Welcome to the Dot Gay Alliance
Welcome to the Dot Gay Alliance. This is a gay-led initiative to get ICANN, the international body that runs the Internet, to allow the creation of the new top-level domain of .GAY. Instead of .COM, .NET, .ORG and other such top-level domains, ICANN is going to allow hundreds of new web addresses.
If there is one community that can benefit from its own domain space, it’s .GAY for the LGBT community. We are international but up until now, have only been organized locally. Now we can achieve global visibility, united by a short, 3-letter word — GAY.
The Dot Gay Alliance is launching this bid for one major reason, to raise money to fight for LGBT rights in the U.S. and around the world. We believe that .GAY will be a major success, we will deliver, by charter, over half of our profits back to the community to help civil rights groups in this fight. That is major.
We have come this far because of relentless activism and streams of money to fund it. That needs to continue until we are fully equal.
For example, we are fighting to make same-sex marriage our right in the U.S., though to many LGTB people around the world it’s a distant luxury they dare not even imagine. That fight has just begun, and needs our support.
Last Monday, the Obama administration finally – FINALLY – took a baby step of filing court papers against the terrible Defense of Marriage Act that has been soiling the law books of the United States since the Clinton administration. It’s progress, however slight. The following day however, the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, vetoed a ban against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Republican mayor, Dan Sullivan, said he wasn’t clear if such discrimination existed! Clearly, he should get out a bit more.
The point is: there’s still a long way to go for full and equal rights. It’s clear that the combination of activism plus funding is what it is takes to fight these sorts of battles in the courts as well as in the courts of public opinion..
Won’t you please endorse this important initiative now? It’s simple — just click the button on the right. Let’s not be invisible on the Internet any longer.
I think the biggest hurdle here is that ICANN (ICANN.org) has already indicated they don’t want to regulate content or enter politics. They consider themselves an international body, not subject to the rules of any particular nation, most of whom can only regulate domains that they sponsor (i.e. .uk for United Kingdom and .us for United States).
This was especially evident when they flatly declined .xxx domains. They considered it content regulation and bordered far too much on politics.
That being said, if this does go through, wanna bet there’s going to be a bidding war on im.gay ?