Judge Denies Lawsuit Over Dirty Domains

caledon writes: "A Brooklyn judge has ruled that Network Solutions cannot be sued for civil rights violations because it refused to register obscene domain names. This New York Law Journal article describes how Island Online, Inc. sued NSI and the National Science Foundation for denial of free-speech rights because NSI refused to "register three 'dot-com' domain names that incorporated words commonly considered obscene: 'f---me.com;' 'f---you.com' and 'c---s-----.com.'"" The main point here is that NSI is supposedly not bound by the rules that bind the U.S. Government, despite holding a monopoly granted by the Commerce Department.