Re: Registration of Common Names

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:01 PM +0200 12/28/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Thom Stark wrote:
>

Make it .XXX (that will also keep Daniel Kaplan's "internationalism" alive).

This will also require an RFC defining the various filters that can be
used (or a new filtering standard) for parental control.

Cool! Standards for online censorship! We must be making progress! ;-)

> 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,

Simon

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