People, Places, Businesses Prepare for Dot Porn Websites

What do Taylor Swift, Harvard University (pictured) and Microsoft have in common, besides lots of money? They are among those who are buying "dot porn" and "dot adult" web suffixes in anticipation of their domain names becoming available---and vulnerable---this summer. That's when "ICANN," the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (yes, there really is such a thing) will make available internet address suffixes beyond "dot com" and "dot org." So you will see more "dot music," "dot app," etc. Along with "dot porn" and "dot adult." Celebrities, schools, corporations and others have been buying the new suffixes as a preemptive strike. You can check updates at icmregistry.com/domaincheck.

Hopefully we won't be seeing gogriz.porn anytime soon.