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Porn.ie and Pornography.ie Banned in Ireland

March 31, 2009 by Michael Berkens

According to a blog post om sex.ie, the registry for .ie (ireland) country code, refuses to allow the registration of the domains porn.ie or pornography.ie on the basis of morality.

The author of the post claims he has been trying to register the domains for about four years. but each time the registry for the .ie extension, the Irish Domain Registry (IEDR) refuses his application because “the proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality.”

The author went as far as to bring legal action against the registry to force them to register the domains, however, the court ruled against the author.

The Author appealed.

The appeals court agreed the IEDR was wrong in stating the words porn and pornography are offensive however, the appeals court let stand the registries decision not to issue the domains saying:

“””The Respondent is a body carrying out functions of a public nature, and is the only body that administers the public resource that is the .ie Internet domain. It would appear therefore that there is no other candidate for the role of arbiter of public policy in respect of the .ie domain space except the Respondent itself.

“””In the absence of any other source of public policy and while the logic may appear cyclical, the public policy that this tribunal must apply is the policy of the Respondent. It would not be appropriate for this Appeal tribunal to take upon itself the role of arbiter of public policy.  It follows that this tribunal must also conclude that the registration of either or would be contrary to the public policy governing the .ie domain space as found in the Respondent’s policies.”””

It wasn’t that long ago that the sole registry of .com domains was Network Solutions and they refused to register any domain which contained one of the “7 dirty words” made famous by George Carlin.

Bottom line, as we have discussed before when you register, or attempt to register a ccTLD, you are subject to the laws, rules and regulations of that country which could be drastically different than the US, for better or worse.

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. belshass says

    April 1, 2009 at 6:36 am

    “The Respondent is a body carrying out functions of a public nature, and is the only body that administers the public resource that is the .ie Internet domain. It would appear therefore that there is no other candidate for the role of arbiter of public policy in respect of the .ie domain space except the Respondent itself.”

    that’s kind of dangerous if they are the only arbiter!
    and all investors in the .ie have to abide by their decision..

    I wonder if they approach the IEDR from another angle ,saying that they’ll build a informative website against pornography/ child pornography. would IEDR still find it immoral to register the domain??

    best,
    Ritz

  2. BullS-websites says

    April 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    No more Irish beer for me anymore but will still watch the Celtics women doing the hula dance.

  3. Bourdeau says

    January 11, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Google helped me find your site. Thanks for posting I will be back 🙂

  4. Leeds Escorts says

    February 1, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    did anyone see the banners about this.

  5. K Whelan says

    April 19, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Hi. This is no longer the case as I have recently registered pornography.ie with the permission of the IEDR. Times have changed!


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