Using a potentially pornographic word

In a non-pornographic domain

[eggy ricardo]

Hiya guys.

Please bear with me as this is a little difficult to explain (and mods please excuse the use of one specific word as its essential to the explanation).

I am looking to register the domain nakedwidgets.com where widgets is a non sexual object, using the word naked to mean exposed rather than wearing no clothes.

I am wondering if SEs or anything else that matter may end up falsly detecting this as pornographic and block me or whatever. Also, if anyone has any tips on using potentially dodgy words.

Cheers
Richard

[outrun]

I would be more worried about the branding then worrying about search engines, if naked widgets has nothing to do with pornography and people won't misinterprate it, then it should be fine.

regards,
Mark

[mincklerstraat]

'Naked' is used commonly enough in non-sleazy contexts. As long as your widget name is adequately devoid of sleaze, and the title sounds nice, my guess is the only thing you'd have to worry about is people using sleaze-block filters - and probably most sleaze-block filters would let this through as well, I'd guess.

I tend to prefer naked widgets to clothed ones myself.

[robho]

You might find it more likely to be used as a fake return address on spam, and you may get more (if that's possible) porn spam sent to the domain.

I had a domain (now sold) which was a perfectly innocent word (in fact a surname) where the first few letters of it were a body part (in US English). You could tell from the cc's on the spam it got that it got onto many porn-webmaster lists from somebody just looking for all domains with that word anywhere...

[Vegas21]

I don't think you'd run into any problems from a SE ranking standpoint. The popular juice in the US, Naked Juice, ranks in the top 10 in Google for the keyword "juice" so I think you are fine.

[Matt Probert]

ROTFL!

I can't help but think of the poor S#*$!horpe city web site which is blocked by "parental control" software because it is supposedly obscene....

I'd use the word "naked" and not worry about it. But be aware some software will block the site.

Matt

[eggy ricardo]

Hiya,

Thanks for the input guys, it's appreciated. I think that seen as the site would be a promo for some 'written material' with the same name then I should be ok as words like naked are used expressively in creativity quite often.

Cheers
Richard

[cornwall]

Depends on who you are selling to

Adult filters tend to bar many sites these days. There was a tale in the press this week of schools in UK not being able to get information on the story of Dick Whittington ;)

Your site would get barred by anyone using such filters