[At-Large] Libya terminating unacceptable .ly domains

[Roberto Gaetano]

Sorry to intervene so late, I have been pretty busy lately and this subject,
although interesting, ended on my back burner.
My personal opinion is that we are making things more dramatic than they
are.
I don't see at all a risk for the Internet if some TLDs (cc or g) decide not
to allow certain sites. I believe that the beauty (and strength) of the
internet is not in allowing (or obliging) everybody to do everything, but in
having enough diversity so that there is a space for everybody.
In short, if .ly wants to ban porn sites, this is not a tragedy. Porn sites
have hundreds of other TLDs where they can be hosted. I don't see this any
different from .museum that does not allow registrations from entities that
are not... Museums.
Let me make a parallel with restaurants. Would you argue that all
restaurants have to serve all types of food? Should vegetarian restaurants
be obliged to serve also meat? The problem does not exist the moment in
which we have enough restaurants, with enough diversity, so that every type
of food can be served. And the customers have the choice.
So, I tend to agree with Karl, saying that the issue is to have enough TLDs
to produce enough diversity.
Cheers,
Roberto



> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org 
> [mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf 
> Of Sivasubramanian M
> Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 08:49
> To: At-Large Worldwide
> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Libya terminating unacceptable .ly domains
> 
> John,
> 
> Will Internet be Internet if Muslim countries ban sites with 
> porn content, Hindu countries ban sites that have anything to 
> do with beef or veal, Jewish countries ban sites with 
> pictures of fish without scales and  Christian nations ban 
> sites from every other religion ?
> 
> Starts with domain names, next would be deep packet 
> inspection aided filtering and IP address blocking. Stars 
> with porn, will progress to  idealogical and political 
> content and then the technologies would even be adopted to be 
> tools for 'economic sanctions'.
> 
> The network of networks wouldn't be Internet if it becomes a 
> network of national networks.  ccTLDs, National Internet 
> Exchanges and IDN TLDs are the greatest threats to Internet.
> 
> Sivasubramanian M
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:08 AM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > 
> http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-consider
> > ed-unsafe/
> >
> > Well, honestly, it was pretty stupid to put a sex site on a 
> domain in 
> > a Muslim country.  (Violet Blue is a very elegant high 
> class sex site, 
> > but there's no way it's anything else.)  Their argument 
> that it vb.ly 
> > was only a redirector to the underlying site may have been 
> technically 
> > correct, but it was just silly since it was utterly obvious 
> to anyone 
> > what showed up on your screen if you typed http://vb.ly in 
> the address bar.
> >
> > I also have a short ly domain at http://jl.ly, and it's true, they 
> > appear to have realized that it was not a great idea to 
> sell off the 
> > two letter domains for $75 each, but I haven't seen any 
> evidence that 
> > they're reclaiming two letter sites in general.
> >
> > R's,
> > John
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