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Dirty Domain Names Allowed Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the "benefits"-of-competition dept.

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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  1. Re:Really? by zyklone · · Score: 3

    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

  2. Link to Carlin's routine w/ the 7 words by ToastyKen · · Score: 4

    http://archive.dstc.edu.au/~bill/carli n.html

  3. Re:Ridiculous... by fable2112 · · Score: 3


    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 ... but you can't write 'fuck' on the side of an airplane because it's obscene."

    *sigh*

    --
    "Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today ... but it wasn't anybody I knew" -The Moody Blues, "Dear Diar
  4. Infinite Untapped Revenue Potential by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 3
    As you know, many large companies routinely buy up likely domains that are variants of their own company name.

    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. :-)