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No Justin Bieber bashing in fresh .xyz domain name

No Justin Bieber bashing in fresh .xyz domain name

Be careful what content you post at JustBieberDruggie.xyz.

.xyzThe .XYZ top level domain name has published its launch policies, and it includes perhaps the most off-the-wall restriction of any fresh TLD to date:

No Bieber-bashing.

Oprah, too.

Page 22 of the policy states that abusive and forbidden uses of .xyz names include:

“illegal malicious and fraudulent defamation of Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Negari, or Justin Bieber”

Depending on how you look at generational dates, that’s one person for the x, y and z generations, respectively.

Negari is the founder of the .xyz domain name.

.xyz is right now in sunrise with a landrush period beginning May 20.

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