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.
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.
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Subject: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:55:42 -0700
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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 ...
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