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Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains

Posted by kdawson on from the p.orn dept.

Karate Sid writes "An Irish adult website has blogged about the Irish domain registry banning adult domain names, including porn.ie and pornography.ie. The IEDR's reasoning is that the words 'porn' and 'pornography' are offensive and immoral. Of interest is how Sex.ie took legal action against the IEDR — and proved that neither word is offensive — yet still lost the case, as the IEDR are the highest authority in Ireland when it comes to deciding what is and isn't an offensive domain."

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  1. It's a shame by MBGMorden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really a shame on this. I'd argue that we need more Irish porn in the world :(.

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    1. Re:It's a shame by meringuoid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah come on now. When have you ever seen the sun in Ireland?

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  2. Name vs. content by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this only applies to the domain name, and not the content, right?

    Is there anything offensive about the name "goatse"?

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  3. Darn! by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, there goes my chance to register "p.ie"... by the way, isn't it already April 1 in Ireland?

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  4. Oop! Here we go! by Samschnooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really a shame on this. I'd argue that we need more Irish porn in the world :(.

    Such as....

    • Suck my potato.
    • Eat my cabbage.
    • My limerick or yours
    • Kiss this blarney stone!
    • Lass' ass
    • Angela's asses
    • Manly yes, but I like it too!(Gay site.)
    • Shamrock hard
    • Protestant against Catholic school girls!
    • Catholic School Girls in the North with Big Bad Englishmen
    • Brutish English MILFS and poor downtrodden Irish Lads
    • Big Bad Burly English Men punishing little Irish Lads (Gay S&M site)
    • Irish MILFS and English MILFS licking for a Truce

    Oh God! I'm done.

    1. Re:Oop! Here we go! by ionix5891 · · Score: 5, Funny

      you forgot the following classics:

      Real Sluts 9

      and

      Provisional Lollipops 3

      and

      Continuity Blondes 4

  5. Re:How about pornograph.ie? by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not sure about that one. How about creamp.ie?

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  6. Re:I just shit an obama by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows that the official unit of excrement is the Couric.

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  7. Re:Honestly by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet it seems that nobody's registered usefirefoxinsteadof.ie.

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  8. Hmmm.... by Facegarden · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess i shouldn't bother with my idea for ShitPissFuckCuntCocksuckerMotherfuckerTits.ie then, Huh?
    -Taylor

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  9. Good for them! by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is slashdot. Anything with IE in it is dirty and disgusting and offensive and downright immoral.

    BTW, next they'll be banning slashdot.ie because it contains the word "slash", which is reminiscent of Jack the Ripper and violence in general. They've already banned OJ's domain - (W - W - W -SLASH - SLASH - BACKSLASH - SLASH DOT EYE EEE).

  10. Re:Not so big an issue by Kingrames · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly you have no idea how the internet works.

    Deliberate acts of censorship are interpreted as DAMAGE to the internet, which routes around it.

    This means that the actions of the governmental body have caused irreperable harm to the internet.
    Al Gore might very well sue. That's his baby.

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  11. Re:Nay but I'll tell you bout my 1st time in Irela by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 3, Funny

    tl;dr
    can you try and keep your trolls short, i mean "i just shat an obama" see below, is short, to the point (horrendous display of stupidity and racism) and even partially successful as people will take a second to reply to the troll.

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  12. What they really mean to say is... by Hojima · · Score: 4, Funny

    Irish Domain Registry Banning Porn Sites

    So they're getting rid of the internet?

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