Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others

Qedward writes "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The organisation said in June it had received 1930 applications for gTLD 'strings,' of which 911 came from North America and 675 from Europe. Saudi Arabia's Communication and Information Technology Commission, the IT and communications regulator, has objected to the .gay string and asked ICANN to refuse the application for the new gTLD. 'Many societies and cultures consider homosexuality to be contrary to their culture, morality or religion,' CITC said. 'The creation of a gTLD string which promotes homosexuality will be offensive to these societies and cultures,' it added."

Comments

Re:... then don't go there?

[Archangel Michael]

Funny, it seems to go both ways, with the Chik-fil-a thing and Chicago/Boston think they can keep an employer out of city simply for expressing his views about .gay marriage. However, I agree with you on principle, if people would quit forcing their views on others, that would be great.

For the record, I'm offended that you're offended that I'm offended that you're offended.

Re:... then don't go there?

[schlachter]

Plenty of Islamist countries don't think murder is bad; especially when it's the killing of women, jews, and americans. I would agree that most Western nations agree that murder is bad.