{"id":1054,"date":"2015-03-24T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2015-03-24T02:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:18:34","slug":"taylor-swift-microsoft-buy-porn-and-adult-domain-names-to-protect-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1054\/taylor-swift-microsoft-buy-porn-and-adult-domain-names-to-protect-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift, Microsoft buy .porn and .adult domain names to protect brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know about .com, .org, and .net domain names. \u00a0But did you know that there are now over 547 new gTLDs, or generic\u00a0top-level domains, on the Web, with new suffixes released every month? \u00a0And starting from June 1, new descriptive domain name extensions will be released in the x-rated adult section, including .porn, .adult, and .sucks.<\/p>\n<p>To protect their brand, a\u00a0select group of people and companies, including trademarked brands, can take advantage of ICANN&#8217;s (<span style=\"color: #000000;\">nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) mandated\u00a0&#8220;Sunrise Period&#8221; &#8211; they get first dibs on the controversial domain names. \u00a0Microsoft has already bought Office.porn and Office.adult. \u00a0Similarly Taylor Swift has bought TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult &#8230;so the haters can&#8217;t hate hate hate &#8230;at least not on those domain names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <picture>\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shakeitoff.gif\"\n                          sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\n             width=\"400\"\n             height=\"248\"\n             alt=\"Shake It Off\"\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\n             class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1055\" >\n    <\/picture>\n    <\/p>\n<p>You can get a list of new gTLDs released on the ICANN page <a title=\"ICANN, new gTLDs\" href=\"http:\/\/newgtlds.icann.org\/en\/program-status\/delegated-strings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And a list of new gTLDS being applied for\u00a0<a title=\"applications for new gTLDs\" href=\"https:\/\/gtldresult.icann.org\/application-result\/applicationstatus\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <em>CNN Money<\/em>, &#8220;<a title=\"Brands swoop in to buy .porn and .sucks before the trolls do\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/03\/19\/technology\/social\/porn-sucks-domains\/index.html?sr=twmoney031915pornsucks1130story\" target=\"_blank\">Brands swoop in to buy .porn and .sucks before the trolls do<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>Catchy song by Taylor Swift (in case you didn&#8217;t get the &#8220;hate hate hate&#8221; reference, or just want to enjoy):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Should you get .com, .org, and .net domain names \u2013 all the tld\u2019s?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/474\/should-you-get-com-org-and-net-domain-names-all-the-tlds\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Should you get .com, .org, and .net domain names \u2013 all the tld\u2019s?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know about .com, .org, and .net domain names. \u00a0But did you know that there are now over 547 new gTLDs, or generic\u00a0top-level domains, on the Web, with new suffixes released every month? 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