Re: Registration of Common Names

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Thom Stark wrote:

Is that a recommendation for a name for one of the 7 new gTLDs?
Do people agree with the reasoning?

> 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 rightabout 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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Hank Nussbacher
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