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        Naughty Words in Domains
        Posted by jamie on Thursday November 23, @02:45PM
        from the faq dept.

        benny_c writes "I decided to make an online Christmas card for 
        my friends, and the domain name I was after has the 'F word' in 
        it. While I am articulate enough to speak without dropping that 
        bomb (most of the time), it is an integral part of the running 
        joke behind the site. I was somewhat disturbed when I tried to 
        search on nsi.com which returned the message 'The domain name 
        requested was not accepted because it was inappropriate.'" The 
        story continues, read on. (Caution: you may see four ascii 
        characters in the range 97-122 which, when concatenated, offend 
        you.) 

        register.com just said the site is unavailable, as is any other 
        domain which happens to have the wrong string of four letters 
        (even when surrounded by giberish ... try searching for 
        something like ewqsdfuckdfd). I am sure that if I keep looking I 
        will find another registrar who does want my business. I was 
        wondering though whether anybody else has had potential domain 
        names censored for something other than the 'F bomb', and what 
        else might be taboo amongst the registrars.' 

        The secret is to speak another language, or find a friend who 
        does, and register your domain using a registrar based in a non-
        English-speaking country. I speak a little German so I tried it, 
        and while I didn't actually spend the money to take the final 
        steps, I was told by three separate registrars that "Die Domain 
        fuck12065237.com ist noch frei!" 

        If anyone tries this, let us know how it works. If you find any 
        other taboo words, in English or any other language, tell us the 
        details! 

        Here <http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html> is 
        the list of accredited registrars, including many in non-
        English-speaking countries.

        http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/23/1512232


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