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How bizarre that the terms of use for .xyz specifically bans illegal or fraudulent defamation of Justin Bieber and Oprah Winfrey. Presumably this only covers things that were already covered by the law for everyone else, but it is still kind of baffling. I assume the two of them were involved financially with the .xyz TLD?



I think it's reactive, i.e. in response to some prior incident, not implying an ownership stake. Do you really think Justin Bieber is involved financially with the domain name registry business? I doubt it.


I don't see why not, many celebrities/rich people have broad investments, especially in tech.


That does sound more likely.


"I jus' wan' a globally unique identifier to call you by, girl"


Almost certainly in response to affiliate marketers faking their endorsements of products.




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