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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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69.69.69.69 is boing auctioned off at ebay
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 . . .
"A landmark free speech decision held that Federal Communications Commission regulations banning the words from broadcasts did not violate the U.S. Constitution."
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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
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?
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.
Looks like the gov't has registerd it:
Registrant:
ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK14-DOM)
US District Court, Central District of
California
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Domain Name: FUCK.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Network Operations Center (NSOL-NOC) NOC@NETSOL.COM
703-742-4777
Billing Contact:
Accounts Payable (AP5173-ORG) ap@NETSOL.COM
703-742-0400
Record last updated on 02-Jun-99.
Record created on 26-Apr-99.
Database last updated on 13-Jul-99 09:09:13 ED
http://archive.dstc.edu.au/~bill/carli n.html
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.
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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
Netnames is good for determining availability across the various ccTLDs.
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and Registrars.
.com, .net and .org top-level domains.
In regards to gTLDs (COM, NET, ORG), Geektools and Domainia.org do the job - they'll first query NSIRegistry and then automatically query the appropriate Whois database. Note that there's aprox a 4 day lag time between the NSIRegistry's real-time and public databases so new registrations won't showup even though they'll registered. To see CORE registrations in near real-time, query the CORE Whois server direct at whois.corenic.net port 43 and enter domain name and press Enter.
An example of an automated lookup for TITS.COM via Domainia.org:
Domain registry query for:tits.com:
Whois Server Version 1.0
Domain Name: TITS.COM
Registrar: CORE INTERNETCOUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Referral URL: www.corenic.net
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 08-jul-1999
The Registry database contains ONLY
WHOIS whois.corenic.net tits.com
Ron Bennett (COCO-388) rb1000@ix.netcom.com
PO BOX 6532
Wyomissing, PA
19610-0532 US
CORE Registrar: CORE-78
Domain: tits.com
Status: production
Admin Contact: Ron Bennett (COCO-388) rb1000@ix.netcom.com
+12345678
This domain has no NameServers!
Created: 1999-07-08
Created By: CORE-78
This whois service currently only reflects registrations made through CORE as a registrar in the
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.
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
Yes the priorities are screwed up. Examples follow:
1. Ellen getting TV-14ed for kissing her girlfriend, while Dharma and Greg can practically have sex in front of the audience and only get TV-PGed for it.
2. One use of the word "fuck" = automatic PG-13 rating in a move. Admittedly, this is better than it was; used to get it rated R. Ditto for one shot of someone smoking dope. One glimpse of a nude female breast will probably kick it up to R. Yet PG and even G movies can show various and sundry violent acts. A particularly nasty example of this was the NC-17 movie Kids, which is one of those movies that should have been rated R so that parents would watch it WITH their teens and talk about it!!!
3. MTV's silliness about Tom Petty saying "roll another joint" when they've had plenty of songs with more-subtle pot references.
And in closing, the quote from Apocalypse Now: "You can go into a village and bomb innocent men, women, and children
*sigh*
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
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. :-)
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.
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...
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