[nickpsecurity]

There's a whole chunk of black comedy and hip hop that didn't get that memo. Seems to me like it's one of those things where it's funny or not depending on the audience's personal beliefs. Along with speakers skin color. Which means there's probably nothing concrete to your statement past normal biases and judgments of human groups.

[Bud]

Nope. Hip hop is not relevant here. You are not paying attention to the context. I actually have no problem with rappers and hip hip artists using the word in question.

I was making a statement of fact, which is valid no matter how many downvotes I get: this guy just named a domain "nigg.er". That's not a "joke". It doesn't meet any definition of what a joke is. It's using a word to be gratuitously offensive. It doesn't matter what his motivation was; it doesn't rise to the level of a joke. I'm not saying that because I find the word offensive, I'm saying it because simply naming something "nigger" is factually not a joke. I'm not sure what you call it, but I am sure that you don't call it a joke. :)

[nickpsecurity]

Glad you clarified your position. So, it boils down to the use of the domain in isolation. There's a type of humor that covers that depending on his intent (& only with that intent). I can't recall the name but it's contrarian, controversial, and a bit trollish. The idea is you pick a taboo word or activity to use in a way that causes no harm. Then, people rally against you over it. Then you laugh at them for their wasting time on it.

Alternatively, a form of this draws attention to how much true evil society tolerates under banner of "acceptable behavior" while they put energy into calling out harmless domain names that should get an eye roll at someone's stupidity at worst. These domain names probably received far more hate from certain people than any carcinogen-filled product or even laws that re-enforce things that hold blacks back. Some get virtually no complaints but taboos almost always do. Ya think? ;)

Note: I don't like the domain name(s) for the record. However, I think it can be a joke or a tool of activism in certain situations. I don't know if contrarian, taboo-oriented humor or calling out people's BS was the goal here.

Note 2: I forgot to add I'm big on the second paragraph's version of this kind of humor. I call out self-righteous pricks all the time with it. Includes use of "the N word" in the positive ways blacks use it. It's just too effective at finding most judgmental & often (not always) hypocritical folks. :)