Editing Domain name registry (section)

=== Allocation policies ===
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Historically, domain name registries operated on a [[first-come-first-served]] system of allocation but may reject the allocation of specific domains on the basis of political, religious, historical, legal or cultural reasons. For example, in the [[United States]], between 1996 and 1998, [[InterNIC]] automatically rejected domain name applications based on a list of perceived obscenities<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=NSI lets a bad word slip |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nsi-lets-a-bad-word-slip/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref> and sanctioned hate-based domains.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=InterNIC sanctions hate-based domain names from J H K on 1997-02-25 (www-talk@w3.org from January to February 1997) |url=https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1997JanFeb/0127.html |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=lists.w3.org}}</ref> However, enforcement was not always consistent.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 2017, a request to register the domain fucknazis.com was first granted and then denied.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Cyberlaw Clinic Helps Eliminate “Seven Words” Policy for Registration of .US Domain Names |url=https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2018/09/12/cyberlaw-clinic-helps-eliminate-seven-words-policy-for-registration-of-us-domain-names/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=clinic.cyber.harvard.edu}}</ref> A challenge to this ruling resulted in elimination of the  “[[seven dirty words]]” policy for registration of US Domain Names based on [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|first amendment]] grounds.<ref name=":2" />  

Registries may also control matters of interest to their local communities; for example, the German, Japanese and Polish registries have introduced internationalized domain names to allow use of local non-[[ASCII]] characters.