Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains

Karate Sid writes “An Irish adult website has blogged about the Irish domain registry banning adult domain names, including porn.ie and pornography.ie. The IEDR’s reasoning is that the words ‘porn’ and ‘pornography’ are offensive and immoral. Of interest is how Sex.ie took legal action against the IEDR — and proved that neither word is offensive — yet still lost the case, as the IEDR are the highest authority in Ireland when it comes to deciding what is and isn’t an offensive domain.”

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