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Dirty Domain Names Allowed Again
webslacker writes "Network Solutions is unhappy about it, but what the #$@& can they do? CORE, one of the new domain name registrars, is allowing the "seven dirty words" in your domain names. "
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"shitakemushroom.com"
Mmm, mmm, good.
Internet JUNKBUSTER No such domain: www.fuck.com
hmm, www.fuckwindows.com could benefit linux....
http://www.fuckdot.com
I would register this but I won't. I'll give you guys first dibs. What? NOBODY is going to register fuckdot.com?
Cool i wanna be a dj in canada then and play :)
the macc lads "fat bastard" looped
Brad
Except maybe the words:
Wanker
Bollocks or Top Bollocks
Shite
Arse
Gary Glitter
Chutney-Ferret
Fuckwit
and so on....
With not so many porn sites in the UK exactly our own brand of swearing is probably safe from most of the english speaking world.
Brad
motherfucker.org still free
-kindaya
It's a good thing that the domain name registry isn't going to discriminate against speakers of English anymore. Now they too can register sites with the seven dirty words in their names.
Note: http://www.fuck.de "steht zum Verkauf". They want DM 10,000 for it. Is the price going to collapse?
I heard Craig Kilborn say titties last night
Why they were banned in the first place?! Domainname is not broadcasting, it's a locator.
www.fuckyou.com does not come on the screen, if you don't wanna type it.
throw in "FCC v Pacifica Foundation" in that search as well.
I'm afraid that Canadians are a bit more mature than Americans, so I'm sure the situation will be a bit different when the FCC drops its restrictions (3-5 years from now?).
This just makes it harder to find out who registered what. Is there a meta-whois that passes your query to the individual whois DBs around the world so that a search for foobar searches the new domain registrars as well as all country domains (including local country's subdomaining, e.g. foobar.co.uk, foobar.ac.uk, as well as simpler stuff like foobar.to, foobar.ca, etc.)
:)
(this, of course, is directed at the Aussie government, not those fine folk that provide me Foster's Lager.)
(and PLEASE, no this-beer-is-better pissing contests.. I'm partial bocks of all kinds [except that shitass Michelob wannabe crapass ex-fucking-scuse of a bock])
-fester (too lazy to wheel around to the HP console for my profile)
Companies cannot "buy up" all possible dispariging domain name derivatives fo their trademark. There's just too many possible combinations.
FUCK1N6M1CR0S0FTSUXC0CK.COM
See? With just the usual w4r3z letter substitutions, this domain alone has thousands of possible incarnations.
Fuck.com (THEGARYSHOW-DOM) THEGARYSHOW.COM
Kimball, Jonathan D (MM9897) fuck.com@NETS0L.COM 212-656-1484
ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK14-DOM) FUCK.COM
Springsteen, A (AS16338) fuck.com@BENICETOBEARS.COM 716 832 3348
fuck.com (ISHIT5-DOM) ISHIT.NET
I just registered www.forkedup.com. Was that allowed before? I never tried, and I didn't want fuckedup.com cause it has to be at least borderline acceptable.
The notion that "fuck" is an acronym (i.e., that it "stands for" some phrase of English words) is an urban legend. It is entirely untrue.
Fuck does not stand for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (a curse upon Van Halen for using that as an album title!), nor for "Fornication Under Consent of the King", nor for any other phrase.
Please see the etymology of fuck or consult your dictionary directly.
(anonymous because I've already moderated on this topic)Cool.
-Adrec
Nothing good will come out of it, just more pr0n sites trying to lure people into their grips.
Which is kinda sad... Considering all the trouble juvies can get into -- Imagine, a 4 or 5 year old savy computer user knowing more about the birds and the bees than their parents...
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Anonymous Coward 'cause I haven't taken the time to create an accountall 450 quintillion combinations of the 7 dirty words were registered by porn sites in the .net, .com, and .org domains within 5 minutes of the announcement.
Search for "seven dirty words" and "george carlin" to understand that.
69.69.69.69 is boing auctioned off at ebay
Uh huh. Sure. What filter would catch www.fuuuuuccccck.com and not catch www.firetruck.com? Whatever filter you dream up, we can create a domain name with one of the seven forbidden words that will get past it.
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
It's 'shiitaki'.
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
The whole thing is IMNSHO quite silly. Forbiding words in domain names is just plain rediculous. This is typical of the americans, good thing you managed to get rid of it!
After hours one day, I was browsing Fender's guitar web site, came upon the Yngwie Malmsteen model Stratocaster and immediately access to "fender.com" was blocked. "http://www.fender.com/somestuff/custom/malmsteen. com" had "teen" in the URL.
Shortly thereafter I found another job.
In the not so distant past, Chevy tried to sell the Nova in Mexico, and couldn't understand why noone bought them.
After they changed the name to a word that didn't mean "doesn't go" in spanish, it sold quite well . . .
The rest of the world set up their own nameservers and cheerfully ignored anything anyone in the US said or did. At least, those who set up nameservers outside the US did. A lot of smaller countries have their nameservers hosted by a different nation.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
"A landmark free speech decision held that Federal Communications Commission regulations banning the words from broadcasts did not violate the U.S. Constitution."
:(
Isn't the internet supposed to be international and cross national boundaries?
I don't suppose anybody will read this far down the page though with all of those childish foul-mouthed posts further up
That's horrible. I assumed it was someone doing a pisstake of the Evening Standard site, but it seems genuine...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Indeed. In fact, a search of medieval parish records in the UK will reveal what would today be considered obscene surnames, but then were, as you say, slightly vulgar yet acceptable. Examples include Fuckalot and Widecunte. No, I'm not kidding. Still, it's probably a little disconcerting if that's the only thing others in your village can think of to describe you...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
What would be not tolerated when it comes to domain names? If one had www.fucktheskullofmicrosoft.com, should it be allowed? I'm sure the burden of the legal dogs that are sure to follow such a popular site would be on the new owner, but should the registrars be responsible for screening, censoring, and being liable? Anyhow, a person always can add offensive subdomains quickly that include every profanity and hate message. Why bother screening domain names?
And you have the old Bavarian town of ;-)
"Fucking". The roadsign at the town's main
street gets stolen by puritan American
tourists every three months or so
Uwe
Ever wondered whats wrong with the world? http://www.ishmael.org/
.com
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Just save him the search and go here.
So register.com, CORE, and others are finally in the TLD registration game. Why the hell is it still seventy bucks for two years?! I want competition, dammit! I want market innovation! I want to own cockmaster.org for under twenty bucks! ;)
Seriously. Now that there are multiple registrars, surely someone will lock onto the novelty of product pricing. For seventy bucks, I'll stick with the one name I have. But for twenty bucks (okay, maybe up to 40) I'd go get a few more. That means I have to DNS them, host them somewhere, and generally put more money into the economy instead of the cash cache under my mattress.
Remember, kids, competition is Good.
Does this mean someone can register "www.barbarastreisand.com"?
:-D
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John 3:16 - God's Public License
Just because the host name doesn't contain one of the "seven dirty words" doesn't mean that the content of the site won't contain "unsuitable content" (whatever the hell that is).
http://archive.dstc.edu.au/~bill/carli n.html
Internic shows differently...
Fuck.com (THEGARYSHOW-DOM) THEGARYSHOW.COM
Kimball, Jonathan D (MM9897) fuck.com@NETS0L.COM 212-656-1484
ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK14-DOM) FUCK.COM
Springsteen, A (AS16338) fuck.com@BENICETOBEARS.COM 716 832 3348
fuck.com (ISHIT5-DOM) ISHIT.NET
To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the
handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.
I heard someone say "titties" and "booty" on NPR the other day. In a song, actually
JeC
I prayed about it, and God said, "Don't do it!" But I thought, "I know better."
This'll make filtering software work a little easier, eh? Why is allowing dirty domain names such a big deal. I've always thought that the porn sites could then practice a more little truth-in-advertising when setting up sites.
This reminded me of the time when our IT manager decided that the company's web use was needed web filtering and logging software (all because someone in a remote office was offended when she mistyped a website name and got some oral sex site -- we, of course, had to verify this). To express our disgust at this, myself and the other system and network administrators nearly collected enough money to register the domain "www.nakedpeopledoingthenasty.com", create some simple-minded joke website, and then setting up several systems inside the firewall to hit the site about 50,000 times a day. (The fact that this was supposed to go into effect around April 1 had more than a little to do with it as well.) Then we'd wait to see what happened when the web tracking reports came out. As a side benefit, it would have been fun to watch the NT admin try to figure out why disks were filling up with log files.
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
What makes one word dirty and another one not? I'd love for someone to logically and reasonably explain that one for me...
Of course the Internet falls under the US Constitution. After all, Al Gore invented the Internet. If he invented it, he should be able to tell us what to do with it. Even if it is watching trees grow via live videofeed. Hmm, is treefuckers.orgasm registered yet?
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Vote Libertarian!!!
godfuck.com has been in continuous operation for years. Go visit http://www.godfuck.com to see.
An organisation that attempts to seduce mothers? :)
.PsyMonger.
Only Domainbank now blocks such registrations though they allowed them up until late yesterday. But many good 'dirty' domains remain. Just Use a different CORE Registrar. Other active CORE registrars open to the public still accept such registrations and in fact I just registered some more a few hours ago including 'fuckcensorship.com'. I'd recommend Nominalia since their system works pretty well and $68 is the best price around. Just be sure to use your OWN dns servers or since they charge about a $33 surcharge per dns! http://www.nominalia.com/ Netwizards appears to do such registrations, but you'll need to create an acct there first and then wait until it's verified before you can register domains there - or faster, call them first. http://www.netwizards.net Any questions or problems, don't hesitate to contact me and/or post to the following groups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains alt.domain-names.registries There's still some good ones left :-) Good Luck!! Ron Bennett
Completely off topic, but I'm collecting little snippets like you signed off with (If it ain't broke . . . .) which will eventually go into my MOTD file.
Who the blazes is Scott Adams? The name rings a bell, but prehaps it's something American, so we don't hear much of him on the East side of the Pond?
Here's one in return:
[concerning miracles]: "a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"
David Hume, Enlightenment period philosopher ca. 1760.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
http://3233624969/atrox/slashdot/Comedy%20-%20Uses %20Of%20The%20Word%20Fuck.mp3 [566 KB]
Sounds like a radio-record, so I hope its ok to put it online.
That instead of the poncy oedipus.com we can have motherfucker.com? Woohoo!
The race is now on, of course. First, there'll be fuck.com
then fuckfuck.com
then fuckfuckfuck...
If anyone cares, this is my fuckiest post ever.
--- "If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
go there. check it out. he's even selling e-mail addresses for $25 for one year.. WOOHOO!
I don't know exactly how he got fucker.com, but he's had it since before '96.
Also, go to www.chank.com and pick up some cool ass free fonts. (free beer, not.. nevermind)
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I run BeOS. The rules don't apply.
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I run BeOS. The rules don't apply.
I don't know if anyone knew about this, but in Canada we have no restrictions on what words can be used on the radio. The CRTC has taken a stance that Radio stations can decide for themselves if they choose to play music with swear words in them, or to bleep them out.
They realize that most (if not all) Radio Stations do not want to risk losing listeners by using obsenities, so you will rarely hear any. Gee, self regulation can work...
there is still work to fight the censure: you post is illegal in Australia :-(
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
I tried to register fuck.com, and got the following message:
"You cant register that domain at this time."
Grr....
--BlueLines "The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity." -anonymous
Well, isn't this ironic. I think the government is overstepping its bounds just slightly here. If Spencer Abraham's Anticybersquatting Bill passes, this should be the first domain to be sued, because I don't think the government has any plans to use this domain name. And if they do, what are they going to use it for? May I suggest that they use it as a public forum for anti-government expression? (Check out this bill S.1255 at Library of Congress; I think Sec 3(B)(ii)(II) would be the appropriate section under which to sue.)
DNA is a Turing machine. You, however, being dynamic and emergent, are not.
Sheesh. Mrpunch is right; the government did NOT register f*ck.com; it is merely holding onto to that name pending a court case in New Hampshire regarding the First Amendment rights of the people who DID register it. (They are suing NetSol and the government on the grounds that, since the Commerce Dept. mandated domain names, this constitutes prior government censorship. NetSol holds that they are a private entity, and thus have a perfect right to censor.)
DNA is a Turing machine. You, however, being dynamic and emergent, are not.
according to this.
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(you'll have to click through for the whole speech.)
I'm not gonna print the words cos there's a mixed audience on
Websites like this, for example:
http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/
Don't hate the media, become the media.
To think that they would actually ban these "BAD" words in domain names? Why the would anyone be so stupid as to do that. What you don't
want your children to see your links to shitfetish.com? assfuck.com? Hey maybe those domain names offend someone. Guess what, it doesn't
offend me. If it offends you I suggest not having and children that are weak and can handle real life like you. PLEASE don't have children. I
BEG you. We don't need anymore weak people on this planet. If you can't handle words, bloodshed, brutality, and sex, please do not have
children just like YOU.
Like TV if it offends some people, they have to take it from the rest of the people. But with TV they don't want children exposed to those
words. What about when the kid's dad comes home and says 'Johnny get the fuck out my chair and turn that shit off before I beat you into
therapy. and get me another fuckin' beer you cock.' If children can handle the violence at home, they sure as shit can handle the violence on
TV. There is no point in creating the illusion that the world is a happy place. Children will grow up soon enough and find out they've been lied
to their whole childhood.
We really don't need another web site about Microsoft technical support.
Come play Heroes of Might and Magic Mini online.
Yawn.
No sig.
fuck.co.uk has existed for years. Gotta love the Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klub!
No sig.
microshit.comg
winfuck.org
(enter-hated-OS-here)+(enter-obscenity-here).or
...etc...
No sig.
I do not understand what's wrong with these 7 :-)
words. I do not even know which words they are.
But I am sure this is not to protect children
because children know them for sure. It must be
to protect non-native English speakers in case
they find out the dirty truths of English too soon.
While visiting Canada a few years ago, my fellow Americans and I were pleasantly surprised to hear *all* the words of a then-popular Alanis Morriset(sp?) song on the radio. The Australian who was with us looked at us like we were from Mars: "I thought you had free speech in America?"
Then Aus. passes their 'net censorship bill... go fig.
unclefucker.com
fuckbush.com (I bet he missed that one)
Hey! Get it right! It's shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. His Most Holiness George Carlin has given us those words in His own order, and we must repeat them precisely.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
"Hostie de calice de tabernacle, Windows NT est encore fucke'!" is an integral part of the colorful metaphors of Quebec francophone sysadmins... ;-)
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More relevant, probably, is whether it is "appropriate and necessary" to ban using these words for domains. No, I don't see a lot of socially relevant content coming out of these domains, but on the other hand, what damage are we doing by letting then be taken, as opposed to setting more precedents for censorship by banning these domains. And it's not like it's going to make it any easier to find porn, you can't get much easier than it is now...
Geek-grrl in training
"We're gonna go to the mall and window shoplift."
To truly understand recursion, you must first truly understand recursion.
What an entreprenural recipe for guaranteed success! Rake it in baybee. Watch those domains get sucked up. These guys [CORE] are going to cream it big time.
err... you know...it...cream....nothing...
BLAMMO shaken not stirred
Hmmmmmm,
:) ) used for web site addresses. Nothing good will come out of it, just more pr0n sites trying to lure people into their grips. Which may be good for some people I 'spose, but most won't appreciate.
Makes you kinda wonder what kinda web sites will arise, using these new "allowable" website names. Probably not anything to benefit linux methinks. While I think that free speach and all should be upheld, I'm not sure that it is appropriate and necesary to have the seven dirty words (which, btw, George Carlin does a very amusing skit to, gonig to see him Fri
-Foxman
-"We have to get ready for tomorrow! Why what are we going tomorrow Bill? The same thing we do everyday, try to take over the WORLD!"
S.t.e.v.e.
I wonder how much the Gov is going to sell it?
:^}
Steven Rostedt
-- Nevermind
Ahhh what a relife.
Filtering out websites with unsuitable content will now become a piece of cake.
//Pingo
--- Linux or FreeBSD, it's like blondes or brunettes. I like both. ---
You would be pretty naive not to know what these words are. And not just from the media - I learned the old fashioned way, from adults!
On a funnier note, my mom bought a bunch of white erasers and gave me some. "Mom," I said, "Why'd you give me this f*8cking eraser?" She was appalled. "But Mom," I said, "That's what it says right here on the side "Fuh King". It's a Fuh King
Eraser. LOL made in Hong Kong, you wonder how the company would think that there was nothing wrong with that name!
Really? That is so funny :-) Newfoundland is bad for names like that too. There's lots of sexual sounding names down there...oh yeah, the Greek word for flashlight sounds like f too...I thought sh*t was allowed because of Japanese words, like sh*ttake.
Well, I always thought that disallowing dirty domain names was kind of silly. And of course, www.fuck.com is going to get hits from bored teenagers in much the way that 1-800-FUCK-YOU would get lots of calls.
However, I find it strangely disappointing that people can't come up with anything more interesting or intelligent. Someone posted about www.oedipus.com instead of www.motherfucker.com
Of course, it's less and less relevant to keep censoring the Seven Dirty Words (even though radio still does it) because they're not considered the ultimate obscenity anymore. I don't swear all that much (four years of being a college DJ taught me to watch my mouth), but I don't feel as nasty about using the "F" word as I do about using the "N" word, for instance -- even if I'm quoting someone else (and I'd never use the "N" word of my own volition, except possibly in a story).
The culture has changed. Medieval Catholics' ultimate "cuss words" were blasphemous, and "fuck" was a slightly-vulgar-yet-acceptable verb. (Chaucer has a character "go to take a piss" in one of his Tales
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
Weird, I previewed and everything, but the URL disappeared.
Here it is: http://www.within.com/~chandhok/robvscs.sh tml
:)
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
A good question. I assume that since .com, .org, .gov, and .net were originally registered by US citizenry, while other countries added the .uk, .ca, .au, etc. (not intentionally leaving anyone out), it is kind of landmark for us (US citizens) to reclaim some of our free speech rights.
.com, etc. names; however, the US Federal government may still think it has the right to administer them. If the CA courts ban the use of the names; maybe a non-US /. can try to fight it in an international arena.
I do not guess that there is any restriction on anyone using the
FUCK stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge", or "fornicate unlawful carnal knowledge" i.e. having sex with someone when it is unlawful. It is, however, pretty damned old term. Back then any non-church-condoned sex (out of wedlock) was unlawful.
Find a legal dictionary.
ps the french don't speak english. they didn't back in medieval times either.
`/\/\
(^.^)
(")(")
not quite an analog pussy, just a cat that plays with vinyl
explain this to me:
Registrant:
ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (MOTHERFUCKER2-DOM)
US District Court, Central District of
California
Los Angeles, CA 90012
For example, consider the mythical corporation named `XXX, Incorporated'. Their domain of XXX.com is probably not the only one they happen to own. They often also own XXXsucks.com as well. Now suddenly they need to rush out and buy up fuckXXX.com as well.
Now, apply this to zillions of companies, and it sure looks to me as though this is a way to generate a lot of cash quickly. In other words, a get-rich-quick scheme. :-)
Well, hey, if the KKK can have a website then why not assfuckers.com?
Really, such a big fuss over so much nothing.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
I believe that this is one of the domains turned over to the court pending a suit against Network Associates. Check it out at news.com
A plush toy manufacturer approached a Web-design and hosting company about creating a Web site for their company. It was agreed on that 'plushitems.com' would be a good domain to promote the site with. InterNIC wouldn't register the domain because it contained...yep, you guessed it.
it was a rough translation, and the explanation in short form. *shrug*
The history behind the word "fuck" is quite interesting. A friend of mine who was a linguistics student was doing some research and found this, (and a few other that are quite interesting out...)
After the Black Death had ravaged Europe, the economy was dismal, due to a majority of the peasants having died. This is not the only reason, however, as some of the local barons and lord (and such forth) were afraid that the peasants might actually be able to rise up against them, or, that other land owners would come, and attack them for the peasants..
In any case, (if I remember right, it was the King of France) sent word amonst the entire land, commanding everyone to fornicate..
ie: Fornicate Under the Command of the King
or, fuck.
history is an odd, odd thing...
ShadowStar