Taylor Swift Buys Domain Name TaylorSwift.porn
(Hollywood Reporter):
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/taylor-swift-buys-domain-name-783539
"Taylor Swift knew these domain names were trouble when they walked in.
The singer's team has purchased the web addresses TaylorSwift.porn and
TaylorSwift.adult, prior to them becoming available to the public on
June 1, according to CNN. It is unclear what she plans to do with
them, if anything. The move was prompted by nonprofit group Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers continuing to expand the
number of generic top-level domains, beyond such popular ones as .com
and .net. A number of controversial domain names will be available in
June, but public figures and companies are currently being given a
window of time in which to register them before anyone else can. This
means that, in addition to Swift preemptively snatching up the
sexy-sounding addresses, Microsoft Office has also registered
Office.porn and Office.adult. The domains cost up to $2,500 to
register, Ad Week reports. By the way, another web suffix becoming
available is .sucks, in case you were recently thinking to yourself
that you just wish the Internet offered a little more negativity."
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Explain to me again how the gTLD expansion hasn't turned into
simple extortion for the benefit of domainers and the rest of
the domain-industrial complex.
--Lauren--
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