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Taylor Swift, Microsoft among those buying

Microsoft has bought not only the Microsoft.porn web address but also Office.porn and Office.adult as well.

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Taylor Swift, Microsoft and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this year.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is making internet address suffixes beyond the usual .com or .org available for people and businesses to use.

While some are in Chinese or other languages besides English, others could include the likes of .music, .app or, of course, .porn.

To check what brands, groups and celebrities have bought their domain names, visit http://icmregistry.com/domaincheck.

According to the site, Microsoft has bought not only Microsoft.porn but Office.porn and Office.adult as well.


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