Using an sLD to advertise a garage sale for a week or a month strikes me as the height of stupidity for any number of reasons, but if you only want it for a week or a month then pay the $6 for the domain name (it would cost similar to run a classified ad regarding the garage sale in your average local newspaper) and then only use it for a week or a month. Hardly rocket science. But because you've registered the name your email address will be in the WHOIS (unless you lie, in which case you may not be able to manage the domain) and once it is in the WHOIS the spammers will likely have it and use it almost immediately, certainly within a few days.

There are probably less individuals routing around ICANN than there were a few years ago, and you can't really route around ICANN anyway, they control all the numbers. I never much cared for ICANN but I try to be accurate in my criticism. No-one will take you seriously when you can't even grasp simple facts and concepts. -g

Most parents wouldn't know how to filter ANY name server IP block that supports .XXX, it makes little sense to do so anyway, and regardless it is all still within ICANN's controlled space.

ICANN doesn't need to control bandwidth, why would they bother? This is yet another red herring.

Regarding your apparent distaste for academics, we wouldn't have an internet were it not for academia, and many of ICANN's most perceptive critics are within academia. Perhaps you'd like to point out where this consumer root is and the number of users. I've never heard of it so I assume it's just something else you've made up. -g