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Naughty Words in Domains
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.
a friend of mine registered "completelyfucked.com" at domainpeople.com ... i would suggest them.
www.domainpeople.com
Well, as my nine-year-old has already told me, "F*ck" is clearly a short form of "Fire truck". This before he ran away sniggering.
Seeing as I am not bound by Constitutional restrictions, however, I saw fit to punish the little f*cker for his misbehavior.
MERDE! No,they aren't.
VACHE is about as rude as it gets...
No, no religion there.
Hopefully you punished him for incorrectly applying a short form to the word "Fire Truck" and not for utilising F*ck. I remember my mom used always call me and my brother little sh*ts! when we were growing up.
That's pretty rich though, I gotta admit. Can't wait till mine thinks it's funny - of course then I'll have to explain to him why it really *is* funny! (as well as explaining why he shouldn't use it that often since most of the people he will come into contact with won't agree with his open-minded fathers opinion...)
Can anyone here demonstrate prior business use of "fuck" -- you could take NSI to arbitration and under the cybersquatting rules.. :)
The word Fuck comes from the word "Fukar", which means "to grow" (a man's penis grows before sex.)
Speednames ( http://www.speednames.com/ ) don't have any problem registering domain with the word 'fuck' in them (or any other words for that matter), so I suggest you go to them and register your domain.
Try this one on for size www.fuck.it
Folks, we can't allow foulmouthed domains to exist. They are obscene and thus illegal. Maybe if some of you so called geeks would pick up a Bible instead of staring at a screen all day you would realize this. There are inherently bad words and the "f word" is certainly one of them. The first ammendment only protects good speach not foulmouthed speech or pornography. Foulmouthedness is ruining our families and society. We must do everything we can to stop it from spreading to our children and punish them severely when they utter a bad word.
- A.P.
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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
You'll have no trouble registering domain names with "dirty" words in them (including "fuck" and "shit") with other registrars, such as register.com and joker.com.
- A.P.
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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
I'm probably missing some huge point, or not clear on the concept (and I'm sure I'll be reminded of that if it is the case), but why can't they do this? If I run a site and I don't want to see swear words (personally I don't fucking care myself :) don't I have the right to filter out?
:)
If NSI doesn't want to allow certain words to searched on, or domains to be registered, why can't they? They are a company just like everyone else, and just because everyone wants a *fuck*.com address, does that mean they have to let them? Hallmark doesn't have to use every greeting card idea sent to them, and a car dealership has the right to kick your ass off their lot if you're wandering around with a sign saying "fuck everyone". Ok, streching a bit I know....
Anyway, just my thoughts... I don't agree with them, but I don't nesissarily think that they (the company) has no say in what they do.
The ruling was that "indecent" expression is protected while "obscene" is not, and what was considered "obscene" by the Supreme Court was, if I remember right, the kind of stuff that would probably be vile enough to make the author of goatse.cx throw up, that is, pretty raw, hard core stuff. Curse words, like the F-word and such, would be considered "indecent" rather than "obscene," I believe.
The story you remember hearing was about the early days of AOL when they installed a filtering program over all their software. It's primary purpose was to stop people creating "rude" usernames and/or swearing in chat rooms.
I had an amusing problem using the internet cafe at Debenhams (a department store in London). They had some little patch installed so you couldn't swear in text boxes in IE. So for instance, if I was there right now, and I tried to type the word "fuck" in this comment, it would come out as "****".
OK, fair enough. But what I didn't realise was that it was also applying this filter to masked input boxes, like for passwords on websites. Of course you didn't notice this, because whatever you typed showed up as *'s anyway. Only problem was, the password for my online banking had, um, a naughty word in it.
I don't know HOW many times I tried to log on to my online banking from there. I KNEW my password was right, but it kept getting rejected. My account got locked (which sucked, because I had to phone them to get it unlocked, and it was an Australian bank and I was in London), I was ready to kill!
And then, like a thunderbolt, it struck me what was going wrong.
I had to laugh. After I'd gone to a different internet cafe, and changed my password, anyway. :-)
See, we cant do without the word fuck.
Shit fuck satan death sex drugs rape
These seven words you try to take.
Shit fuck satan death sex drugs rape
Right or wrong it's our choice to make.
America the beautiful, land of the free
Don't change the words to land of hypocrisy
Credit to Anthrax.
"Tomorrow's forecast: a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!" - Stewie Griffin
As for your complaints against my elitism... My point was not my "elite" status. My point was that Slashdot has changed. Could it be perhaps that you interpreted it this way because you are insecure about your own status? (If I had wanted to portrary myself as somehow elite, I would have mentioned my 200+ karma.)
I think the "Your Rights Online" section has served to seriously weaken Slashdot's potential for social change. It has tended to present a host of "causes" which are simply not important. DeCSS -- sure, critical free speech issue. "Geeks Rights" in the aftermath of Columbine -- definitely. I think Slashdot really helped to raise the flag there, and probably saved a lot of kids a lot of suffering.
Using the "f word" in a domain name for an inside joke because someone is too lame to go to an alternative registrar? Oh spare me.
Every time you raise a ruckus over an issue, you use some "capital." If you raise a ruckus over an issue that doesn't matter, you may not have this "capital" when the issue does matter. This is why organizations like the NAACP and ACLU have lost much of their ability to affect social change. Slashdot is rapidly becoming a cry-baby website, and when the issue really does matter -- when there is another Columbine -- nobody will listen. And that is a shame.
Or, to put it terms that brains limited to four letters might understand:
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Doubt you can.
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Don't dare try to tell me that DS is courteous.
Besides, I submit that, if the drill Sargeant is as talented as you claim, he could insult you just fine without using a single word from the "7 you must not say." Why pick the low hanging fruit? Remember: I specified an example where more "appropriate" language could not serve just as well.
Likewise, your appeal to cursing as a means to aculturation fails, since there are many other means of aculturation, and it is perfectly feasible to develop a distinctive vocabulary that would acculturate just as readily without having to be intentionally offensive.
As for the whole "french or latin" thing... Spare me. Those both require time and effort to learn. To simply say "fucking" this and "shit" that takes about ten seconds to learn, and I'm sure my 2-year-old could do it -- and I've heard two year olds cuss like sailors.
So let's see... You call me an idiot as you respond with irrelevant examples defending a behavior that accomplishes nothing and could be done by a 2-year-old.
If you don't see the disconnect, then I have to wonder whether you are an idiot or a troll.
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Most people get over potty and shock humor by the time they're twenty. Most people know it's a waste of time, and that a compelling urge to say "fuck fuck fuck fuck" is really an indicator of a limited imagination. Similarly, most people realize some time shortly after they first begin to support their own addictions instead of going to mommy and daddy for it that our rights are not nearly so important as our responsibilities.
So you can't register "I want to fuck your body.com". WHO CARES? If you don't like it, start your own registrar. If anyone cared about enabling this kind of juvenile nonsense, they would add your tld's to their cache.
Guess what: nobody cares.
I've been on Slashdot since pretty close to the beginning (take a look at my user number -- 4 digits, not 6). But I rarely bother to read anything but headlines anymore, and almost never bother to post. This article is a perfect example of why. By perpetuating the whines of emotional and intellectual infants for rights that they don't have to do things that don't matter, Slashdot has itself become nothing more than a forum for the tendentiousness of teenagers.
Kind of sad, ain't it?
The first person to say that "a little bit of censorship is like a little bit pregnant" (or its moral equivalent) gets a sugar coated pacifier and that stinky diaper changed. I've heard it before, and I'm not whelmed.
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Danny.
I have written over 900 book reviews
After a fit of stupidity on NSI's part this summer I decided to get back at them. Using Gandi.net I registered the domain name fucknsi.org. They kinda got taken aback when I was on the phone with them and said my email was i@want.to.skull.fucknsi.org. Plus Gandi is like 10 bucks for a year. Well, depending on the strength of the Euro I guess.
My Slashdot account is old enough to drink...
Fucking is a real city in Austria. The domain has been taken to sell T-shirts, though.
And there is the Argentinian film Fuckland.
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funny, actually
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
To err is human, to moo bovine
This is a nice example that it is definitely allowed elsewhere: fuck.it.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
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[ www.radioscunthorpe.com ]
The domain name was not accepted because it was inappropriate.
Stupid bastards.
-- Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles.
My impression, from references in things like Austin Powers and Midtown Madness 2 (which has some really awful "brit-isms", but also treats you to an 'upper class women' calling your fellow drivers tossers, amongst others) that wank does at least double-duty.
:)
There's the one I know and love (right-handed), which is a reference to masturbation, and this other more vague 'crap' or something similar, as in the The Wonderful Wank-o-meter or the jargon file entry.
I would agree with c*nt being probably the most offensive here (UK) too - a sound yelling from my dad when I first discovered the word and called my sister one at age 7 has seen to that with me
It is an ugly word though.
[oh yeah - I am a britfag, blah blah blah, two world wars, whatever - save you the bother]
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
but I have wankyspanky.com, also as part of a silly private joke (Hi Clairey & Lex!).
I think wank is a lot ruder in britain than america though.
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
I am sure that many of the ICANN registrars will allow this. I know for fact that the registrar I work for (GKG.NET, INC) will allow you to register domain names of this type. So you could register your domain HERE.
Good luck.
Send your friends messages of love at fuck-you.org
The best method I've found to getting around that fucking NSI bullshit is to buy a domain that is available and is strategic toward your end result.
For example, if you're trying to reserve the following TLD:
fuckgeorgewbush.com
ewbush.com
Then use a DNS service (e.g. http://www.easydns.com) to set up a virtual domain to read this:
fuckgeorg.ewbush.com
This isn't the most elegant solution, but hell, there's *always* more than one way to skin a cat! I've not done this yet, but I've sure looked into doing it (as you can tell).
I registered algoreisapigfucker.com through dynodomain.com which is an opensrs registrar. I went through the same problem with nsi and such that you have. Its ok.. there is someone else always willing to stand up for freedom of speech.
:)
For reference, this is the list of words which NSI will refuse to register:
Olympic
Olympiad
Redcross
Red-cross
Nasa
Genevacross
Geneva-cross
Citius-altius-fortius
Citiusaltius-fortius
Citius-altiusfortius
Peacecorps
Peace-corps
Fuck
Piss
Cunt
Cocksucker
Cock-sucker
Motherfucker
Mother-fucker
Tits
Nigger
Kike
This is from the list that comes with the ISP Tools package that ships to companies who resell domain names using NSI.
Bigger companies like NSI are pretty much always going to do this to appease stuffy old suits with money.
Smaller and newer registrars normally don't care, mainly because they're too busy working just to maintain a functional operation.
Bulkregister will take names with 'bad' words because they're just *now* getting their operation into a functional state. Heck, until just this month, there was no way for their resellers to do anything but register a domain with existing NIC handles without having to manually fill out forms. They're just too busy trying to build their infrastructure to give a rat's ass about screening domains for 'bad' words. I'd be willing to wager that once they start looking for major investment and some suit with a problem with swear words starts waving cash that a system for screening out 'inappropriate material' pops up real quick. That's business.
Take "garglesnarf" for example.
Watch your mouth!
On CityTV they bleep out "fuck" and "motherfucker" during the day, but after a certain time (I think around 8:30PM or so) they only bleep out the "mother" part of "motherfucker". I'd always thought it strange that the innocent word "mother" somehow made a swear word even worse somehow.
ObFuckDomain: fuckedcompany.com
There's a difference between getting offended when someone says something, stopping someone from saying it.
Of course, it isn't the word itself one should be offended by, but the intended meaning. If you use a word like "nigger" or "kike" actually intending to insult the people those derogatory terms refer to, then that would be something I'd get offended about. On the other hand if you used those terms for another reason (like quoting Mark Twain, or this discussion), then I wouldn't be offended at all. Either way, I wouldn't attempt to take away your right to say it.
the U.S. is the nation that has become the most powerful nation with the highest standard of living (for its size)
When you say "for its size", I assume you mean population-wise. If that's the case, then the same could be said about China.
If you're actually referring to land-area, Canada has a higher standard of living that the US.
Most of them are agents of Satan. Particularly, NSI.
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I guess that they do not want to be assoicated with those types of domains. And they are worried about thier liability if they register those types of domain.
This is what I get: (from a shaw @Home ip in the 24.67.119.0/255.255.255.0 netblock)
You are not authorized to view this page
You do not have permission to view this directory or page from the Internet address of your Web browser.
If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please contact the Web site administrator by using the e-mail address or phone number listed on the bullsh.it home page.
HTTP 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address rejected
Internet Information Services
Technical Information (for support personnel)
Background:
This error is caused when the server has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the site, and the IP address you are using is in this list.
More information:
Microsoft Support
The list of words, thoughts and concepts that we have had to be protected from spans the range from Carlin's famous Seven Words You Can't Say on Television to dodecahedron, the existence of which was thought by Helenic Greek philosophers to be too complex and powerful for mere mortals.
Some far-Eastern sects believe that saying the nine billion names of Rama will being about the end of the Universe.
Just saying the name of Jehova will bring death by lapidation (stoning) from some fundamentalist Jewish sects. ("Oy! Put down that rock!)
Just having the ability of giving birth to their sons condemns women to solitary confinement amongst the Taliban.
The litany of forbidden words would fill its own dictionary. Different words for different times and different places. The fun begins when they, those mystical, all-powerful illuminati,) set up mutually exclusive rules. Then you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
The issue has always been about control. Thou shalt not is not for your good but for your good not! Its about: Who's in charge here!
Setting one fundamentalist against the other doesn't work either. They merely get together to oppress you more together.
The trick is to propose something that is so ridiculous that it is unenforcable:
disembowelment for cursing, in any of a hundred languages about any of a hundred concepts;
decapitation for thinking about dental floss;
genitorture and mutilation for humming off-key;
immolation for dragging elections through the courts long after anybody cares who robs them blind;
castration for failing to deliver campaing promises
You get the idea...
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
So don't use NSI.
I used DomainZero (when they were still free) to register fucknut.org, they didn't bat an eyelash.
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Hmmm, I'm not sure I can trust a domain register if they can't even get their Terms of Service correct. "three (5) times", "twenty (30) page", and "three (5) times" confuses me. What are the trying to say?
It's obvious to me that NameZero (losers) decided to modify their TOS (retroactively screw over existing customers) to take into account real-world necessities of the usage of their service (we made up some numbers, they didn't work, so we made up some more numbers); in the process they neglected to fact-check the document before posting it (can't afford a proofreader).
Jay (= (karma whore looking for "Funny" points)
As usual, Gandi.net proves _again_ that they are the best registrar. fuck12065237.com is perfectly fine if you register with them. Who in their right mind uses NSI? I know from experience that they review domain name "checks" and register ones that look good, if you do not immediately.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
And also the (unfortunate) nickname of a guy I met while at uni .. Hi Dave, if you're reading ;D
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I was not allowed to get a .org.au of my domain name because the registra thought it was too much overhead to have it in both the .org and the .org.au domain lists. He said i should have au.organisation.org or something similar. So it does not supprise me one bit that its hard to get swear words through. Hopefully one day Robert Elz will no longer be the sole admin for the .org.au domain space and will let people have the right to do what they wish. Why can greenpeace have both .org and .org.au?
NSI's decision not to register domain names that they deem as being vulgar is just like MAPS and ORBS' decisions to not deliver email to persons who's ISPs have signed up with them whom they deem as being spammers.
How do you figure that $11USD is cheaper than $10.00, pray tell?
I might have a cheap bridge to sell to you if you come up with a compelling enough explanation...
Very funny. Anyway, it is NOT an acronym. The word has clear relatives in other Germanic languages, which variously mean "to hit", "to push", or even "to have sex".
The other "backronym" that was invented to explain the word is "Fornication Under Consent of the King". Not true either.
See alt.usage.english FAQ, or Snopes.
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why should idiots like you clog up the internet by buying domain names for christmas cards. I bet you irc with some rediculously long host like i.am.a.complete.fucking.idio.ot or post to alt.losers.i.have.no.life.so.i.like.to.waste.time. buying.domain.names.for.christmas.cards
I have no sympathy for you. get a life.
NSI has screened George Carlin's seven dirty words for years.
In 1998, Jeff Gold raised a fuss because NSI automatically rejected the domain name shitakemushrooms.com.
Fortunately, NSI is no longer the only registrar around. However, using another agency is no guarantee that NSI won't censor your domain name. For example, NSI unilaterally cancelled the registration of www.vote-auction.com, registered with a company in Germany.
That's a George Carlin routine, I think
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We registered fuckinmoney.com just fine with DirectNIC, and it's cheap too. www.directnic.net
How the fuck do you know that shitface domain won't fucking get rejected later, such as when it goes through to the motherfucking central registry? (language included for the unoffended)
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I rember how the word "fuck" was banned yet the domain name fuckedcompany.com was allowed.
I might add that this is the Internet and keepping the Internet domains clean of english curse words when web sites are known to contain graphic discriptions of thies curse words.
One often posted website contains a clear example of one curse... something I personally got called a lot when someone didn't get what they wanted. But the domain name is deceptive.. It is quite likely had the domain holder had a choice he would have selected a compleatly discriptive domain name.
Why should the f word be void from Internet domains when in some cases Usenet posts are composed of almost nothing but....
Aren't we being a bit prudish?
On radio and TV I understand the point.. broudcast.. etc. But gezz... Make bind filter the 7 words and then let people reg those domains who don't want kids accessing those web sites....
hay instead of credit card varification require adult sites use a 4 letter word that can then be cut off at bind...
I don't actually exist.
...is the free redirector service, www.isfuckingbrilliant.com. (I have http://andy.isfuckingbrilliant.com). They also have isfuckingshit.com, hadyourmom.com, etc etc. Check it out (blatant plug, and I don't even own it... terrible).
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..in the com tld (as of 20001114):
$ grep -c 'FUCK.*IN NS' com.zone
25026
That's right - there's currently over 25 thousand domains registered in the com tld containing those four letters in sequence...
I registered tcpipbitch.net with NSI no problems, and bitch was one of them words they would not register in the past.
I came, I conquered, I coredumped
Yes, it does. It says, "Congress shall make no law...yada yada" which roughly translated means: "Like I give a fuck about your goddamn motherfucking assfuckers who don't like it when I fucking swear."
BTW--NSI registered "likeigiveafuck.com" along with many others (hit the web site and see) so why are they now giving people a hard time?
My journal has hot
Just thought I'd add to the people's resources by pointing this out...
$10/year, whatever words you want (assuming the name is free) at www.domainsite.com. I tested it with various offensive language and they don't seem to censor anything. They apparently are going to be offering a web-based DNS administration tool soon too, which sounds damn cool!
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Try An OpenSRS registrar, like www.easyhosting.com
:) and its like 15$ can. Which is like 8$ american... lol
I could register anyfuckingdomain.com
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Sometimes mucking about with the phonetics gives a measure of success. I've registered phuqed.com without any trouble. .co.nz domain can be registered including 'the big six' which went very quickly. The reasoning was that since New Zealand is a bi-cultural language country (English and Maori) that there was no system so prevent you registering a rude word in Maori ('cooked head' is an example) so instead of regulating more, they lifted all restrictions.
Additionally, in New Zealand, any
Graeme
The story you remember hearing was about the early days of AOL when they installed a filtering program over all their software. It's primary purpose was to stop people creating "rude" usernames and/or swearing in chat rooms.
:-p
It slipped up however when a guy who was trying to register a user account kept getting his application refused by the system. He eventually worked out that it was due to him entering Scunthorpe in his address.
When he contacted the support desk, they evntually came up with the solution that he should use a misspelled form for the name such as Sconthorpe! They couldn't correct the problem in the filters until the next major revision of their software because it was so deeply ingrained in the code! This led to some great jokes about AOL being the company that took the cunt out of Scunthorpe
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
Just a thought.
Greg
A very long time. Its also their policy that you don't actualy own you're domain. And it was their policy to cancle domain names at the drop of an email.
Why anyone would ever want to use NSI is beyond me...
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Yup, And I believe the constitutional test for obscenity is still: "I'll know it when I see it." Sigh...
My company does web-hosting for a number of porn sites, many of which have the word "fuck" in the domain name. The secret is to avoid NSI like the plague. We used to use Domain Wizards, but have since moved to being an OpenSRS partner.
A while ago I came across a page describing someones attempts to register the domain fuck.com. The information may be a little dated, since it all took place during InterNICs monopoly over registration, but it is useful (and somewhat entertaining) nonetheless. The url is http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.htm l.
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It is my understanding that Christmas is supposed to be about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. So what exactly is the issue of using the F-word in a Christmas card to some personal friends. If it was part of an inside joke then apparently these are at least fairly close friends or were at one time.
I don't know about you, but I generally say the F-word all of the time around my friends but try to avoid its use when around other people. Think about the irony in that.
Our supreme court also decided a while back that "obscenity" isn't protected by the 1st Ammendment for some reason.
I wonder if George Dubya's "Strict Constructionists" will revisit THAT one. Heh.
I'm in the 24.222.88.0/21 netblock (Eastlink) and I get the same error.
I'm guessing the site blocked 24.0.0.0/8.
Who would block a class A?
Ah yes, someone running IIS. I get it now.
Just for the fun of it, search in a german or austrian phonebook for strings containing those 4 letter words, americans are so obsessed about.
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Example taken from www.etb.at, the austrian phonebook:
String to search for: fuck*
Samples from the resulting list:
Fuckar Bruno,
Fuckenrieder Annika,
Fucker Friedrich,
Fuckerieder Johann,
Fuckerrieder Adolf,
Fuckner Frieda,
Those names are not common, but not unheard of either. Wank* and Dick* will get you even more names. For Shit* I suggest taking a japanese phonebook, for Cunt* spanish or frensh will yield better results.
Damn those silly americans!
I find it particuarly interesting what has happened when broadcasters have tried to avoid swear words. Red Dwarf used 'smeg' as a replacement for 'fuck', and it is begining to enter the language, being used even where there isn't a Red Dwarf connection.
I tried thereoncewasafucknamedjohn.com in Israel at http://www.domain.co.il and although I also didn't whip out my credit card it said the domain was available.
>> STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM
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Oooh... kinky stuff.
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
I've heard the same song, and I quite liked it. But the words of Anthrax do not an NSI policy make.
Curse words are so culturally bound that the Internet in particular is a bad arena to try to restrict their use. Learn some foreign slang and register that.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
So I read the HTML source. It's mostly Javascript that appears to be written by a non-idiot. Unfortunately, they overlooked some minor details, so the site won't work unless you run Windows or Mac on a 68k. The URL to try is fucking here.
Fuckwits with Flash can try this fucking url
I wonder who owns FuckNSI.com? That was rhetorical - I know who does now. - that's a cute weasel.
Or, less rhetorically, but rambling:
[chaz@phoebe chaz]$ whois fucknsi.com
[whois.internic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: FUCKNSI.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
Name Server: FRANK.BAZ.ORG
Name Server: SOM-NS-1.FSCK.COM
Updated Date: 20-sep-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:31:56 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
So, now you know.
http://www.gonzo.org/fun/sound/fword.html
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I have had great luck with 000domains.com. Haven't had a problem yet with registering a domain name with "explicit 4 letter words".
- Slash
I've had absolutely no problems... no idea why anyone would register with NSI anymore.
The censorship seems to be restricted to US English usage... just tried NSI and it quite cheerfully offered to register (with advance apologies to our French speaking readers) encouler.com, and while poofter.com is taken, it suggested pooftercentral.com which is available.
.com startups? They must have registered somewhere.
Also, what about that famous site parodying Fast Company magazine and cataloguing the demise of silly
"Can I get a witness?"
... ?
... I would just appreciate case
What? Whereabouts can one feel confident that
they can say anything they want
I believe you
examples.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
Tucows' OpenSRS doesn't seem to mind
The constitution, alas, only tries to keep the government from interfering. Private citizens are, regrettably, allowed to be as dumb as they want.
If your queen ever lets you have a constitution, you should think about putting something like that in.
Around these parts, when we talk about the Constit uti on, we generally are referring to both the original and the changes to it. Sort of the same way that when people say "Linux" they're not talking about the 1.0 release.
Personally, I think the constitution is precious precisely because we can change it, (although I am pleased that it's pretty hard to change). The whole point is that the government is not some static thing handed down from on high; it's something we all do. Allowing the constitution to be ammended is just a recognition that a) circumstances change, and b) nothing is perfect, even if it seems that way at the time.
But you're right about the 18th amendment; that's why we repealed it.
Network Solutions initially allowed all words, then banned George Carlin's "seven dirty words," alone or as substrings, with occasional slip-ups and odd exceptions. The seven words were piss, shit, fuck, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker, and tits.
Isn't motherfucker a bit redundant here, containing, as it does, the subword fuck? Also, what exactly is so offensive about the word motherfucker in the first place? After all, motherfuckers are a fairly essential part of motherhood.
Gandi and most of the Core registrars will register a domain with fuck in it. Gandi is in Europe so they'll charge you with those silly Euros, but assuming you don't have some real shitty credit card that shouldn't be a problem if you're outside Europe, you should be able to find a Core registrar from your country of origin if that's the kind of thing you're into.
It is supposed to be perfectly legal to have the "BIG 7" words in a domain name. A law passed a while back, and the registrars started allowing them.
HOWEVER! Some friends and I decided to check a bunch of domain names the moment these registrars were supposed to have them allowed.... and guess what!? Most of the common domains we thought of that contained a cuss word (fuck, shit, etc.) were already registered... and by who? The US government! I guess they'll pass the laws to allow them, but steal them all first, so they won't be usable.
Sometimes I really hate the government's methods. And if anyone says "The US government sucks," my response would be "Do you REALLY think they're the only ones?"
Cheers,
-Alex
Not to mention $70 US for a name
Mr. Connery. Let's see your answer. Oh, I guess that's your wager, a buck. And your answer? Futter. I...I'm afraid I don't get it.
Oh. I think that you do, Trebek.
Buck Futter!
XeoMage
Solution is simple: someone needs to write a browser with a "ROT13" switch. Then "alternate" encoded domains can be surfed normally. You just throw the ROT13 switch and surf away in the alternative domain. Sites that care can register the alternate name as an alias and exist in both domains.
Sure, it fractures the internet into a commercial, acceptable domain and an "anything goes" domain.
=googol=
Why not find out who http://www.fuckedcompany.com registered their domain through. If that URL didn't trip alarms, then you've pretty much got to be ok.
TheGeek
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Kill the monkey
I agree 100%
I believe everyone has the right to freedom of speech, and everyone has the right to freedom to not listen
You can still insult with "common words" such as stupid, dummy, "what are you? stupid?", etc.
I think what you said, pretty much sums it up!
Just because we have to freedom to offend people doesn't mean we should, without thinking about the consequences. And the people that are easily offended, need to lighten up a little.
Some people are offended at swear words, others are not. The trick is respect the appropiate people (and their beliefs)
So certain words are taboo. Big !@#$ing Deal! (censored so as not to offend anyone ;-)
:-)
I really don't understand why the BIG 7 taboo words all deal with sex, and other bodily functions.
I also really don't see the problem. If people are offended at these words, it is NOT like you're FORCING them to visit your site!
Maybe we need to grow up socially, and understand that words are just that: JUST WORDS! (Yes, they carry a conatation behind them, but if you don't like it, stop listening to them.
Live, and let live. People wouldn't be so stressed out then.
Ah, its a Jamie post.
Thats really interesting. I know several women (in the US) who prefer to use that name for their "apparatus". These women also tend to despise terms like "p...y", "sn..ch", "c**ze", because the have so many implications and extra meanings.
;-)
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?
I suppose I'm not too threatening, presently, but wait till I start Nautilus
You forgot:
10. Semprini
Rhyme does not a derivitive make. A direct descent from 'facit' to 'fuck' is highly unlikely, in my opinion. Facit means to make as in to fashion, compose, etc. To my knowledge, it has no sexual connotations- the Romans did not use such crude euphemisms. Fukar looks and sounds much more like the root of 'fuck'. A good dictionary will tell you the first evidence of the word is 'fuccus', encrypted, in some statement about a bunch of monks fucking the women of some city. (dict.org unfortunately does not have this definition, and my dictionary is not handy.) They identify fuccus as a Latinization of a colloquial, which makes a good deal of sense to me.
You might be right, but to my linguistic eyes and ears, you look quite mistaken. (Many derivitives are formed on the fourth principal part- facio's is 'factus' which results in fact, etc. I have never seen a derivitive based on a third person singular present, like facit.)
At least in the situation I am using it.
I got a free domain from namezero.com and it happens to be: f?ckingjihad.com, whether I can register this after the period that they ask for you to wait, with a larger domain name registrar is a nother question, but at least for now, f?ckingjihad.com is at my bidding. MUAHAHAHA.
Excite games room too - while playing we got to chatting about coffee and I mentioned I liked a particular kind of spiced coffee that a local Arabian coffee shop did.
Except it wouldn't let me say the word 'spiced' as the first four letters were listed as an offensive word. Duh.
As part of a study on offensive words for a Linguistics class I circulated a questionaire in the Residences at the University of Victoria. It listed about 20 "offensive" words and asked the user to rate them on a 1 (least offensive) to 7 (most offensive) scale. The results were quite interesting, as was the reception, but I have lost the paper alas.
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
A short demonstrative snippet:
Below are the answers to many Frequenly Asked Fucking Stupid Questions about isfuckingbrilliant services. If you've got any fucking stupid questions that are unanswered, you can mail them to support@isfuckingbrilliant.com
How do I get rid of that fucking stupid banner?
Don't be fucking stupid, we offer you a free service, all we ask is for that ONE banner to be displayed when someone enters your site, it's not awhole lot to ask for is it? In the near future we plan to have several banner options, such as delay and frames, this will give you more options if you do not like popup banners.
Over here (in Great Britain), wank used to be _really_ rude, but due to over use (maybe through TV), it's not really that rude any more. C*nt is about the most offensive swearword in Great Britain right now, I think. But what will happen when that gets overused? I wonder if anybody has plotted a league table of swear words, in order of offensiveness, and compared it over the years...
Mind you, I can just imagine Great Aunt Hilda being stopped in the street by a MORI pollster, and asked to rank the following swearwords in order...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
This is the first step in censoring; the more that "the authorities" take upon themselves to regulate, the more they will assume to be their right to regulate. Mostly to protect themselves, I think; for example I can see the next logical step in this being "Oh, that's too similar to [large corporation]'s domain name".
The only rule domain registrars should actively enforce, is that the domain itself does not currently exist. That way, they don't have to encase the registration in x different rules and disclaimers to protect themselves from lawsuits.
Scary precedent.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
If you hit their website at http://www.networksolutions .co m/c gi- bin/whois/whois you can get contact info for domains that are registered with NSI.
You can also get the contact info by doing:
whois fuck.com@whois.networksolutions.com
at a commandline.
forge
Or for the full reg info:
Registrant:
STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM)
United States District Court, District of
New Hampshire, 55 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
Domain Name: FUCK.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSOL-NOC) noc@NETSOL.COM
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
703-742-4777
Billing Contact:
Accounts Payable (AP5173-ORG) ap@NETSOL.COM
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
703-742-0400
Record last updated on 04-Oct-2000.
Record expires on 24-Mar-2002.
Record created on 24-Mar-2000.
Database last updated on 23-Nov-2000 10:07:20 EST.
F-cked Company managed to register a domain with that naughty word in it.
I understand that they registered it with Tucows/OpenSRS.
Another example:
In Germany, at ebay.de, you can criticize/endorse the person you bought something from. I think it's the same as with the US ebay auctioning service. If I write "war schnell" (meaning "was fast"), the system rejects this because it parses
- where "ARSCH" means "asshole".
Are there really so many illiterate idiots on the web that the big companies must "protect" us from dirty words like in kindergarten? Or is the problem that it's so easy to sue somebody over anything and the companies want to avoid the paperwork?
Anyway, I think the above is WAY out of line... how does ebay.com handle this?
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Here is a verbatim transcript of Filthy Words prepared by the Federal Communications Commission. (From Law suit FCC vs. Pacifica Foundation).
--- You make things foolproof, and they'll find you a damn fool.
In the UK we're having a cyber-squatting case for a clothing company we have over here called French Connection. They use the initials FCUK as a branding thing "woo-wear our clothes and you'll be sooo cool you'll almost be able to swear" etc.etc. and are trying to get fcuk.co.uk back. However the judge is having doubts about it on the basis that it's a distasteful name. Perhaps actually that's a little unfair to the judge - he does have to bear in mind that the ASA here in the UK (who handle complaints about advertisements) have ruled against them in the past as offensive.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
They don't let you register a company with a dirty word in it, but yet, they are obligated to provide root name service (ie, pointing queries to the actual ISP's DNS server)
It's a very interesting paradox.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
yep... great site... love it...
JDW
One of the domains I own was purchased through Gandi, as they were the cheapest registrar for single domain registrations at the time (at 12 euros = ~ C$16, US$10). I'm not sure if they still are, though. Anyway, they are based in France, and don't seem to have any problem with registering names containing ascii (102,117,99,107) or various other things. =)
I don't get it?
None of those words are dirty! Or do you expect someone to be "offended" by nonsense like "feck","cknt", or "c%wboy neal"?
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Go ahead, blame me... I voted for Nader!
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Go ahead, blame me... I voted for Nader!
Couldn't you just use "Belgium" instead?
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
The funniest word which the server refused was "evangelisluterilainen". That's Finnish name for "Evangelic Lutheran" (the major Christian sect here), and it seems to be the only Finnish word that contains the letters "*slut*".
Slut also means "closed" or "end" in Swedish. No sluts for Microsoft, eh?
Ps. I hope I haven't doomed Slashdot to be eternally blocked by major filtering software by saying the horrible dirty word... EVANGELISLUTERILAINEN!
Startin Up a Posse by Anthrax, off of Attack of the Killer Bees. Great band, great song, great album, although I would highly recommend checking out the album Spreading the Disease as well. Actually, any old Anthrax is great; their new stuff with the new lead singer is decent, but it sounds a bit forced, while classic Anthrax is just metal thrashin' fun. :)
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
I know you're a troll, but I'll bite...
:-), and should be referred to as such. I mean, really people, we've advanced way too far technologically to still be saddled with this pathetic Dark Ages Christian taboo bullshit...
Fucking is a wonderful act (without which none of us would be here), yet the only verbs for having sex are taboo... sorry, but what the fuck is up with that?
Note: In the more "acceptable" phrasings like "have sex" used above, the wonderful verb for having sex--fuck--is replaced by a noun--sex--and coupled with the generic verb "have", which can be used equally well with ice cream as with sex. Fucking, if done right, is definitely a verb--NOT a noun--for both parties involved (hopefully, since it's not much fun if either person just lies there
Network Solutions initially allowed all words, then banned George Carlin's "seven dirty words," alone or as substrings, with occasional slip-ups and odd exceptions. The seven words were piss, shit, fuck, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker, and tits, preventing names like "scunthorpe.com" and "shitakemushrooms.com."
.coms, .nets and .orgs, and many of them took any name you wanted, and most still do. There was a piece in Slashdot about this at the time.
In late 1998 NSI started allowing "shit." In July 1999, other registrars were granted authority to register
NSI and Register.com still refuse, perhaps to appease current and potential investors. (Register.com had IPO aspirations a while back) On the other hand, I think bulkregister.com, with no rules, has overtaken register.com as the #2 registrar, which can't be appealing to investors.
A lawsuit was filed by a person wanting to register obscene names in early 1998, so NSI registered them on behalf of the United States Attorney General to hold in escrow pending a decision. That's why fuck.com, for example, is registered by NSI to a US District Court. It's been a long legal process, and from what I gather, NSI fucked up and forgot to renew registration on at least some of them. As a result, NoNameCorp (who sucks up most good expiring domains) landed motherfucker.com when it expired in March.
For a human being, a broad-minded, tolerant outlook is something to strive for; intolerance is normal. For a computer, it's just the opposite. Aloof disinterest in the content of strings is normal - prejudice has to be programmed.
Fuck is such a flexable word.
it can be used for love , anger , pain.
as in this example from Dr.Demento the Definition Of fuck.
This guy should look up the word "articulate" in the dictionary.
Unfortunately there is no web site, but at least you can ping bad.mother.fucker.dk :)
I had the same problem. I went to names4ever.com, and now me and my dopemotherfucker are very happy.
Yes. Now that RIP has been passed we have the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.
Funny, I thought that was the First Amendment that did that....
Which means that your precious constitution has been changed - how many amendments are there now?
What was the Eighteenth amendment.
Now tell me how the constitution protects you?
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I hereby inform you that I have NOT been required to provide any decryption keys.
I know, it's not easy etc,etc. But it does happen, and prohibition was an illustration that it isn't always that hard to change. I know that was repealled, but that was yet another change.
What if the first amendment was repealled? Can't happen? Why not?
What if the Constitution is quietly ignored?
How exactly did the Fourth Amendment protect Steve Jackson Games from the Secret Service, for example?
Q. When is a democracy not a democracy?
A. When the gut who gets the most votes comes second?
I am NOT anti-US, I just get hacked off when 'merkins bang on about their sacred cow of a constitution without looking how it really works, and when they criticise other countries electoral systems. A lot of people are laughing at you right now guys, it's unfortunate but true.
Sometimes outsiders have a better view of how things work - I.E. 'merkins can have a more balanced view of problems in the UK than we do - and vice-versa.
There's lots of good things about the US, but not everything is good - just like anywhere else.
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I hereby inform you that I have NOT been required to provide any decryption keys.
Therefore it can be changed.
I don't want to mock the U.S. - there are plenty of good things about it, but there's also lots of bad things too, or can only a USian criticise the U.S.?
The British Empire never ruled the world, just quite a large part of it, if it had ruled the world, well, it probably still would.
It's not as if the US isn't a colonial power too, or am I mistaken about the status of Puerto Rico? And what's the deal with kidnapping a foreign a Foreign Head of State to try him in the US for crimes against US but not local laws allegedly comitted NOT on US soil?
What would US reaction be if Clinton had been kidnapped to stand trial for adultery in an Islamic country? Remember in some parts of the world this is a VERY big deal.
Just look at your own country with the same critical eye you look at others, and don't get upset when people from other countries react to a USians smug criticisms by responding in kind.
As for comaprable systems, hmm try China - a military superpower too, larger population Arguably works better than the US, not a democracy of course but you didn't specify that.
For a larger democracy (but admittedly not yet as much military power) have a good look at India, they do rather well with a largely illiterate population. Admittedly they have a rather dynastic approach to democracy, but then with Gore and Bush so does the U.S.........
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I hereby inform you that I have NOT been required to provide any decryption keys.
Q: What will you bring to the oval office?
GWB: A can of lysol.
Ewwwwwww! Your roomate brought someone home again. There goes your sleep. Turn on the vent fan, and eat breakfast out. God knows what you will find in the shower (Hint, your roomate and you don't have red hair). Who's going to clean the drain?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I'm glad you found your soul mate, but I'm not as happy that she teaches junior high. Do you two really think of sex and shit all the time or do you just use the words without thinking?
A related question is why you would want to talk to a child about sex, or why you would even think of such a thing around children? What on earth are you thinking?
I have no reason to doubt my wife, sister, mother and other's word on the shock sex was to them. It seemed strange to them, even though they were told it was natural. Take it for what it's worth, there are people in the world that don't think like you and your wife. Not everyone is exposed to that kind of thing, and they prefer it that way.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
There is a time and a place for everything. George Orwel's description of the Spanish civil war could have used the words shit, turd and crap at least once for variety and sharpness. He chose the words dung, and human excriment instead which worked well enough. After reading him, you will never look at trenches the same way again.
You would do yourself a favor to try not to think of such common, and usualy unpleasant things. If you can't do that, you might try to remove them from your speech so other people will not associate you with such stuff.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I use www.easyspace.com because they are super cheap (And I mean REALLY cheap) and because they dont give a rats ass what domain I want. I went through the steps of registering www.fuckchristmas.com and they didnt have a problem with it, I just stopped short of giving them my credit card number. So, it's still available if anyone wants it. I would also suggest www.fuck-santa.org
-Josh
NameSecure.com is your place. At least it was my place. About a year ago I purchased itfuckingsucks.com, as a joke I had going with my coworkers. It was the standard price of $35 a year, and they have decent support, like dns changes withing 36 hours. I'd suggest it to anyone looking for this such thing.
Th
I sure wouldn't want to offend anyone by saying such bad words as f*ck, sh*t, ect. Our culture is just stupid for thinking it can censor the net or anything else from offensive words/acts. Like no one on TV doesn't know what word they were REALLY saying. R!O!N ---------------------------------------------- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. ~ George Carlin
R!O!N
I wish that people weren't so ignorant. An amendment to a document is considered PART OF THE DOCUMENT!!! Someone hanging out in even a semi-tech forum like this should know that.
Anyway, this brings up something that has been annoying me for the last few weeks. People from other countries have been looking at our FUBAR election and bitching about how "Uh, yore system doesn't work... huh huh... Divided country...you guys suck...etc etc."
The reality is, our system DOES work. Of course it isn't perfect. Show me something that would work better with our size, populace, and power that is currently working somewhere else in the world. I find it funny that Brits feel the need to mock our system when the U.S. is the nation that has become the most powerful nation with the highest standard of living (for its size) in the world and good ol' England has been reduced to not much more than a smelly relic. Sure, you guys WERE powerful, you DID rule the world, but here we are, consti-frickin-tution and all, and I suppose you could say we have made do.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Here's a few that work (and some are taken)
Whois
Domain fuckthis.ca
Organisation TCI
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/18
Date approved 2000/11/18
Yet,
Domain fuck.ca is not available.
01043 Domain name is restricted
Hrmm? Domain fucker.ca
Organisation most wanted domains, inc.
Registrar Echelon Internet Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
And yet another:
Domain shithead.ca
Organisation Jaiveer Singh
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
So far, 3 for 4.. Too bad they are all taken.
tinfoilmedia
The framers of the Constution felt that the document proper should do nothing but describe the workings of Government.
The first ten amendments, called the 'bill of rights' were planned from the outset, infact, some states only ratified the Constution on the understanding that those ten amendments would be ratified once the Constution was in place.
As far as the eighteenth amendment goes, something nightmarish like that happens every time there's an unhealthy rash of conservitisim in this country. And it was quickly repealed.
Jordan Bettis
``Wherever you go, there's another stupid sigfile quote.''or ..
"Everythings fucked, so i guess its
time it got unfucked ?"
hmmm..
unfuck.org (12 euros.. fucking eh!)
Check with fuckedcompany.com, they seem to be alive and well.
We don't prohibit those words in domains though, as proved by the (unoffensive unless incorrectly snipped) soccer club site at http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Do a search on Napster for "The Word Fuck" and listen to the MP3. You will find it hillarious.
I just wanted to say this has happened for quite a long time. Apparently this has been changed with the influx of new registrars. fucksprint.com registered by alt.2600 is one example.
But anyway, I tried to register a equally foul domain name a few years ago and NSi rejected it for the same reasons. I then got pissed and contacted the ACLU which said they would not help because NSI is a corporation and can basically set their own policies. I tried to explain that they had locked the entire registration process down (at the time they did) and had a monopoly on the registration. Makes sense. They had bigger wars to wage at the time also.
Oh well, it was a nice try and eventually enough people like myself screaming that "NSI sucks!" changed things. Now that I can do it I really don't want to.
- just my little tid bit
I wonder what they'd do with a domain I ran across once. I was following links from a web page of a fellow I know who does fight orchestration, and one of the links was to a page for something called the Actors' Exchange...but when I saw http://www.actorsexchange.com/, I thought "Actor sex change?! Seems like an awfully limited clientele..." I hasten to add that the site is a fine one, and has nothing at all to do with what I originally feared.
When I was registering my site fuckeverything.com a few months ago, I ran into the same problem. My solution was to register through one of the many registering services out there. It cost about $35 more than I would have paid if I had been able to register it normally, but it did get registered.
forl
.oO0Oo.
falling on the rug laughing
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
yes, I much prefer the capacity being used for the relentless pursuit of capital.
.oO0Oo.
domain names want to be free
mail me :
skwid\
@\
fuckyou.co.uk
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
www.domainsatcost.ca will let you register any domain that is available with a .com, .net, .org, and .ca tld. I just tried diefuckhead123 and if found .ca, .net, .org, and .com as all being available.
Anthony Pritchett Mosaic Web Design ICQ:2669369 tony@mosaicweb.ns.ca http://www.mosaicweb.ns.ca
What a coincidence. I'm just starting a remarkably similar survey for my statistics class.
"An investigation into the relative offensive nature of selected cuss words and racial slurs."
:D
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It's all about the relative offensive nature, so they'll all be in the same context. The idea is that if "my cunt hurts" is more offensive than "my ass hurts," then "you cunt" should be more offensive than "you ass."
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Cohen vs. California, 403 US 15, 18 (1971) ... Protecting Non-spoken Free Speech since the 1971. :-)
Admittedly the internet isn't governed by US Supreme Court decisions, but NSI is...
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News for Geeks in Austin, TX
I've only just seen this article, and I have to run, so I'm sure many people have made the point, just don't use NSI, IMO they are money-grabbing tossers, there's plenty of alternatives, go to Tucows and you'll find many resellers of their OpenSRS system, like this crowd. The only domain that is not allowed, is 'example' for use in textbooks, plus the tlds themselves., (not the cctlds mind) Blah, I'm rushing. There is no banning of vulgar words in tlds, just some regitrars who are afraid of getting hassle
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Vs lbh pna ernq guvf, ybt bss abj. Tb bhgfvqr. Syl n xvgr.
"An investigation into the relative offensive nature of selected cuss words and racial slurs."
Will you be using the words in or out of context? I ask because it seems to me that the offensive/assaultive strenght of many words depend on how they are used. For instance, "my ass hurts" vs "you're an ass" or to be more extreme "I wanted him in my cunt fucking me" vs "Fuck you, you cunt".
Language is all about context, and while I do find some words pretty damn offensive without any context, most can be moderated or enhanced by the way they are used. After a few turns round westminster, for instance, it might take you a while to remember why the phrase "all my bitches" can be offesive. :)
-Kahuna Burger
...will work for Chick tracts...
No match for "FIKUVIN.COM".
No match for "PATRINFIKULO.COM".
No match for "PUTINFILACHO.COM".
No match for "CXIESULINO.COM".
No match for "FORFIKIGHI.COM".
max
The constitution only protects us from government censorship. Domain registrars are no longer an agent of the government.
-- Fester
-- Fester
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
I once tried about 10 different registrars in an attempt to register "---.com" Speednames was the only one which said I could register this domain. It was only a day later when they sent me another email saying the domain name was illegal and couldn't be registered.
The usage of the word fuck
Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the english language today is the word fuck. Out of all of the English words that begin with letter F, fuck is the only word that is referred to as the F-word. It's the one magical word, just by it's sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as the most words in the English languages, is derived from German, the word fricken which means to strike. In English fuck fall into many grammatical categories.
As a transital verb for instance : "John fucked Shirley."
As an intransitive verb. "Shirley fucks."
It's meaning is not always sexual.
It can be an adjective such as "John's doing all the fucking work."
As part of an adverb : "Shirley talks too fucking much!"
As an adverb enchancing an adjective : "Shirley is fucking beautiful!"
As a noun : "I don't give a fuck!"
As part of a word : "Abso-fucking-lutely" or "in-fucking-credible"
And, as almost every word in a sentence : "Fuck the fucking fuckers!"
As you must realize there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck. As in these examples describing situations such as:
Aggression - Fuck you!
Agreement - Fucking-ay right!
Amazement - Fucking shit!
Annoyance - Don't fuck with me.
Apathy - Who really gives a fuck, anyhow?
Benevolence - Don't do me any fucking favors.
Command - Go fuck yourself!
Confusion - What the fuck?
Denial - I didn't fucking do it.
Despair - Fucked again.
Difficulty - I don't understand this fucking question.
Directions - Fuck off.
Disbelief - Unfuckingbelievable!
Dismay - Oh, fuck it!
Displeasure - What the fuck is going on here?
Encouragement - Keep on fucking.
Etiquette - Pass the fucking salt!
Fraud - I got fucked.
Greetings - How the fuck are ya?
Hatred of chemistry - Thermofuckingdynamics.
Identification - Who the fuck are you?
Ignorance - He's such a fuck head.
Incompetence - He's a fuck up.
Insight - You're out of your fucking mind!
Laziness - He's a fuck off.
Lost - Where the fuck are we?
Panic - Let's get the fuck out of here.
Passive - Fuck me!
Perplexity - I fucking know all about it.
Philosophical - Who gives a fuck?
Pleasure - I couldn't be any fucking happier!
Question - You ain't fucking me?
Rebellion - Fuck the world!
Resignation - Oh, fuck it!
Retaliation - Up your fucking ass!
Suspicion - Who the fuck are you?
Trouble - I guess I'm really fucked now.
Ugliness - You're a dumb looking fuck.
Wisdom - Fuck that shit!
Wonder - How the fuck did you do that?
It can be used in an anatomical description - "He's a fucking asshole."
It can be used in business - "How did I wind up with this fucking job?"
It can be maternal - "Motherfucker."
It can be political - "Fuck Dan Quayle!"
It has also been used by many notable people throughout history:
"What the fuck was that?" - Mayor of Hiroshima
"Where did all these fucking Indians come from?" - General Custer
"Where the fuck is all this water coming from?" - Captain of the Titanic
"Thats not a real fucking gun." - John Lennon
"Who's gonna fucking find out?" - Richard Nixon
"Heads are going to fucking roll." - Anne Boleyn
"Let the fucking woman drive." - Commander of the "Challenger"
"What fucking map?" - Mark Thatcher
"Any fucking idiot could understand that." - Albert Einstein
"It does so fucking look like her!" - Picasso
"How the fuck did you work that out?" - Pythagoras
"You want what on the fucking ceiling?" - Michaelangelo
"Fuck a duck." - Walt Disney
"Why?- Because its fucking there!" - Edmund Hilary
"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?" - Joan of Arc
"Scattered fucking showers my ass." - Noah
"I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head." - John F. Kennedy
I'm sure you can think of many more examples. With all of these multipurpose applications how can anyone be offended when you use the word? So, use this unique flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately.
Say it loudly and proudly : "FUCK YOU !!!"
Some of this stuff goes back a long time! Back in 1995 Justin Hall tried to register fuck.com and ended up with an extended and very funny series of exchanges with various DNS registrars from Jon Postel on down. Take a look at http://www.justin.org/webpub/fuck.com .ht ml.
:)
Interesting... The domain is currently registered.
$whois fuck.com
Registrant:
STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM)
United States District Court, District of
New Hampshire, 55 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
NSI is the Tech, Admin and Billing contact. Looks like they're scared of someone registering it, and also scared of someone suing them because they've locked it out.
I note, interestingly enough, that while the domain has a whois registration, it has no name servers. Try to do that for a domain of your choosing! Perhaps if someone wrote the court a nice letter, and since they're obviously not no using the domain, they'd be willing to give it to someone who might make better use of it
"Everything works if you let it" - The Flying Mouse
They actually allowed someone to register Microsoft.com! How could they let anyone use a name so offensive on the Internet?
But seriously, who did f&%$edcompany.com register with? and f&%$ed.com? (Yes, I do have a problem with my u, c and k $eys. Its f&%$ing annoying)
Personally, I reckong the RIP bill came from watching a little to much Star Trek:
"Guilty until proven innocent?!"
"Of course, brining the innocent to trial wouldn't be fair!"
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We have fought the AC's, and they have won.
lol which song is that by anthrax? must download and listen... i'm guessing they're a heavy metal band?
moox. for a new generation.
Fuck, which comes from the word Fukar - "To Grow"
:)
really now, mr. high and mighty
the first day of freshman latin our highschool latin teacher decided that after we pestered him about latin swear words and would not awnser, he told us to get out a sheet of paper and copy down the vocabulary on the board he was writing down. The first word was "facit, which uses the long A sound, pronounced (basically) "Fuck it". The translation was equally interesiting, having three translations, one being "To make", "To do", and "Do it".
moox. for a new generation.
Of course, if people ever come to think that these are just words then their magic will be lost. And this is exactly what will happen if they become commonplace in domain names.
I'm sorry for the people who can't make jokes with domain names, but sacrifices must be made by all to preserve the unique culture of swearing.
support censorship of swearing today, to protect the might of swearing for tommorrow.
Dear Anonymous coward,
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination..... End of debate !
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some specific laws and how to best follow them as a true believer.
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident that you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
And I leave you with the note that if I felt that the bible was offensive (which I don't, but easily could), the right that allows you to tell us what should be censored could easily be used against you.
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
Kris
botboy60@hotmail.com
Nerdnetwork.net
"Taboo" words originally came about because they offend the church...
In most cultures, this means that taboo words are usually related to religion ("God!" "Jesus H. Christ!", "Damn!" are all examples of this for western people.) IIRC in Hebrew, God has a name, but it's not meant to be spoken aloud (although it's OK to write it in proper context, like religious tome)
In the west, words dealing with sex are taboo because the church has decided that sex is taboo (it's only use is procreation) - so words dealing with sex (Fuck, which comes from the word Fukar - "To Grow") are not allowed to be spoken. This has become less so, but (especially in the US, for example) sex is still considered something that shouldn't happen unless the goal is making babies (witness the criminalization of prostitution, for example.. or the fact that some states still have laws against oral/anal sex.)
What's really interesting about this is the fact that (generally) the west (therfore western religions) consider sex to be more important than god (because saying "Fuck" is considered worse than saying "God!")
Arsenal
Scunthorpe
Manchester-fucking-United.
John
John
(Caution: you may see four ascii characters in the range 97-122 which, when concatenated, offend you.) Where's the capital 'F' in this range then eh!? Come on boy's grammar! Chris
Personally, I use Dotster as my registrar (US based). I just checked, and they don't appear to be censoring anything. Their regular price is $15/year, but if you're patient, they often have $10 specials.
I whois'ed fuck.com and this is what showed up:
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: FUCK.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 04-oct-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:31:56 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
Network Solutions registered it. Interesting.
Well a friend from the UK thought "bloody" was pretty intense. In California "FUCK" was close to "oh gosh" in technical circles. Or like saying " Man, Steve you did that..." Here in West Virginia it will freak old ladies and get strong reproof from adult males if said in front of women one doesn't know. In similair social situations. I mean nothing one would say in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is in San Francisco.
I use "DEVICE" (with emphasis. Saying: "Well she liked the back seat of a cold car and with cold and throughts of police invasions I was glad my DEVICE worked.
As no one else seems to have posted it....
For the 1% who don't know what it means.
Factually its an abbreviation:
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
So when someone say go f**k yourself it doesn't really make sense as an insult.
One site I feel should be mentioned is mikehuntsonfire and also check out
sickfuckers.com
SickFuckers got registered so you're in with a chance here...
FYI MikeHunt is a cool underground site that in their own words "puts out the evilest books, videos & comix this side of hell!"
Oh and their index page is pretty funny because the opening link is "CLICK TO ENTER MIKE HUNT". I know pretty inane stuff...
I never thought this link would EVER be on topic....time to sit back and watch my kharma burn !!!
NSI isn't holding back anyone's freedom. No one forces you to use them. They can ban the word "cow" if they feel like it, it's their system. They have competition now, so if there is demand to regester the word fuck, someone else will do it.
you're aware that the euro has been under a dollar for months now, right? so actually €10 is more like $8.50
I agree! If the doamain is legal to sell, then perhaps they're violating their agreement as a domain agent. Of course, try getting our current crop of "let's clean up Hollywood" politicians excited about allowing FUCK in domain names. A little story: For about a year, I dropped out of my long career as a researcher and worked for a dot-com. They would meet for days on end about what dirty words should be filtered in chat rooms! They'd rather talk about that than actually making the products better. I finally left in disgust, and the CTO of the company who was a main force behind keeping chat clean was arrested for soliciting sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl on the Internet. --
I'm the administrator of whatthefuck.com -- I got in on the first day of ICANN registrations, and got in before the filters went up. There appears to be few registrars left that allow it.. - oZ
- oZ
// i am here.
Didn't I read that the UK was on the verge of codifying citizen rights in some form? And wasn't RIP pushed thru in order to get it done before those rights got enumerated?
Gods, how upset can people get over a simple little word?
I suppose as upset as they get over cloth they call a flag or some damn football team. I don't get this and I don't think I ever will. It's not a bomb or something; where does the offence come from?
~~ What's stopping you?
Check it out. No problems registering it, but we had trouble getting search engines to list it, and seem to have offended many people when we linked to their sites from this domain. Whatever. Also, the folks at datapimp.net have a bunch of dirty domains, including the essential fuckthatshit.org. I believe there was a story on slashdot about registering dirty domains a couple years ago but I am too lazy to search for it....
And i regularly use one to do some disk related stuff on my unix machines..
anyone remember "fsck" ??
:-)
maybe www.sussex.ac.uk will have to get another name for itself :-)
Which is why, based on most regex standards, one should use a ".". Oh well, who the f.ck cares?
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
Most offensive swear word:
Regarding the link to a goddess, it has this to say:
You know, the .nu domain (Niue) means "now" in Swedish. now=nu
"knulla" means "fuck"
Now imagine how cool it is to own "knulla.nu"
It seems that eatmyass.com is appropriate but unavailable. They have suggested the following: myeatmyass.com e-eatmyass.com abouteatmyass.com eatmyassonline.com eatmyasscentral.com
Fuck is such a useful word. Doesn't your constitution provide for dealing with people who are a bit anal about the fuck word?
Since the asterik is usually used for a string of characters in a wildcard situation, it would probably be preferable to use a question mark, no? Otherwise, the poll options could be misconstrued as anything from "Fiddleback" to "Clerihewboy Neal."
J
It's from 'Starting Up A Posse' off the Killer B's album. The song is a heartwarming personal message to Tipper Gore from the boys in the band.
-Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
It's called "Startin' Up A Posse" or something like that, and the guy missed one:
It's actually Shitfucksatandeathsexdrugsrape
these seven words they are trying to take.
It was on Attack of the Killer "B"s and most of the stuff on that little album was absolutely hillarious. But you kind of had to follow Antrax history to get some of it.
Bite my yammer.
isverybad[.com|.org|.net] or areverybad[.com|.org|.net]
You show me a page with meaningful content criticising entity X and I'll create entityx.isverybad.org or entitiesx.areverybad.net or whatever combination is preferred. For instance, http://softwarepatents.areverybad.org now points to the LPF. Let's see people shut down that.
Feel free to interpret my geographically-and-trigonometrically-spamproofed e-mail and discuss the subject with me.
My three current favourite naughty words...
Kn*ckers
Kn*ckers
Kn*ckers
Semprini?
FP.
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
There are plenty of innocent words that are offensive in other languages.
You mean like french company Sodem??
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
And besides, what are the chances that fuckyomamma.com is going to become the next Yahoo or Amazon. Let them have their little domain and watch it fade away. The registrar gets their $75 and the moron gets their yuks for a little while.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Just use Dotster. Better service, security and admin utilities than Network Solutions. And you can use any words you like, including the seven dirty ones. I checked and this domain:
c om
.plan.
piss-shit-fuck-cunt-motherfucker-cocksucker-tits.
; is open and available for registration via Dotster. Proof you can use as many dirty words as you'd like in your domain name.
Some day I hope to have a
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
If NSI has really decided to play censor, can someone please explain to me how FC came into being? I'm sure you know which site I'm referring to- the one that gleefully tosses about the F word at every possible chance. Granted, it also has a URL for the more delicate souls, but still- if there really is censorship, how could FC be FC?
My wife works at a library where there is a "site of the week" promoted. I'd suggested chank.com and it was almost put on their list... until someone watched the link display in their browser and saw the references to fucker.com as elements loaded. Whoops...
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
And when I posted about fucker.com and fuckertown.com, I completely forgot that I have an email account with WhatTheFuck.com!
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
I dunno... i live in australia (darwin :), and up here swearing is pretty common. people don't put f*ck after every second word or anything, but its greatly used to show size, or greatness. eg. it was f*ckin' huuuuge!!!
:) but its probably also the most offensive when your called a cunt.
Cops dont seem to mind the word either... while explaining a seatbelt fine i had a cop tell me "what a load of bullsh*t!"
Cunt is a veeery regularly used term for the yummiest part of the female anatomy
I checked out random .ca addresses with teh f-word in them and several worked, so if you want to try that :)
-DS
Hmmm, I'm not sure I can trust a domain register if they can't even get their Terms of Service correct. "three (5) times", "twenty (30) page", and "three (5) times" confuses me. What are the trying to say?
I have the above web address from register.com and have had no trouble from them. In fact the Citizen Watch company is aware of the address and I haven't heard from their lawyers. Provided my new watch doesn't break down 6 months into a 5 year warrantee (like the first one) I'll let the address expire then they can have the address if they want it.
I've hit Karma 50 and gotten a Score:5, Troll... I win!
One of my favorite sites.
"In the future, we will all have our 15 minutes of privacy."
I really don't see the point. Banning a word won't make it go away, especially words that are so common. In the UK that kind of language is fairly common on TV anyway... Forbidding it makes no sense. And what about words which are swearing in other languages? Filter those as well and there's probably not much left... For all I know, 'slashdot' could be a curse in some obscure dialect spoken by three people. Or something.
Also, not everyone speaks English. There are plenty of innocent words that are offensive in other languages. Add product names and the list is almost endless -- remember the MR2 (merde) anyone?
All those registrars are english-speaking.
If you want offensive names, you should register english words in non-english speaking countries and vise versa.
Example - www.zaebali.com - the same word in russian.
BTW. there are also f-u-c-k.com, oFoUoCoKo.com, fukck.com and variants. There is always a way around.
found this entry at www.m-w.com which
is Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: 1fuck
Pronunciation: 'f&k
Function: verb
Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate
Date: 1503
intransitive senses
1 usually obscene : COPULATE -- sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive
2 usually vulgar : MESS 3 -- used with with
transitive senses
1 usually obscene : to engage in coitus with -- sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
2 usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : CHEAT, SCREW
Its not like its completely slang here. I still think censorship is such a waste of time and money. And the excuse "its to protect kids". Whats it really protecting them from? Nothing.
They'll learn it at school or from the parents before they learn it from radio, television or the internet.
Actually it's shitfucksatandeathsexdrugsrape, if I'm not mistaken - definitely seven words, at least.
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Pokéthulhu
Pokéthulhu
Gotta catch you all!
What?
(0, Troll)
Could the moderators send me some of the stuff the smoke, please.
Then "imagineer_bob" just replies "I agree" and gets a (2, Interesting). And then "Coward, Anonymous" says roughly the same as me and gets (3, Informative) instead of (-1, Redundant).
I am not happy at all.
Do the idiot moderators realize they are just pushing users into becoming Trolls with this kind of behavior?
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Ni!
It's a porn site if I recall. dt .
Their reasoning:
To get back on topic, it seems to me that NSI uses "George Carlin's Incomplete List of Impolite Words" to determine what's inappropriate in a domain name. But still, how do names like f.uk get through?
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
DrQu+xum: Proof that the lameness filter doesn't work.
Registerfree.com doesn't censor domain names, and I've used them in the past. They offer cheap, no-frills registration. Go check them out.
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Natural != (nontoxic || beneficial)
drugabuse.com
minimumwage.com
righttobeararms.com
No, I didn't test them... I was afraid!
-- H. Wilker
of Americans... No offense.
I use speednames.com, they're cool and fast, and mostly pretty cheap. It started as a Danish company, so you'll probably not find censorship there.
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
I find it sad that domain names can go from being freely registered to being regulated to the point of even restricting certain words in a domain name. What is this? What's next?
If the Internet was once a place people looked to for freedom of speech, I think that compainies such as Network Solution and "register.com" along with government intervention are slowly, but surely ending that.
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Los Angeles: 1,000 suburbs in search of a city.
But, on the same token, as providing a service to the Internet population - a VERY diversified group of people, you're kind of required to put up with all sorts of different things.
If you didn't want to run the risk of being offended by viewpoints different from you own, don't become a domain name registrar
What does it say about people like this? Do they ignore the fact that if you decide you want to walk down a sidewalk to a strip club, the sidewalks don't throw a barracade up that says "your direction is inappropriate, please choose another". It's everyone person's right to choose what they want to expose themselves to.
This form of censorship is utterly redundant and excessive. IF you are offended by something, you are NOT going to go out searching for that thing on purpose. If someone's offended by the word "f*ck", they are not going to type it into a search engine. As for those of us who aren't offended, we don't care either way.
Besides, this kind of blockage at a search engine does nothing to keep you from all the naughty words, porn banners, and so on that will be thrown at your face once you start clicking links.
Why do people think they are going to make some sort of positive influence by trying to censor the Net? Arrogant, conceited, and utterly foolish. Stopping the ocean tides would yield better results.
When you do a search for such a domain (fuckedcompany.com for example) they give the following rules:
.com, .net and .org domain names cannot exceed 67 characters total
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
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- Other domain names cannot exceed 22 characters, not including the extension
- Domain names are not case sensitive
- Domain names cannot include spaces
There doesn't seem to be anything there about 4 letter words.
kc.
kc.
"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." - Homer J. Simpson
Confused about my title? It is a Yiddish term and not a curse word - but you know what? I couldn't register it because of those dirty little words.
P 2 P___H U M O R
great comedy company.
What about microsoft.com?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- if you love something, set it free; if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it
It seems really bizarre that registrars should start being so hard on people wanting to use the F word in domain names, since they've clearly allowed them in the past - cf www.f**kyou.co.uk. Have they all just recently turned into a bunch of f**kin' net NAZIs?
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." - Dorothy Parker
at least with the registrar i tried (easyhosting.com). There may, however, be someone to reject it later on.
-MR
-Michael Roy Some people are like Slinkies. Not really useful, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down
Free speech is the major complaint behind all this. Free speech lets use the word "fuck" as we please (although I must say that is a different story in school). Free speech, most importantly, lets orginizations and corporations dictate their feelings. If a group of people are so offended by people who want to use the word "fuck", they have a right to say that is wrong and refuse service. That's all. They can't stop us from using such language. However, as long as there are other companies willing to accept the usage of such domain names, fuckedcompany.com (a most entertaing site at times, I might add) will still exist, for one. There is nothing (legally) wrong when nsi.com denies such service. There may only be a problem is a monopoly dictating such censorship exists, or the government takes a stance and bans the usage of "fuck"
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Faies
There is a wonderful little website putting up info about high-tech companies about to go-under called www.fuckedcompany.com - very appropiate, funny and useful as well. This is a US run site, so someone must have accepted the registration.
See my journal, I write things there
1Coms.com is another great domain service. Only $8.75/year for domains. They dont filter out the bad words either! Woohoo!
Been there...done that. Also looked OUTSIDE of the Book and found much more truth. ...and by the way go fsck yourself
We really need your help
http://www.gofundme.com/help-sherry
It's a big wide beautiful world we live in, and everyone should be allowed to be as silly and ignorant as they want to be. Sure, we who live in cities have to tolerate a little inconvienence, but those bible loving icon worshipers who want to save the interent for the children, they live in the midwest. I think it's pretty clear who got the short end of the stick.
The argument that any outlet of anything should offer you the full range of choices available is, even on its face, not very realistic. I personally think the world and its infobaun would be a fairly boring place if it were homogeneous. The differences are what make stuff interesting, stupid, worthy of ridicule, and the hottest wetest nastiest teenage porn you've never paid to see.
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
You're all missing the point! We need to shelter them from the "bad ideas" so when they read Catcher In the Rye, the impact will be preserved. I know it's a lot of work to shield little Suzzie until sophmore english, but from my own personal experience the effort is well worth it.
See, I have a learning disorder which makes it immpossible for me to understand new words solely from their spoken context. Consequently, when I was around five or so and began to hear objectionable language regularly in school, I was unable to integrate it. By the time I was in sophmore english I still was ignorant. I would read the internet often, so I knew what it was in a sence, but I'd always seen it as "bowl of fukk." We were reading Salinger in class one day, and I hit the pivitol passage. Well I was stunned, and confused. I remember it like it was directed by John Woo, with doves and unnecessary slow motion. I rasied my hand. The teacher came over; I pointed and asked my question. He bent down and whispered his reply. At this point I reflexivly shouted, "No shit? Well sonuvabitch!" I spent the remainder of the afternoon with the vice principal, but wow what an impact!
And the answers to the questions follow: We're saving the children from Sally Struthers, and with a creature of her size we need all the help we can get.
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
I think we all need to remind ourselves of the monty python skit on the word fuck. All those with napster search monty python - fuck and you will find a quite valid and logical explanation. Microsoft..can't live with it, can't kill it
Windows: frustration through ignorane
Use pig latin, uckFay is one word i've never seen filtered in anything.
I tried it on my BulkRegister.com accunt and it worked fine. They don't seem to censor.
http://www.directdomain.com/ will let you register the f-word in domains. I haven't tried any others. Register.com will let you register ass.com (Taken) but not the seven words you can't say on television. No Shit.com, Piss.com, or Tits.com.
It does mean jack. When is the last time you went somewhere for some service and they stated that your opinions are morally corrupt?
That's a tasty burger!