Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral 509
An anonymous reader writes, "The Irish domain prefix, .ie, is controlled by an organization called the IE Domain Registry. In their terms and conditions they state, 'The proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality.' But this policy is only applied to sex words as this adult webmaster has discovered. Murder.ie is acceptable, Porn.ie is not. Can a word be immoral? And in this day and age, should a government-chosen domain registry be allowed to enforce their own moral code on the public?"
Re:juden-raus.ie (Score:5, Informative)
juden-raus == Jews Out! From the Nazi era, and also a board game - of equal value.
Ireland has got a history of that sort aof thing (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Religious fundamentalists (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Religious fundamentalists (Score:1, Informative)
.US Bans Names Too, such as FuckCensorship.US (Score:4, Informative)
For the timebeing, along with others, it's in perpetual limbo:
http://www.whois.us/whois.cgi?TLD=us&dn=fuckcenso
Ron
Re:Stronger sense of morality there (Score:5, Informative)
I believe it makes them wrong but then I live here. Things have improved of late. I've noticed around the college I'm studying at now that safe sex is promoted heavily - even more than last year. I think there's been a realisation that promoting safe sex isn't promoting casual sex. I know when I'm looking at that chlamidya poster in the toilets I don't care if I never get laid again (althought that soon passes)
As for the
In summary, is Ireland a conservative, moralistic hellhole? Yes, but it's getting better. We no longer export pregnant teens and force them to surrender their children for adoption!
Re:Stronger sense of morality there (Score:2, Informative)
My dear man what are you talking about?! I'm from Ireland and you have not been here in a while if that's what ya think!
Also compared to the US (I'm guessing your american - forgive me if your not) I think calling Ireland conservative is comical! FOX NEWS anyone?!
Ireland has come out of a more conservative age and in the past 15 years has improved leaps and bounds regarding this kind of thing. Every now and again there are legislation that is a hangover from more our more conservative past. It doesn't reflect our current mindset, instead it reflects a mindset of the past. So please refrain from sweeping statements like above!
.ie domain registry is was very restrictive before (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Religious fundamentalists (Score:3, Informative)
Re:juden-raus.ie (Score:2, Informative)
Re:juden-raus.ie (Score:3, Informative)
No, that'll be "bitte". Schnell is the German word for quickly
porn.ie is a poor example, (Score:2, Informative)
Grammar Nazis on line 1 (Score:2, Informative)
That would be the Irish domain suffix.
A prefix would come before the domain.
Re:juden-raus.ie (Score:2, Informative)
In the US the Bill of Rights guarantees that 'Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech'.
In Ireland, the Constitution says that 'The State guarantees liberty for [The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions], subject to public order and morality.'
I doubt the authors of the Bill of Rights would have found the wording of Bunreacht na hEireann particularly restrictive. In fact I think they might have included the bit about public order and morality if they thought it was necessary.
And if you think Ireland is conservative - you need to come here...