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?"

Comments

Religious fundamentalists

[lisaparratt]

What? Did you think countries of religious fundamentalism were restricted to poor 3rd world countries?

In a country where you can be killed for simply being the wrong flavour of Christian, is it really surprising that the ymight be a bit uptight about saucy words?

Americans

[Anonymous Coward]

You have to love 'em.

They even look as far as Ireland to distract themselves from their own problems.

Re:Godwin's Law

[rednip]

First post and it's already Godwin time! Is this a record?

I doubt it would be a record, if it applied. Godwin's Law is about comparing something/someone to Nazism/Hitler. The post was an example of offensive speech the should banned before the word 'porn'.

This is Ireland

[Bertie]

They've come a long way in the last decade or so, but when it comes to matters of morality, Ireland's been lagging behind much of the rest of the Western world. It might call itself a republic, but in effect it was run like a Catholic theocracy till not too long ago, with the government taking its lead from the Church, and the Church doing pretty much whatever it pleased, until people started to see them for the bullies, racketeers and paedophiles they all-too-often were and they lost some of their grip on the public consciousness. They only legalised divorce in 1996, and abortion's still not on the cards unless there's a serious risk of the mother dying. The state-owned TV still carries the Angelus call to prayer at 6PM every night. So it doesn't really surprise me that this sort of stuffiness persists.

bi2nat3h

[Anonymous Coward]

Been siiting here Aneother special

Re:Godwin's Law

[rednip]

Of course it was a joke, nearly all AC posts are jokes, most, like yours, isn't funny. Misusing Godwin's law is rarely 'funny', and never 'informative' (as it was when I posted) that post was no exception.

It's Ireland. Get over it

[baomike]

Ireland the home rational , unemotional thought.

NB: I know, son of long line of Mahoneys and Boldricks.

Ireland are retards

[iocc]

Ireland are retards.
I just wanted to say that.
Of course shouldnt a registar force their so called moral on others.