Hi Carlos, I am just curious as to what you think NCSG or even ICANN should do about this. .porn is basically a name and it's sgTLDs does not come up on the screen unless it's being promoted. It's the freedom experience using the internet; one man's food could be another man's poison... it doesn't mean we should stop supply of the food. The institution where I work for instance has a lot of other sites at .com, .net et all which are not registered by the institution. We however have a disclaimer on our official website indicating that our official TLD is "edu.ng". I don't think Harvard's approach is really necessary, otherwise they should be ready spend a lot of USD in maintaining those domains and registering new ones.... harvard.sucks could still be a target ;-) Cheers! sent from Google nexus 4 kindly excuse brevity and typos. On 26 Mar 2015 18:01, "Carlos Afonso" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A terrible result of a new gTLDs' policy devoid of anti-extortion clauses. > Hundreds of new gTLDs whose business model is based on $$$ gained with > almost forceful preemptive registration... All in name of a neoliberal > credo defending no restrictions for new domains. And we (NCSG/NCUC) have > been mute on this. > > Aren't the victims of this extortion a case for our human rights advocacy? > > --c.a. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:55:42 -0700 > From: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List < > [log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List < > [log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Harvard registers harvard.porn > > http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/25/harvard- > moves-protect-its-name-reserving-harvard-porn-domain/ > Ee7P8m1zS9dDMGg69FakXL/story.html > > In an effort to keep outsiders from corrupting their trademarks, area > colleges are snapping up controversial domain names like ".porn" and > ".adult" before they are available to the public for purchase this > summer. > > - - - > > And what are they going to do about harvard-porn.com and > harvardporn.com and harvardporn.org and harvard-porn.org and ... > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein ([log in to unmask]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein > Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > > _______________________________________________ > pfir mailing list > http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir >