Tibet In A Hotmail Address (i.e. MS lies again?)

Here's a snippet of an article I just read in The New York Times:

Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put ‘Tibet’ in My Hotmail Address
August 7, 2008, 8:04 pm

By David F. Gallagher

A reader wrote in to say he had heard that Microsoft was not letting people choose usernames with the word “Tibet” in them when signing up for its online services. This turns out to be true, technically speaking. If you try to select such a name you get an error message:



[Unlikely reason explained at the link...]

source: nytimes.com

A local ban is:

Los Alamos National Bank
http://lanb.com/

And lookie here: