Reports suggest that Taylor Swift has preemptively bought the domain names TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, to prevent more salacious web users from grabbing them first and doing God-knows-what with them. One of the prices of being the world's most popular music act, we suppose.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit, has continued to turn out new .domain categories, and people such as Swift must have raised an eyebrow when they saw that the obviously mature domains would be entering the web during June. Her team sprang early to snap up potentially offensive and misleading side sites before others could. The Hollywood Reporter suggests that each domain could have cost as much as $2,500.
Swift isn't the only one who's acting proactively to defer disturbing mock-ups. Microsoft acted early to grab Office.porn and Office.adult so that its major software package would lead potential buyers to more interesting fare, according to Ad Week. Admittedly, "Office.porn" is tad more open-ended than "TaylorSwift.porn."
The unfortunate thing to take from this whole trend is that celebrities should be prepared for the worst in a world where the internet allows anyone to say/do just about anything. One has to wonder if buying up domains such as TaylorSwift.porn is even worth it to performers—after all, other obvious domains such as TSwift.porn or TSwift.adult still exist.
Then again, no one has reported on whether a performer such as Swift could bring legal action against a potential, disruptive domain owner. She has certainly made her presence known at Etsy, alerting many retailers that she would sue the sweaters off of them if they didn't remove products based on her name / intellectual property.
No word on whether Swift actually plans on doing anything with the domains she recently bought.
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