No More Porn in .ie

By Michele Neylon on April 13, 2007 11:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

John mentions that the IEDR have finally done something about porn.ie and added it to the blocklist:

blacknight@siracusa:~$ whois porn.ie

% Rights restricted by copyright; http://www.domainregistry.ie/copyright.html
% Do not remove this notice

domain:      porn.ie
descr:       Forbidden
descr:       Discretionary Applicant
descr:       Discretionary Name
admin-c:     IH4-IEDR
tech-c:      IH4-IEDR
renewal:     12-April-2107
status:      Active
nserver:     ns0.domainregistry.ie
nserver:     banba.domainregistry.ie
source:      IEDR

person:      IEDR Hostmaster
nic-hdl:     IH4-IEDR
source:      IEDR

I'd applied for the domain on several occasions over the past couple of years in protest against one of the IEDR's naming policies - see my previous posts: Is the Irish Internet Prudish? Irish Adult Content? Hot Sexual Romps on the Irish Internet

5 Comments

James said:

Is there any hope that they might do something about those two squatters who soaked up loads of domains like nike.ie? The reason I ask is because they have a domain that I want...

April 13, 2007 1:20 PM | Reply

michele said:

James

I'm not sure. I've posted on one of my other blogs about some of the WIPO decisions on EUBrowser squats:

http://www.isquattedyour.eu

the problem with EUBrowser being that they exploited the rules :(

Michele

April 13, 2007 1:22 PM | Reply

Robert Synnott said:

Isn't hosting or producing porn illegal here, anyway, though?

April 13, 2007 5:16 PM | Reply

michele said: