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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