IP: Food domain found "obscene" or NSI is at it again

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:21:38 -0400 
From: Sharon Eisner Gillett 
To: David Farber 


http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,21485,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.e 


Choice quote (what right do you suppose he is referring to?): 


Gold attached a note from Network Solutions, the 
company that provides InterNIC registration 
services, denying the application for 
"shitakemushrooms.com." The note reads, in part, 
"Network Solutions has a right founded in the First 
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to refuse to 
register, and thereby publish, on the Internet 
registry of domain names words that it deems to be 
inappropriate."