I for one feel you should be able to register what ever you want. This
falls into freedom of speech.. I think this is the domain that settled this:
Registrant:
STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM)
United States District Court, District of
New Hampshire, 55 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
Domain Name: FUCK.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSOL-NOC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
703-742-4777
Billing Contact:
Accounts Payable (AP5173-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
703-742-0400
Record last updated on 24-Mar-2000.
Record expires on 24-Mar-2002.
Record created on 24-Mar-2000.
Database last updated on 4-Oct-2000 11:29:15 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.11
NS.NETSOL.COM 198.41.0.196
NS2.NETSOL.COM 198.17.208.83
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:01 PM
Subject: profanedomains.com
> 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
>
>
