ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain

In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue – the approval of a .xxx top-level domain. The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet.

I am unsure whether this means that we will _never_ see it again or not, but I had high hopes for Techgage.xxx. Read more at Slashdot.