IEDR - no porn.ie

It seems that IEDR still wants .ie to be porn free. It has turned down the application for porn.ie on the grounds that it might be offensive. And yet it is quite prepared to allow an apparent cybersquatting operation register irishindependent.ie (one of the biggest daily newspapers in Ireland), bebo.ie, dmoz.ie, googel.ie (google typosquat), windowsonecare.ie, onecare.ie with registered business name certificates or variations of the words on these certificates.

The story has made it to slashdot.org and to TCAL . The chances of getting this domain are not good. But then IEDR has to be seen to managing something and its management can point to something like this as evidence that it indeed being proactive in protecting .ie ccTLD.

Despite the posts on slashdot.org about freedom of speech and such, the .ie ccTLD is a regulated TLD. IEDR has to conform to the legislation governing .ie and this legislation is more restrictive than that for .com or any other gTLD. This means that terms that could be registered in gTLDs cannot be registered in .ie ccTLD.
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Written by John McCormac on October 16th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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#1. October 25th, 2006, at 5:22 PM.

Well it did get substantial publicity in the form of a Sunday Times article last Sunday. But like most controversial .ie decisions, the buzz will be gone out of it within a week or two.