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Stories and comments across the archive that link to nsi.com.

Stories · 2

  1. Naughty Words in Domains

    Yro · Internet · · posted by jamie · from the faq dept. · 307 comments
    benny_c writes "I decided to make an online Christmas card for my friends, and the domain name I was after has the 'Fword' in it. While I am articulate enough to speak without dropping that bomb (most of the time), it is an integral part of the running joke behind the site. I was somewhat disturbed when I tried to search on nsi.com which returned the message 'The domain name requested was not accepted because it was inappropriate.'" The story continues, read on. (Caution: you may see four ascii characters in the range 97-122 which, when concatenated, offend you.)

    register.com just said the site is unavailable, as is any other domain which happens to have the wrong string of four letters (even when surrounded by giberish ... try searching for something like ewqsdfuckdfd). I am sure that if I keep looking I will find another registrar who does want my business. I was wondering though whether anybody else has had potential domain names censored for something other than the 'Fbomb', and what else might be taboo amongst the registrars.'

    The secret is to speak another language, or find a friend who does, and register your domain using a registrar based in a non-English-speaking country. I speak a little German so I tried it, and while I didn't actually spend the money to take the final steps, I was told by three separate registrars that "Die Domain fuck12065237.com ist noch frei!"

    If anyone tries this, let us know how it works. If you find any other taboo words, in English or any other language, tell us the details!

    Here's the list of accredited registrars, including many in non-English-speaking countries.

  2. The Battle for .Web

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the i-just-want-my-.dot-tld dept. · 98 comments
    Tripp Lilley writes "At FOCI: Friends Of a Competitive Internet, we've sent out this letter to a lot of folks interested in the battle for the .Web TLD in the ICANN New TLD Program. While ICANN's Criteria for Assessing TLD Proposals call for, among other things, "the enhancement of competition for registration services" and "enhance[ment] [of] the diversity of the DNS and of registration services generally", over one third of the proposals on the table come from a fascinatingly intertwined group of existing registries and registrars, including NSI, CORE, and Melbourne IT. (Oh, and before anyone flames me for not disclosing my affiliations, read the full disclosure that's been posted on the site and attached to the letter since we began)."