Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains

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."

Comments

Re:Cool

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

This isn't exactly a huge surprise. Ireland is, in many respects, a fairly civilized country; but it has some hardcore traces of backwards popish hellhole around the edges. Of note, for instance, is the fact that divorce only became constitutional in 1995.

Re:Darn!

[HTH NE1]

Answered my own question, so I'll share: iedr.ie

All applicants applying for a .ie domain name who are not situated in the 32 counties of Ireland, must demonstrate a Real and Substantive Connection with Ireland (with the exception of those applying with a registered Community Trademark)

Examples of acceptable documentation demonstrating substantial trade or commercial activity within Ireland are as follows:

• Copies of invoices (showing trade to or from Ireland)
• High-quality brochures
• A signed letter on headed paper from a bank manager, firm of chartered accountant(s), registered auditor(s), tax consultant(s) (where the tax advisor identification number is displayed), or solicitor(s) confirming the applicants trade with Ireland.

Re:just move out of Ireland?

[Anonymous Coward]

Vive la revolucion!

Phrase you're looking for is 'tiocfaidh ar la'. It's Irish for 'I'm a fuckwit living in the past who thinks it would be a great idea if we all started shooting each other and letting off bombs the whole time just like in the good old days'.

Re:Not so big an issue

[Chris Acheson]

Like lu.scio.us?

.IE Always Been Crap

[meehawl]

I had dealings with the .IE crowd back in the early-mid-90s trying to set up some domains. At the time it was being run by a small cabal of jumped-up sysadmins-turned-pointy-haired-bosses hidden away in University College Dublin (one of the larger public universities in Ireland). They blocked basically every application for any domain name that was any way lucrative, exciting, or with a potential to make a profit, and took an amazing amount of time to actually get anything done. I am unsurprised but a little dismayed to see that the descendant of that dismal sinkhole apparently still possesses much of the same bureaucratic DNA.

Re:Reminds me of Goatse

[RiotingPacifist]

yeah but that was banned for content NOT just the name.

sex.ie

[sqldr]

I just checked it out. It's possibly the most disappointing porn site i've ever seen. It doesn't have any porn on it, for a start.

Re:Not so big an issue

[bigtomrodney]

Also, from their site

The IE Domain Registry is not a governing or regulatory body, but provides a public service for the .ie namespace on behalf of the Internet community.

I am Irish and I'm more than a little bit outraged. For a start, neither of the words in question are taboo or offensive; they are english words of greek origin and are in daily usage. My main problem with this is that it claims to be on moral grounds but this body is in no position to determine what is or is not moral, nor are they under their own mandate a governing or regulatory body.