Disclaimer: This post is for adults only, should not be read around children or at work, the subject of the article deals in words many will find offensive or possibly be triggered by.
With social networks censoring being in the spotlight this week. Someone asked about hate related domain names eventually being shut down.
On Namepros @Jeffrey asked, Will Registrars ban or delete “hate” domain names in the future?
Now almost 4 years ago I wrote about the NAACP failing to renew one of the most hateful words in the English language. After the post many reached out and the domain name did get renewed. The name does not resolve.
When we look at other domain names that are either a slur, or hate related we see some different routes.
Kike.com is owned by the Anti Defamation League and does not resolve.
Faggot.com is under privacy it’s using Sedo nameservers but they will not allow the site to resolve.
Retard.com is the same as Faggot.com, Sedo nameservers but they will not allow the site to connect.
Dyke.com under privacy, does not resolve.
Wetback.com is owned by Namefind. Parking page offering domain name for sale. Acquired when they purchased Frank Schilling’s company.
Cunt.com is being brokered by Grit Brokerage.
The above is just a small sample of offensive words and how they are used. The question becomes will these kinds of names eventually get banned from registration?
Not being able to be censored is one of the selling points for blockchain domain names like those from Unstoppable Domains.
I own DefundMyAss.com to have a site that sells humorous political tee shirt that help fund projects like Wounded Blue. I wonder how that will fly?
We are all being scrubbed from society.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Great you quoted a slave owner who Millenials and GenZ’s want cancelled.
>Will Registrars ban
Will RegistRIES ban?
Raymond, lets look at this from a different angle.
Today the social media platforms alienated 100+ million of their users.
Before today the atl social platforms and domain names systems had no traction and could not grow because those 100+ millions users felt their needs were being served.
That all just changed in the last few hours …..
What a brilliant point.
The EXIT light in Plato’s cave just came on ….
Amen to that!
I agree Charles. Look I was someone that over 15 years ago said I thought there would be “internets” That countries and like minded people would want their own net and not have others they did not like or agree with on their “net”. It’s like whenever in day to day life or on TV I hear someone say “We” I always ask who is WE?
I to have given that much thought. In the past setting up a simple business card website was hard. Now with all the site builders it has gotten easier, but still captured by the service provider. With a little more effort, one can spin it off to a personal domain name and controlled server. Perhaps todays events will help people better understand the value here as well.
Social platforms are the same. How does one setup the “we” platform when “we” are not geeks. This is the problem the social platforms solved. I recall long ago someone had created a FaceBook like project than any geek could load onto a server and spin up their own “FaceBook” like server. FaceBook destroyed it fast.
Things have changed. The average person still cant setup their own social media platform, but a lot more people can setup social media platforms that they can use. Unifying a cross platform backend search API would allow them to work seemlessly together, but will never happen.
At least now we will have a greatly expanded offering, until trust returns and FaceBook consolidates them into itself. So long as people remember history, the number of offerings should stay larger than it is today, a certain level of distrust will be very lasting.
> hear someone say “We” I always ask who is WE?
Don’t forget “THEY”, works both ways. 🙂
“Retard” in French means “delay” in English
Censorship coming from retards, or should I say IDIOTS, working behind a desk!
I guess Sedo cares more about what it means in English.
The DNS system is becoming a woke Marxist 1984 legacy space.
The Blockchain will takeover, just as the crypto doubters finally accept that this is where things are now .crypto will be the new com
The “state” is no longer really in control of anything. Remember the story you leant as a kid, “The Emperor Has No Clothes”. We did not appoint deep state funded Fakebook, Twitter and Google to edit the world or de-platform free speech. Think on also, a .crypto domain is a one time cost, no fees each year. Ask one question, “who is the state”? God bless the free market, bring on the Blockchain
They better not ban my Hate.com.
Look at what these three have to say about it:
Ben Swann, Truth in Media (truthinmedia.com – what a great domain, ay?)
Whitney Webb
Caitlin Johnstone
And there are more like them.
I looked at the blockchain domainwebsite but I am confused. If the domain is not in the root name servers, it will not resolve for the billions of computers using the standard root name servers.
Your register (if approved by ICANN) has the power to enter a domain they sell to you into the registry which can enter it into the root name servers – making it live on the internet. All the root name server does is point the top level domain to another machine (that the domain owner specifies) which has all the data to resolve the domain and turn it into an ip address.
So you can let godaddy run the name server and enter your data into their machine and they could change the data and lock you out at any time. Or you could run nameserver software on your machine (bind is free and runs on many platforms). and no one but you can change the data. but the registry which runs the root name servers could delete your name at any time or point it to an alternate name server (like an FBI run one).
What part of this chain
1.root name servers which point a domain to the name servers with all the particular domain data.
2. name server for the domain (typically godaddy or wherever you registered but could be your computer).
3. your control (your account at godaddy which permits you to edit their name data or your own private bind machine).
is replaced by the blockchain? They can’t replace 1. All computers ship with a resolver that goes to the authoritative root name servers only.
“I looked at the blockchain domainwebsite but I am confused. If the domain is not in the root name servers, it will not resolve for the billions of computers using the standard root name servers.”
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Yep don’t waste you time on this, companies have been trying to sell these domains that don’t resolve for 20 years now, it is snake oil.