Fwd: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn

[Seun Ojedeji]

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" <ca at cafonso.ca> 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.
>
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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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