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>Subject: Re: tits.com
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Bennett)
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>Richard-
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>You're missing my point!!
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>I understand the aspect that registrars may have different rules in regards to
>registering domains, but this has *nothing* to do with that...please re-read my
>original post again!
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>Bottom line is try to register tits.com or tits.ANYTHING and its immediately
>rejected at Register.com. So the average person can't even attempt to register
>such a domain there. The point is that Register.com appears to be cheating and
>giving some registrants preferrence (i.e. themselves) or has some security
>holes that allow people to sneak such domains through.
>
>Ron Bennett
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>In article <7k32d5$iv8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
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>>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:33:00 -0800
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>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ellen Rony)
>>Subject: Re: [IFWP] FYI
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>>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
>>The Domain Name Handbook ____ http://www.domainhandbook.com
>>======================== ^..^ )6 =============================
>>ISBN 0879305150 (oo) -^-- +1 (415) 435-5010
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] W W Tiburon, CA
>> Dot com is the Pig Latin of the Information Age.
>>
>>--
>>Richard Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada
>>70, 72 280SE; 83 300SD http://www.mbz.org
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