Swift Secures Her Domains
Taylor Swift got in a preemptive strike against Internet squatters by buying up .porn and .adult website suffixes before the domain names could become available this summer.
Photo: Joel Ryan / Invision / AP
BRIT Awards, The O2, London, UK
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is expanding the available suffixes – such as .com, .gov and .org – for businesses and people to use.
Swift joined household names such Microsoft and Harvard University in taking control of the domains before they could be exploited.
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