The Man Who Would Be the Dot-XXX King
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The Internet has made Stuart Lawley a wealthy man. In 1999 he got rich by taking a British Internet service provider public. The has named him one of the 1,000 richest people in Britain.
Now he's poised to make his next fortune selling Internet addresses to pornographers. Late last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international body that manages Web addresses around the world, gave preliminary approval for Lawley's application to be the sole registry of Internet domains that end in dot-xxx.