This was a challenge for .uk because its target audience is school children." Gareth Roelofse, the web designer for .uk, noted in 2004: "We found many library Net stations, school networks and Internet cafes block sites with the word 'sex' in the domain name.In the months leading up to January 1996, some web searches for Super Bowl XXX were being filtered, because the Roman numeral for the game and the site (XXX) is also used to identify pornography.Articles covering this stated that it was a common and extremely difficult technical problem for which no robust solution was currently available. Names of those replying included Ben Schmuck (last name is a Yiddish word for "penis" ), and Arun Dikshit (last name is Sanskrit for one who teaches or provides knowledge, containing the substring shit). It was reported that "hundreds" of people replied saying this affected them as well. In August 2018, Natalie Weiner reported on social media that she was unable to create an account for herself on a website, because her last name is also a word used as slang for penis.In a subsequent statement, a Verizon spokeswoman apologized for not approving his desired e-mail address. Libshitz could not register an e-mail address containing his name with Verizon because his surname contained the substring shit, and Verizon initially rejected his request for an exception.
In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah.In 2010, he had a similar problem registering on the BBC website, where again the first four characters of his surname caused a problem for the content filter. Hotmail initially told him to spell his name C0ckburn (with a zero instead of the letter "o") but later reversed the ban.
Separately he had problems with his workplace email because his job title, software specialist, contained the substring Cialis, an erectile dysfunction medication commonly mentioned in spam e-mails.
Mistaken decisions by obscenity filters include: In the early 2000s, Google's opt-in SafeSearch filters made the same error, preventing people from searching for local businesses or URLs that included Scunthorpe in their names. The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring " cunt".
2.4 Blocked for words with multiple meanings.2.1 Refused web domain names and account registrations.