ICANN Announces ".polinc" TLD for politically incorrect and dangerous-opinion sites

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
Date: June 3, 2005 5:10:52 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN Announces ".polinc" TLD for politically  
incorrect and dangerous-opinion sites


Thanks David, for bringing some humor into this thread!

Way back when, there was a practical difference between a .com  
and .org (cot of registration being one) Network Solutions quickly  
made them all equal. This is at least my own memory, not from a  
privileged position, just as a web guy in the street as it were.

Today you will find the Victoria & Albert Museum here in London  
registered as .ac, for academic: http://www.vam.ac.uk/ The Tate  
is .org: http://www.tate.org.uk/

Sure, triple x's might make it easier to find pictures of 'nekked  
people, but let's not start trying to pseudo-legally try to fit whole  
sites into specific domain names.

And tell me that a site, like my own http://www.against-war.net  
should now be a .polinc due to the current US Mccarthyism in the name  
of patriotism and 'war on terror', that's worth a chuckle!   :-)


On 3 Jun 2005, at 19:48, David Farber wrote:


> ICANN Announces ".polinc" TLD for politically incorrect and  
> dangerous-opinion sites
>
> ICANN is pleased to announce that the independent evaluation process,
> which began last year, has resulted in a further sponsored Top Level
> Domain (sTLD) application moving to the next stage.
>
> ...
>
> The .POLINC top level domain will be a voluntary arena for sites  
> that wish
> to express ideas that are politically incorrect or inflammatory.  
> Sites that
> promote ideas including racism, homosexual advocacy, embryonic stem  
> cell
> harvesting, creationism, evolutionism, opposition to the war in Iraq,
> defence of the liberation of Iraq and other topics that are  
> inflammatory
> can voluntarily register in the .POLINC domain to make it clear what
> sort of material can be found on the site.



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