I was configuring some Windows Azure sites today. When prompted for a globally unique public name for an account, I started playing with the Check Availability button.
Not surprisingly, there’s a filter that bans the use of the common English-language curse words - plus many words that might offend sensibilities in Anglophone cultures. For example, you can’t use the URL:
http://sex.cloudapp.net/
Porn, slut, and wanker are banned words as well.
However, lesser naughty words like horny, fart, crap, and puke are allowed.
Since Canada has two official languages, I wondered whether they filtered for common French-Canadian curse words. Well, the list is quite inconsistent. For example, crisse and ostie are banned at Azure but I was able to register the highly naughty:
http://tabarnak.cloudapp.net/
Of course there are other ways to offend using allowed words. I created the following public storage account URL:
">http://fat.blob.core.windows.net/ <grin>