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

https://www.tonic.to/

by runnr_az • 9 years ago

28 37 9 years ago

TkTech• 9 years ago

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

bArray• 9 years ago

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.

thinkfurther• 9 years ago

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.

jff• 9 years ago

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.

qb45• 9 years ago

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

Error

This word is unacceptable as a domain name.

catshirt3• 9 years ago

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)

tomc19852• 9 years ago

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.

kevinmgranger• 9 years ago

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

catshirt3• 9 years ago

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.

armandososa• 9 years ago

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.

catshirt3• 9 years ago

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.

SystemOut• 9 years ago

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

ballenf• 9 years ago

Dang, dori.to is taken.

gregjw• 9 years ago

Dang! burri.to is as well!

worldsayshi• 9 years ago

Not stilet.to though.

petercooper• 9 years ago

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

code_duck• 9 years ago

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

Apparently that's for moderate level swear words.

runnr_az• 9 years ago

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...

knicholes• 9 years ago

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

OzzyB2• 9 years ago

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 :/

goodcanadian• 9 years ago

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

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

OzzyB2• 9 years ago

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

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

amarant• 9 years ago

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? ;)

throwaway2016a2• 9 years ago

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.

supercoder• 9 years ago

Who made you the boss of http codes

Animats• 9 years ago

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.

ksenzee• 9 years ago

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

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

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