A case pitting adult entertainment companies against the gatekeepers of Internet domain names cleared a key hurdle this week, when a federal judge in Los Angeles largely allowed antitrust claims over the controversial .xxx domain to go forward.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez partly granted motions to dismiss filed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit organization in charge of the domain name system, and ICM Registry LLC, the registry running the .xxx domain. But the judge allowed the plaintiffs to pursue their core claims that ICANN and ICM were running what amounts to a shakedown of the adult industry, forcing website operators to defensively seek .xxx addresses to protect their brands.
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