There's one thing in this thread that may have been overlooked (just to
protect DomainDirect/Tucows, mind you...).
Many of our resellers still use ns1/ns2.domaindirect.com as their
default nameservers (against our advisement, and we're working on
getting this all changed). So even though the nameservers show as ours,
it's possible that this domain wasn't registered through us. Although,
I cannot verify as I do not know the domain name in question....
That aside - when ICANN deregulated the name space, hordes of names
(mostly through CORE) that were 'risque' became part of the general name
space. In respect to competition, if the customer isn't doing anything
illegal, a new name is a new name :)
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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Charles Daminato
Tucows Product Manager (ccTLDs)
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