Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral

An anonymous reader writes, "The Irish domain prefix, .ie, is controlled by an organization called the IE Domain Registry. In their terms and conditions they state, 'The proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality.' But this policy is only applied to sex words as this adult webmaster has discovered. Murder.ie is acceptable, Porn.ie is not. Can a word be immoral? And in this day and age, should a government-chosen domain registry be allowed to enforce their own moral code on the public?"

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A rose by any other name...

[tod_miller]

To be honest, I do not think it is censorship at all. The rules are set, they are not being imposed by a third party, they are self governing rules for everyone to abide by.

And you know what, the majority would agree. You don't like it? Go live in fundamentalist/survivalist camp and then decide who is the kooky one.

There is nothing wrong with keeping society prim, proper, polite and personable on the surface. If you want a domain that allows 'fuck-a-donkey.tld' then go and get one, but don't force those who adminsiter and check these to suffer your personal tastes, and don't cry foul by their decisions. That is what pisses me off.

Meet Bob, he had the same rights as everyone. One day he fucked a watermelon, and loved it. Now he felt that he didn't have the same rights as everyone else and started a campaign for 'equal rights' and 'tolerance'.

Re:Religious fundamentalists

[lisaparratt]

No, it just got brushed under the carpet when a foe with a darker skin popped their head up. Makes far better political capital. You listen to Irish republicans, and they still consider Northern Ireland to be part of their country held by a foreign invader.

Plus, the US really wanted everyone to forget, what with them being responsible for most of the funding for Irish terrorism.

Re:juden-raus.ie

[drp]

What's it like being an anti-semite?

Do you wake up in the morning and blame the Evil Jews when you can't find your slippers? How about when you bang your toe? The Evil Zionist Conspiracy must have been lying in wait for just the right moment to smack you on your toe.

If you really think people in the west are focused on anything other than simply existing happily, I feel sorry for your worldview. There is no trans-national conspiracy in the West to keep the Arab down - in fact, I think you'd find that the West would gladly accept mainstream (i.e. from those not born or assimilated into a western culture) Arab culture if the largest Arab countries would stop stealing from and oppressing their people and then blaming their plight on the Evil Jews.

I can only assume that you live in the US, but perhaps you live in Ireland/the UK - in either case, this point is still valid. For the vast majority of people living in those countries, they don't care what you look like or where you are from as long as you don't act like an idiot. Although, if you really think that there's some sort of quasi-organized racist conspiracy, there is unfortunately little to nothing that anybody can do for you.

(FYI - I did a small amount of research, and the only place I could find a source for the Kissinger quote above came from either blatantly racist sites or whackjob International Banking Conspiracy idiots).

When will we finally move past this stupidity?

Re:juden-raus.ie

[lixee]

There is much greater specific desire to prevent specific countries, such as Syria and Iran, from developing nukes, but, again, it has nothing to do with ethnicity or race or religion, but rather the fact that amongst the leaderships of those countries the most common hobby is blowing stuff up that doesn't belong to them.

I'm kinda confused here. Who's occupying who's land again? Who's commiting mass murder and instauring an Apartheid state?

If it's not stupid, then I guess if we persecute Muslims for 2000 years, and then it will de facto be their fault.

If they continue to resist pillage of their resources and oppose whatever agendas you may have, I say let them have it for 2000 years. That should teach them a lesson!

Re:Grammar Nazis on line 1

[daverabbitz]

WRONG!

because DNS resolves from right to left like hebrew, hence ".ie." is the prefix.