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Taylor Swift, Microsoft Preemptively Buy Up Porn Site Domain Names

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Singer and New York City Global Welcome Ambassador Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has begun 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.

Over the weekend, Swift preemptively bought up TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult before they go public on June 1, according to CNN. They reportedly cost her $2,500 each.

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.

Representatives for Swift, Microsoft and Harvard could not immediately be reached for comment.

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