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In December, 2011, it was announced that the [[National Arbitration Forum]] (NAB) would handle the Rapid Evaluation Service; they would also be running a second, similar service for ICM, the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy. The NAB has been a [[UDRP]] evaluator since the late 1990s, and has evaluated over 17,000 domain disputes. The system will be paperless, and the Rapid Evaluation Service allows trademark owners to quickly and efficiently challenge any infringement, while the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy allows users to challenge the eligibility of a .xxx domain owner. Those owners are expected to be companies or individuals professionally involved in the adult entertainment industry.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/05/nab-announces-its-rapid-evaluation-service-to-handle-xxx-disputes-like-the-udrp-but-faster/ NAB Announces Its Rapid Evaluation Service to Handle XXX Disputes like the UDRP but Faster, The Domains.com]</ref>
In December, 2011, it was announced that the [[National Arbitration Forum]] (NAB) would handle the Rapid Evaluation Service; they would also be running a second, similar service for ICM, the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy. The NAB has been a [[UDRP]] evaluator since the late 1990s, and has evaluated over 17,000 domain disputes. The system will be paperless, and the Rapid Evaluation Service allows trademark owners to quickly and efficiently challenge any infringement, while the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy allows users to challenge the eligibility of a .xxx domain owner. Those owners are expected to be companies or individuals professionally involved in the adult entertainment industry.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/05/nab-announces-its-rapid-evaluation-service-to-handle-xxx-disputes-like-the-udrp-but-faster/ NAB Announces Its Rapid Evaluation Service to Handle XXX Disputes like the UDRP but Faster, The Domains.com]</ref>
===Unilateral Domain Seizure===
On December 13th, just a week after general availability for .xxx began, ICM Registry seized around 70 domains that they deemed as flagrant trademark infringement; these domains included huffingtonpost.xxx, businessweek.xxx, verizonwireless.xxx, and washingtonpost.xxx. This is notable given the fact that [[ICANN]] has an involved arbitration process, the [[Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy]], that acts as the means for all domain-name trademark disputes. This is a singular event in the domaining industry, and ICM acted on its own after considering third-party allegations not related to any legal filing or arbitration process. ICM had not immediately decided whether to only seize the domains, or also suspend the domains and thereby remove them permanently from the pool of available names.<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/14/xxx_squatter/ XXX Squatter, TheRegister.co.uk]</ref>
ICM Registry's registration agreement also gives them the right to suspend or seize all .xxx domains from any registrant that is found to have infringed on trademarks. ICM is able to do this where other registries are not because it verifies the identity of its registrants and requires an registrar-registry agreement.<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/14/xxx_squatter/ XXX Squatter, TheRegister.co.uk]</ref>
==Opposition, Controversy, and Legal Action==
==Opposition, Controversy, and Legal Action==