There's no reason you couldn't do it, and no reason it should reflect
badly on you at all. How is someone else having email address like
mail@f***this.com bad for your business? You're only a reseller -
it has nothing to do with you - or indeed OpenSRS.
Now - I know there's alot of things people might not like dealing
with - especially in regards to web hosting, but there are so many
different opinions on what is/is not acceptable. In the case of web
hosting for example, should my opinion on what is acceptable hold
more weight simply because I own a web server and they don't? As
long as its legal and doesn't violate any trademarks or copyright,
etc - then its unethical of me to impose my morality onto customers.
I think Tucows had no business telling you they couldn't do it,
if that is indeed what they said. And if they then went ahead and
did it themselves after telling you not to, then that really is
unethical.
As an aside, there was recently a court case in Australia, where
somone had been charged with using said word in public. It was
thrown out of court since it was felt the word was now a common
word to be heard on any main street and just about any movie.
Kirk.
Ken wrote:
>
> Okay, this is a joke right? well, sort of..
>
> A customer of ours just registered a domain that started with the
> "f-word" at domaindirect.com
>
> We had refused to register it, since we have strong feelings about the
> wisdom of registering such names AND we were advised by opensrs support
> that they were constrained by network solutions rules and would not
> register such names.
>
> We don't plan to start handling these names, since the repurcussions of
> name@fu**this.com are very negative for our business, but I am suprised
> that domaindirect.com, a Tucows company would do this, when opensrs
> staff advised us that they would not / could not do it.
>
> -Ken
> http://domains.pacific.net
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