. But then we ought to also discount the many form letters with the headline “I run adult websites and I do NOT want the .xxx tld!”

Not surprisingly, few of the comments actually address the material for which ICANN is requesting comments.