Taylor Swift has bought her own .porn address, and she isn't alone

Taylor Swift doesn&#039;t want anyone else to own TaylorSwift.porn

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published 24 March 2015

This summer, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is rolling out a host of new internet suffixes, including .music, .app, and .porn. Not everyone wants their own dot-porn address, of course, but some people would rather have one than let somebody else register the domain. And that, says The Associated Press, is how we ended up with TaylorSwift.porn, Microsoft.porn, Office.porn, and Harvard.porn, purchased by Swift, Microsoft, and Harvard University, respectively. You can check out what addresses are still available at ICM Registry.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.