Changes

* 2000- ICM Registry, a private company, submitted a proposal at [[ICANN]]’s 2000 Proof of Concept Round, proposing two unsponsored [[gTLD]] strings - [[.kids]] and .xxx. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/kids3/  ICANN.org]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/report/report-iiib1c-09nov00.htm ICANN.org]</ref>

* 2000- ICM Registry, a private company, submitted a proposal at [[ICANN]]’s 2000 Proof of Concept Round, proposing two unsponsored [[gTLD]] strings - [[.kids]] and .xxx. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/kids3/  ICANN.org]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/report/report-iiib1c-09nov00.htm ICANN.org]</ref>

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

* In March, 2004, ICM submitted a request for .xxx as an [[sTLD]], or Sponsored Top Level Domain, its sponsoring organization was the [[IFFOR|International&Foundation&for&Online&Responsibility]]. They passed the Financial and Technical Review Panels, but failed to pass the Sponsorship panel. That panel found that they did not represent a cohesive community, that they did not have sufficient international participation, that they had not sufficiently involved child safety and law enforcement advocates, and that they would not add value to the Internet. The [[ICANN Board]] gave ICM, and 5 other applicants that failed passing the Sponsorship panel, a chance to supplement their application and justify their legitimacy.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/draft-icm-rationale-18mar11-en.pdf Draft ICM Rationale 18Mar11, ICANN.org]</ref>

* 2007- January 6th, [[ICANN]] put up for public comment a revised proposal <ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/5gAwFTjYy "ICANN Publishes Revision to Proposed ICM (.xxx) Registry Agreement for Public Comment"]</ref> following changes to the policy of the ICM registry including the policing of any site that signs up to use the .xxx registry.

* 2007- January 6th, [[ICANN]] put up for public comment a revised proposal <ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/5gAwFTjYy "ICANN Publishes Revision to Proposed ICM (.xxx) Registry Agreement for Public Comment"]</ref> following changes to the policy of the ICM registry including the policing of any site that signs up to use the .xxx registry.