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redonihunter25 days ago

It's about domain names. Literally. Not about the purpose of the websites hosted on that domain. If it were about the website, it would be rather impractical to adhere to every nation's laws. Itch is illegal in Russia for it's lgbt-friendlyness alone.

You can have names that are offensive, sexual in nature or even illegal in some countries. Try insulting persons with a phrase and register that as a domain name. That sort of thing.

Though I have trouble of the concept of a porno-graphic name. Does this mean certain emojis or what ;-)

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Eldwood25 days ago(+1)

Well, if you’re going for the stupidly literal interpretation, then it doesn’t say that the domain name may not be sexual or pornographic. It says that the domain name may not be used for a sexual or pornographic purpose. So that means what, exactly? Tattooing the domain name on your private parts? Screaming the domain name during sex? Styling the domain name using pornographic characters?

Or maybe it just means hosting a pornographic website under the domain name, since that’s the major use of domain names that requires actually owning it.

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redonihunter25 days ago

It literally talked about the domain names. Interestingly the quote is outdated. They changed that section since it was quoted on the wiki. When I try to look up definitions, domain seems to be the synonym of domain name. If I were to refer to the services provided under a domain, I would not use the term domain. We refer to Itch.io as a site and not as a domain. A domain is the adress of a house and not the house itself.

Prohibiting names would make a lot of sense and restrictions about naming are useful. There are defamatory sites that have the defamation in their domain name. And insulting polititicans is illegal in many countries.

What they actually mean is unknown to me. Because they obviously do not make use of that policy in the sense of that vague catch it all phrasing. "statutory laws of any Nation" includes countrys like Russia and China. Itch is banned in those countries. And outright illegal in Russia because of lgbt laws. So it is either: they ignore that rule or it does not apply.

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A Fals Fiction25 days ago

It’s about domain names. Literally.

That’s an unusual interpretation….

Maybe it would help to read the rules from the source.

https://www.nic.io/rules.htm

For comparison, there’s the mail policy.

In the event that any .IO domain is used either directly or indirectly for the purpose of directing unsolicited electronic mail{…}

The meaning of “used, directly or indirectly” is not about what letters are in the domain name.

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