ICM Registry

Type:	Private
Industry:	Internet, Registry
Founded:	Delware, USA (2000)
Headquarters:	Suite 2500 130, Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M2, Canada
Website:	http://www.icmregistry.com/
Key People
Jason Hendeles, Vice President – Strategic Business Development Stuart Lawley, Chairman and President Len Bayles, Chief Technical Officer

ICM Registry is the company behind the .xxx registry. ICM Registry is a financially stable and completely independent entity with no affiliation, current or historic, with the adult entertainment industry. As a registry operator, ICM Registry provides management, supporting infrastructure and back-end functionality.

The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) is the sponsoring organization.

History

ICM Registry was founded in the year 2000 by Jason Hendeles. It was founded in Delaware, USA.

ICM Registry, a private company, submitted a proposal in ICANN’s 2000 Proof of Concept round, proposing two unsponsored gTLD strings - .KIDS and .XXX . The evaluators in the Proof of Concept round recommended against the inclusion of either the .KIDS or the .XXX TLD strings in the Proof of Concept round.

After this, ICM Registry's proposal was accepted and later revoked many times.

On January 6, 2007, ICANN put up for public comment a revised proposal following changes to the policy of the ICM registry including the policing of any site that signs up to use the .xxx registry. On March 30, 2007, ICANN rejected the .xxx proposal for the third time, citing that the board did not want to get in the business of content regulation, especially when the definition of "pornography" varies by jurisdiction.

On February 19, 2010 ICANN's Independent Review Panel issued a declaration in its review of ICM Registry's appeal. The Panel found that the application for the ".XXX sTLD met the required sponsorship criteria," and that "the Board’s reconsideration of that finding was not consistent with the application of neutral, objective and fair documented policy". A 45 day public comment was opened on March 26, 2010, and on June 25, 2010, the ICANN board approved the proposal.

Services offered by ICM Registry

ICM Registry intends to provide the registry service for both .XXX and .KIDS through the Internet's two leading domain name registry-service providers: dotTV Corporation and Verisign Global Registry Services. Primary registry application functions will be performed by dotTV. Verisign will provide a supporting role for all registration functions, ensuring the registry is reliable and stable.

ICM Registry and its partners will offer superior quality and reliable services based on their track records, expertise and experience. In particular, ICM Registry's proposal is predicated on:

• verifiable service-level agreements to protect customers from liability and service interruption;
• providing registrars with a fast, ultra-reliable service to meet registrant expectations;
• back up and escrow services to safeguard data and information;
• an advanced registration software system to facilitate integration of registration services.

ICM Registry also offers:

• a complete suite of value added services to meet the specialized and different needs of registrars, registrants, and trademark holders;
• optimal security, firewall, anti-virus and intrusion detection;
• strategically located service nodes worldwide.

External links

Official website of ICM Registry

Top-Level Domain