To prevent misuse of her name and image, Taylor Swift’s publicity team reportedly bought TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult before the domain names becomes available to the public on June 1. Also, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University were listed among corporations buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer, according to NBC News.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is making more Internet address suffixes beyond the usual .com or .org available for people and businesses to use, including those in Chinese or other languages besides English, and others like .music, .app or, and of course, .porn.