The Crazy Reason the Gay Community Can't Control .Gay Websites

​The group that controls Internet domain name creation has once again rejected the LGBT community's bid to have control over .gay domain names, saying the community it too large, Pink News reports. 

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers first rejected the idea of handing over the domain to the LGBT community in October 2014 and instead auditioned it to commercial bidders who didn't seem to have any association with the LGBT community and just wanted to profit off the domain. 

Slate pointed out in 2014 that auctioning the domain to the commercial bidders would allow homophobes to buy .gay sites and the majority of the rest would likely be turned into porn sites. 

In the most recent evaluation, ICANN decided that .gay shouldn't be applied to the LGBT community because the community also includes "bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, ally and many other terminology" and "therefore does not meet the requirements."

Dotgay LLC, the "originator of a landmark proposal to create a .gay domain space on the Internet," wrote about the decision on their Facebook page, stating, "It is not unusual that people outside of the community would not be able to see our community in the same way we do" and that they remain "committed to insure the future of community TLDs applications at ICANN and the inclusion of the gay community in the voice of global Internet policy."

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