Taylor Swift, Harvard And Microsoft Buy .Porn Domains
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The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those who are buying domains with suffixes and .adult .porn, as a preventive measure before they are available in a few months.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, for its acronym in English) is offering internet addresses with suffixes that go beyond the usual .com and .org, for use by individuals and businesses. While some are in Chinese and other languages besides English, could be included .music, .app or, of course, .porn.
To check which brands, groups and celebrities have purchased the domain names can visit http://icmregistry.com/domaincheck. According to the Web site, Microsoft has bought not only Microsoft.porn but Office.porn and Office.adult.
Representatives of Taylor Swift, Microsoft and Harvard could not be located for the time to comment.