Series of educational institutions in the United States buy domains associated with the extension xxx, porn industry defense
Future site inspired by the University of Kansas?
Series of recent buyers academic institutions with extension XXX addresses. No, they do not intend to open pornographic sites using the new extension, which is supposed to, apply to the market by the end of the year, but mainly to protect themselves. University of Kansas, for example, bought the rest of the domains KUgirls.xxx and KUnurses.xxx to prevent abuse by dealers on behalf porn hurry to register the domain and make them available sites sex with student orientation ("hot students of Kansas," etc.). "We can not predict what unscrupulous entrepreneurs can do," said Paul Vander - Teague, contact the University's trademarks, already spent 3,000 dollars on such preventive measures. Indiana University spokesman Mark Land said that the institution took about $ 2,200 on the 11 domains, and that this is a modest cost of the doing business in the world we live ". University of Michigan has purchased 21 addresses XXX "to protect our image."
Estimates for the last two months, since the opening of registration for domains XXX, registered tens of thousands of those (at the price of one hundred dollars a year), and some of which can be abused to harm the well-known brands that rushed to reserve the name the new address. Already known that the purchased domains nike.xxx and pepsi.xxx, for example.
Web addresses XXX extension was approved in March, after years of struggle on the right to exist. Porn sites can now distinguish themselves with a unique - something that no filtering software will easily remove them from the list of permissions. The new extension opponents are found in several well-known porn studios, who feared that uses you put them in a kind of ghetto, was not going on and would raise costs.