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Why Not a Politically Incorrect Top Level Domain
Brad Templeton reports that ICANN will soon launch a new top level domain, ".polinc", for politically incorrect websites (ICANN Announces ".polinc" TLD for Politically Incorrect and Dangerous-Opinion Sites).
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.
Sure, but what is the real reason? The $99 domain name fee. As
Seth Finkelstein says,
follow the money. I, of course, would prefer a ".sucks" domain.
via EFF: miniLinks (and, yes, I realize it is a parody)
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1. Seth Finkelstein on June 8, 2005 12:17 AM writes...
.sucks - been done. Five years ago.
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/icann/tlds-march1-2000.html
Permalink to Comment2. Seth Finkelstein on June 8, 2005 12:18 AM writes...
.sucks - been done. Five years ago.
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/icann/tlds-march1-2000.html
I should quote it:
.sucks
This TLD will be used to facilitate criticism of a firm or organization, such as aol.sucks, wipo.sucks, or even greenpeace.sucks. We would not permit the organization that owned an associated domain to also own .sucks, so it would expand the name space in an important way. The domain would also be available for other uses, such as work.sucks, life.sucks or television.sucks.
Our plan is to create an independent non-profit free speech foundation that will be funded by fees from the .sucks registration. The Dot Sucks Foundation (http://dot.sucks) will fund Internet related free speech fights.
We recognize the .sucks TLD will be offensive to some persons, but we do not think that this should exclude .sucks from being approved by ICANN. We believe the .sucks domain will be popular in the marketplace, and also generate important funding for the free speech rights of individuals and small organizations.
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