Yes, universities are snapping up .XXX Domains left and right. But no, they’re not aspiring to be future AVN award winners. Instead, schools like Missouri and Washington University are buying up domains like missouri.xxx and washu.xxx to protect their names.
Because there are no trademark or copyright protections for domain names, anyone who beats a brand or institution to a domain name has full control over it. Obviously, higher institutions of learning don’t want to be affiliated by mistake with certain sub-cultures in the non-academic sense.
Each domain costs about $US200, and both of the aforementioned schools are buying multiple domains that they think could be associated with them. Sorry to dash whatever dreams of a harvard.xxx site you may or may not have. [CBS]
Shaun
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 8:20 PMWhat’s the pic from please.
Daniel
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:48 PMI was going to like this, but realised it’s not facebook.
I spent a bit too much time on that picture, probably more than i should’ve.
InformedGamer
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:24 PMJack’s Teen America: Mission 15
In this movie she goes by “Bree”, in other movies she is “Juliana Kincaid”.
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