Okay, my turn to weigh in on this already beaten-to-death subject (this must
be a new record for list messages on a single topic in such a short time --
you can see how much interest this topic generates and, inter alia, why so
many people and companies want to register so-called "risque" names).
I think, as RSPs, we should stay the f**k out of censorship, and let people
decide for themselves what names are or are not proper for their given
businesses. And when you look at some of the names already out there (go
ahead, think of the sleaziest, crudest, most disgusting, illegal things you
can think of, and do a search if you don't believe me), geez, something with
such a mild component as the f-word is hardly anything worth sweating over.
What five-year-old doesn't have it as part of his or her vocabulary already?
Personally, I can't stand censorship and holier-than-thou hypocrisy, so
unless you are a church or some sort of religious group, just run your damn
RSP and let your clients make their own decisions like big boys and girls.
That's one of the reasons I have chosen not to register any .ws names
(besides the fact that I don't think they carry near the weight of a .com
domain) -- they want to censor everthing the least bit off-color and just
don't let you register it. What BS -- who gives them the moral right to
tell me what is acceptable and what is not?
Having lived in lots of highly hypocritical cultures (yes, even more so than
the U.S. and Canada, if you can believe that), it has been my experience
that the more people mind other people's business, the less they mind their
own, with disasterous consequences for their countries, societies, and
economies -- not to mention their own pathetic narrow little lives.
Anyway, my two cents, for what it is worth in this increasingly uptight
world.
Frank J. Yacenda
President & CEO
Alpha Opportunities
www.dotyourdomain.com
Domains just $14.99/year
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: profanedomains.com
> 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
>
> --
>
> Charles Daminato
> Tucows Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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