Low success for the domain names "sensitive"

More than 6000 requests from individuals or legal entities have been filed in one month to acquire Internet domain names so far banned as "internet.fr" but also "islam.fr", while the decree governing the new law was published Wednesday, August 3. A relatively low figure given the number of domain names put on the market (30 000).

In October, the Constitutional Council censored the 2004 law governing the allocation of Internet domain names and set the July 1 deadline to review the legislation. The decree detailing the changes was published Wednesday in the Official Journal.

Some 30 000 new words so far have been banned on the market: there are indiscriminately "camp de concentration", "Hitler," "xenophobia," "Nazism", "Koran", "Mosque" "union", "satan", "church", "slave" or "home-close". Since July 1, "more than 6100 applications were filed," said Mathieu Weill, executive director of the French Association for Internet Naming in cooperation (AFNIC), the Office of the official registration. Fr.

"VOLEUR.FR", "INTERNET.FR" OR "CANNABIS.FR" now allowed

Any person "demonstrate a legitimate interest" in the terms of the decree - and having been the first to file his case - may be a buyer of these new names to develop a web site or linked addresses.

"The names of the most popular by far are terms like 'internet.fr', 'url.fr', 'entreprise.fr' or 'pme.fr'. There are also some applications, largely minority, for 'musulman.fr ',' chretien.fr ',' juif.fr ',' voleur.fr ',' cannabis.fr 'or' piratage.fr ", summarized Mathieu Weill. For example, can ask "legitimate" name "internet.fr" "someone with a business in the Internet industry, a person wanting to write a history of the Internet, or a person 's Internet calling ", he said.

For the names more "sensitive" for example relating to religion, "we must also justify a legitimate interest and act in good faith, but there is an additional reserve which says that a domain name may be refused if it can be breach public order ", said Mr. Weill. The decree stipulates that each office and registration should "report immediately" to the government "domain names registered or sought with an obviously unlawful or contrary to public order."