Question: Karl Auerbach wrote: I don't care what new TLDs are created - I don't think the character string is any part of ICANN's business... Q: So .drugs, .rapist, .pedo are all ok? Are you saying ICANN should have NO SAY in TLD's?

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Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-09-29 19:17:07 I generally believe that ICANN should ignore the string. But I would never say never. As to .pedophile or .childsex, I think I would object to the issuance of those domains. ICANN should have a way for the public to know which TLDs are proposed and should host a forum for comments from the public at large. But it should be the rare case that ICANN refuses a TLD based solely on its string. Karl Auerbach - posted on 2000-09-24 21:55:56 ICANN should exercise utterly no semantic filtering of TLD names. Otherwise, ICANN becomes a worldwide censor and arbitor of what is acceptable and what is not. And to me, the notion of ICANN as an overlord of Internet content is as ugly a concept as any of the terms you mentioned.