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Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS
From: Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:34:04 +0100
On Thursday 18 Aug 2005 9:20 am, Abhishek Verma wrote:
My question is why cant we ban websites like, say, alqaida.com (hypothetical name), etc. from the whois database.
If we, is the US department of commerce, the answer is probably yes. The only operational significance, is that there is no way easy way of estimating in advance the effect of removing valid DNS information from the system, unless you are the administrator of the system concerned (and even then mistakes happen - not when I do it of course<cough>). i.e. It may be that a nameserver called "ns1.example.com" supports domains in a completely different TLD, like "example.co.uk", which belongs to an important organisation or service. That said spammers routinely have domains, and nameservers, removed with very little if any damage to legitimate Internet users. The real question is should we, words don't kill people, people kill people.
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- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS, (continued)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Jeffrey I. Schiller (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Conrad (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Steven Champeon (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Randy Bush (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS William Allen Simpson (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS bmanning (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Geo. (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Florian Weimer (Aug 18)
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- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Jay R. Ashworth (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Steven J. Sobol (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Abhishek Verma (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Randy Bush (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS Hyunseog Ryu (Aug 18)
- Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS William Allen Simpson (Aug 18)