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

Still want Internet "internationally" governed?

[mi]

Every time a story like this comes out, I recall the dreadful attempts by America-haters towards delegating the oversight of the Internet to an international, rather than, American body...

Certainly, Ireland is a fairly mild case — the country's ban on abortions, for example, is not as bad as curbs on freedoms placed by the likes of China, Russia, or Thailand.

But it would still suck to see America's influence over the Internet be diluted by that of the (some times much) less free countries...