I work at GoDaddy, though not in the domains group. I heard this story from a co-worker that does work directly on domains and was involved in the the deployme

I work at GoDaddy, though not in the domains group. I heard this story from a co-worker that does work directly on domains and was involved in the the deployment. Within the last week, a UK news agency published a report that it was was possible to buy the domain name 'rapeher.co.uk'. I don't know the exact article but I believe it was this one [1] The rumor is that someone from the Prime Minister's office called the GoDaddy CEO to express the PM's displeasure with the idea that you could buy that domain name. An emergency deployment was made to blacklist that one domain name. No additional filtering was added. As GoDaddy states in the article, "We are withdrawing the name while we carry out a review. We have not done this before." The discussion with my co-worker was clear that it would be impossible to add in a word filter without having a large number of false positives given that domains don't have spaces and it would be hard to know if a blocked term was a word or part of another word. So, yes, GoDaddy did block a domain, but it's not as nefarious as some people are making it out to be. (Ironically, that article about getting rid of porn has a full column of ads on the right side filled with half-naked women) [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384629/Britain-home-half-million-porn-websites-UK-hosts-biggest-volume-adult-content.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384629/Britain-home...