I completely agree in priciple, that censorship is bad.
For us, this is a business decision.
We are an ISP/WebHosting business first, and an RSP and "protector of
free speech" second.
We give free parking and framed redirect(with an ad), and all email to
the admin contact included with domain name registrations through our
system. In this way, we encourage our web hosting business.
However, we don't want to host domains that will get our mailservers
blackholed. Do you know how easy it is to get your mailserver
blackholed? Take a look at the blackhole lists.....there is a common
thread.
http://maps.vix.com/rbl/candidacy.html#ByAssociation
It has nothing to do with censorship, and even though those we refuse to
register might feel otherwise, we DO have the right to do business with
whomever we choose.
-Ken
http://pacificdomains.net
Alpha Opportunities wrote:
>
> 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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