All is NOT smooth sailing in the global DNS world of cross country sales of
Domain Names!


>Date:         Tue, 12 May 1998 11:55:07 -0800
>From: Ellen Rony <erony&#167;MARIN.K12.CA.US>
>Subject:      PIZZA.TM?
>
>NetNames has run into a censorship snag in .tm.
>
>From: The Trouble with Tiny Domains by Jennifer Sullivan (Wired - May 11)
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12226.html
>
>[snip]
>After registering some 4,176 domains, according to registrar NetNames, the
>company ran into some trouble with the Turkmenistan government over some
>domain names that were legally obscene in Turkmenistan.
>
>"Some of [the names] have been found to be offensive," said Robert Hibbitt,
>sales manager at NetNames, which was the technical contact for the country.
>"They raised eyebrows at pizza.tm and girls.tm."
>
>Hibbitt said that the .tm registration is currently on hold pending a new
>content policy, which might include a committee that approves the names to
>be registered. The .tm registration Web site is now inactive, except for a
>vague note on the site.
>[snip]
>_________________
>
>[Note: Pizza.tm?  Girls.tm?  One can only wonder what the TM government
>would think about some of the eye-popping, jaw-dropping domain names found
>in InterNIC's WHOIS.]
>
>Here's the statement posted at nic.tm:
>
>Statement from the .TM NIC
>
>                The response to the .TM registry has been overwhelming.
>                Thousands of names have been registered from all over the
>                world.
>                Some of the names registered, however, may be legally obscene
>                in Turkmenistan, and as a result the .TMNIC registry is
>                reviewing its naming policy for future registrations.
>                The .TMNIC has suspended registrations until a new policy
>                can be implemented. We hope to be up again soon.



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