[M] the .porn TLD: can we just call it a moneygrab?

[RS Wood]

From the «more money more money more money» department:
Title: Taylor Swift Bought TaylorSwift.Porn Before Someone Else Got There First
Author: Sabrina Toppa
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:31:00 -0400
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/timeblogs/nerd_world/~3/5ariMiFxkjM/
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To prevent misuse of her name and image by opportunistic purveyors of adult
content, Taylor Swift’s publicity team reportedly bought[1] TaylorSwift.porn
and TaylorSwift.adult before they became available to the public on June 1.

From that date, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
will release new top-level domain names to the public, ranging from the
innocuous .coffee or .report, to more colorful suffixes like .adult or .sucks.
The move is part of a plan, announced in 2011, to make domains more helpful and
descriptive, and to make filtering easier.

There are now some 1,300 new domains[2] in the works, forming an alternative to
the standard .com, .net or .org. Many are in Arabic, Russian, Mandarin and
other languages besides English.

Celebrities like Swift and big brands have been racing to snap up domains in
advance of the June 1 release, with Microsoft, for instance, acquiring
Office.porn and Office.adult.

[CNN][1]

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Links:
[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/19/technology/social/porn-sucks-domains/index.html?sr=twmoney031915pornsucks1130story (link)
[2]: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings (link)
[3]: http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=time.com&blog=1359921&post=3753687&subd=timedotcom&ref=&feed=1 (image)
[4]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/timeblogs/nerd_world/~4/5ariMiFxkjM (image)


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