And assuming all your consumers are not sloppy is impractical.
We sanitise input all the time. This is not particularly unique. There isn't a great loss in this restriction of company names.
We sanitise input all the time. This is not particularly unique. There isn't a great loss in this restriction of company names.
No we don't.
Companies like the aforementioned were made illegal because nobody sanitizes input.
SQL query injection and other forms of malformed data entry is still one of the most common attack vectors in the year 2024.
If everybody sanitizes their inputs (in undefined ways) then companies like the one mentioned would be randomly blocked from administrative processes.
This is not what we (as a society) want.
If Bobby Tables isn't a valid name the legislation should make it invalid, instead of rubber stamping it at the government registry and let poor Bobby get random errors when making requests to various public bodies. ("Sorry, our school does not admit persons with semicolons in their names.")