Taylor Swift Bought Up All Your [Dot] Porn URLs
A new aspect of online reputation management.
Oh wait that’s ICANN.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 23, 2015
Yes it is…and yes you can.
Haters gonna hate, but Taylor Swift would prefer they not create unflattering web addresses for the sites they use to do it.
Like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Swift (and her media team) recently bought a whole bunch of URLs that probably wouldn’t be used for anything good…URLs like:
- taylorswift.porn
- taylorswift.adult
- taylorswift.sucks
As we noted on Friday, the web hosting company responsible for that last domain has begun saving URLs with big brands in front of the [dot] sucks in the interest of selling them for as much as $2500 a pop.
But Swift was among a “select group of people and companies” who got “first dibs” on the problematic suffixes.
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