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Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others

Posted by Soulskill on from the remind-to-register-the-.notsurprised-gtld dept.

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."

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  1. That is the reason US should Control by superflit · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is the reason US should control the ICANN.
    I said before and I repeat again:

    1. Yes! There is some 'bad' things in US govt.
    2. NO! Serious...NO!!!! They are not as bad as the rest of world (YES, I lived in several countries before US)

    When they ask to 'open' the ICANN to other countries they are telling:
    'Hey, my religious-pedo-friends' are upset that 'some' 'kind' of people are not being stoned and that woman can drive cars.'
    So 'we need more ''democracy'' at ICANN'

    Again..
    Leave it with US, it is the LESS evil.