Re: [ga] no problem with www.nukeisrael.com

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

What was the domain name and whom was the original registrant
and registrar Danny?

What sort or content do you consider legally as pornographic?
How was such content links depicted or referenced from the
main site?

How is the registry or registrar morally responsible for any
content of any web site associated with any registered
domain name?

Danny Younger wrote:

> Esther wrote:  "it is *not* Tucows' job to be moral
> police or vigilantes".
>
> I'd like to talk about this proposition.
>
> Recently I was contacted by a rape crisis center whose
> domain name had expired.  Upon expiration their domain
> had been snatched by a domain name monetizer that
> (1)copied their former website using a search engine
> cache in order to maintain an ongoing high level of
> traffic, and (2) added large numbers of pornographic
> links to their former website.
>
> While one could argue that no one has the job of being
> a moral policeman (let alone an innocent ISP/registrar
> that did nothing more than allow a registration to be
> processed), this particular case demonstrated just how
> easy it is to use the domain name system to further
> victimize those that have already been traumatized by
> sexual violence.
>
> What happened in this case (mostly due to automated
> processes used by domain name monetizers that generate
> links based on domain name semantic associations) was
> a tragic example of the deleterious effects that
> automated domain name monetization can impose.
>
> In this case, the registrar wasn't under any legal
> obligation to do anything (in fact, any action would
> necessarily have been on shaky legal grounds), but in
> a rare display of compassion the registrar did in fact
> take measures to address the situation by locking the
> domain.
>
> I believe that there are times when we do need to act
> as moral policemen.  There are, in fact, certain
> behaviors that are universally recognized as offensive
> or repugnant.  If a domain name advocates genocide,
> then I believe that we have a civil obligation to have
> it shut down.
>
> If we can use appendix X in a registry contract to
> reserve names such as dotprosucks, then we can
> certainly, as a matter of policy, declare that all
> domain names that promote genocide are excluded from
> registration by default.
>
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Regards,

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