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“You filthy-minded little pervert” error when registering obscene .to domains

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That was George Tupou V's doing. When he was crown prince of Tonga, he set up the .to registry as a business operation. The original server was in the consulate in San Francisco. When he became king, he had to sell off the business. I knew some of the people involved with ".to", which was the first of the monetized ccTLDs.

So, "The Kingdom of Tonga admonishes you" is not a joke. That message originally came from someone entitled to issue it. Topou V died in 2012.

To save you time, when trying pussy.to:

> You filthy-minded little pervert!

> The Kingdom of Tonga admonishes you. Now go back and think of another name that you wouldn't be embarrassed to say to your mother.

However:

> Congratulations!

> Your name penis.to is available.

vagina.to is available, so it seems that medical/technical/'proper' terms are not blocked, merely slang.

Edit: I love the web page design, unironically. Makes it feel like there's a cgi-bin directory full of Perl scripts in the background.

Interestingly, certain non-medical names for the other organ give:

Error

This word is unacceptable as a domain name.

I recognize this may be a really unpopular opinion but lately I've been feeling like the lack of values and personality in ubiquitous apps like Instagram, Facebook, may be short sighted.

don't get me wrong. i make web software- I get it. just build an interface to the data. but I also think a little personality and good will from these apps could help make the world a better place (Facebook does this in some respects, like celebrating birthdays and friendship anniversaries with fun videos).

that all said... this kind of subjective censorship is totally not what I had in mind... perhaps it's a fine line.

aside (but perhaps more relevant): I'm curious as to who arbitrates this blacklist, and who is responsible for the funny messaging it responds with. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga)

I've heard the "personality" that a lot of major sites use referred to as "the new sincerity," because apparently, somehow, "sincere" meant endlessly chipper and painfully patronizing.

Facebook's "on this day" feature starts its blurb with "We care about you", and that just makes me uncomfortable.

Oh and their memories and friendiversary posts? I hate how easy those videos are for them to make, the entire feature is creepy. Facebook friendiversaries are stupid and should not add anything to anything's life, yet so many of my buds LOOOOOVE to share and celebrate.

It's the same way every farmer cares for their cattle.

Not quite so. Farmers don't have to reassure their cows that they care about them. Plus they do care, even if for completely selfish reasons.

Sure, you have to keep the herd together. Farmers do that other ways, but the outcome is the same. Facebook does care, and for the same selfish reasons: they're an eyeball farmer.

Because a grown cow sells for around $1000.

Whereas you are only worth around $250 or less to Facebook! [1].

[1] Dividing their market capitalization, as an estimate of their discounted future cash flows, by their number of users. A better estimate might be smaller, if their user base is expected to grow or they are expected to make lots of money in some other business

But... I'm not on Facebook!!!

haha. i hear you. i'm kind of more into the idea of Facebook saying something like "caution: seems like you're kind of being a dick!" before you post a comment.

I remember the old days of Flickr. The copywriting on that site was spectacular and full of personality. Slack has some of it, but Slack is not as fun as Flickr was.

yep. and i think that is just a small step.

when you enter some community event (bingo, concerts, golf) the social atmosphere does a good job self regulating. there are expected standards for behavior. the internet is a different beast of course, but i wonder if we still can't do a better job encouraging people do be/do good.

You and I apparently don't attend the same sort of concerts.

The joke is on them. I'm not a little pervert. I'm a huge pervert.

First registry I've seen that lets you do a 100 year registration.

Yeah, that's pretty amazing if it's something they will stick to. Most I've seen is 10 years, which can be a bit short sited for something like a personal blog, an archive or permanent resource of some type.

I doubt I will ever get to write an error message as great as "The Kingdom of Tonga admonishes you."

It's not a fan of scunthorpe.to yet somehow analfisting.to is just fine :-D

For what it's worth, our team - the Domain Research Group - specializes in this kind of weirdness.

Couldn't resist sharing this... (discovered when they decided to add support for Emoji Domains)

Here's our report on unusual characters in the dotcom world: https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/all-the-dotcom-emoji-domai...

I found another error in addition to the pervert error... 'This name contains an offensive substring'.

Apparently that's for moderate level swear words.

Looks to probably just be a banned word list as alternate/phonetic spellings get through their filter. phuck.to, kok.to, etc.

Dang, dori.to is taken.

Dang! burri.to is as well!

Not stilet.to though.

To save everyone else time:

$ grep to$ /usr/share/dict/american-english | column -c 80

Akihito Maputo Shinto ditto palmetto

Alberto Margarito Soto falsetto photo

Ariosto Minamoto Soweto ghetto pimento

Barquisimeto Miskito Squanto graffito pimiento

Benito Modesto Suharto grotto pinto

Bhutto Monsanto Tintoretto gusto pizzicato

Callisto Mutsuhito Tito hereto potato

Canaletto Norberto Tonto hitherto presto

Cato Otto Toronto incognito pronto

Erato Pareto Toto into quarto

Ernesto Plato Tupungato legato staccato

Esperanto Pluto Vito libretto stiletto

Frito Pôrto alto lotto telephoto

Gilberto Quito antipasto magneto thereto

Giotto Rigoberto auto manifesto to

Heriberto Rigoletto bonito memento tomato

Hirohito Risorgimento burrito mosquito unto

Humberto Roberto canto motto veto

Ito Sacramento concerto mulatto vibrato

Kyoto Sarto contralto onto

I'm disappointed by the fact that this error comes with a response code 200. I was expecting either 69 or 666 or something of the kind! If your gonna be wonky, why not go all out? ;)

I believe 406 Not Acceptable would be the proper response.

While typically I would discourage using that response code unless the error is with the Accepts header. I would make an exception in this case

Edit: Whoever downvoted me needs to get a life. I'm playing along with the joke not trying to correct amarant.

Who made you the boss of http codes

Chill dude. I was playing along with the joke. Also, a boss would say "You must use this code!" not politely discourage it... also W3C

> Congratulations!

> rape.to is available!

I guess you're not a pervert if you're willing to engage in acts of violence and ignore consent :/

This is the first meaning of "rape" that I ever learned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed

This is the first meaning of "pussy" that I ever learned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy

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