Re: Registration of Common Names

[thomst@netcom.com (Thom Stark)]

Gilles Lerat stated:

> While it is
> impossible to restrict all common names for all languages, maybe there
> should be rules to prevent a company from registering sex.biz, sexual.biz,
> and so on.

This reminds me that, IMO, one of the intial TLDs definitely ought to be
something like .sex, .adult or .porn.  There are about eighty zillion of
these sites, almost all of whom would, I think, be eager to switch their
registrations to a dedicated sexual-content domain.  For one thing, if
I'm right about that assumption, it would greatly simplify the problem
that American primary and secondary schools now have with filtering out
student access to inappropriate Internet content.

What the heck, if the Internet is going to have a red-light district, it
might as well be easy to find..or to avoid, depending on your tastes and
circumstances.

Regards,

Thom Stark

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