Ellen, Ron and all,
Yes this was discussed on the DOmain Policy list even before
April. The point is that to do so is foolish on ICANN's and any
registrar to do as it is in most countries including the US
an established violation of freedom of expression. This will
only lead to eventual court challenges by many existing
Adult related Domain name holders to ICANN and the DNSO
as well and any of their registrars. As such this sort of policy
shows the lack of good judgment on the part of the ICANN
(initial?) Interim board and the potential registrar's....
Ellen Rony wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> >>
> >>SO HOW COULD SOMEONE REGISTER TITS.COM AT REGISTER.COM WHEN THEY BLOCK
> >>REGISTRATION *REQUESTS* FOR SUCH DOMAINS!??
> >>
> >>Just to be sure that the TITS.COM and similar are still blocked, I tried
> >>registering various profane domains at both NSI webpage and via NSI
> >>registration template and couldn't. So my question is how could someone
> >>register TITS.COM??
>
> The answer is simple. NSI, the registrar, has a different policy as
> regards "offensive" words (although I'm not certain this word fits that
> description) than does register.com. NSI officials confirmed to me late in
> April that this might occur in the Shared Registry System.
>
> I presume that words protected by federal statute (e.g., NASA, Olympic,
> Citius, Red Cross, etc.) will remain unavailable through any testbed or
> accredited registrars.
>
> Ellen Rony Co-author
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