Washington: Kim Kardashian’s sex tape she made with her ex-boyfriend may time and again come back to haunt her, but she won’t be seeing her name appear on the new .XXX website domain names.
Kardashian has joined over 4,000 other celebrities, politicians and newsmakers in having their names permanently blocked from the new .XXX pornography Internet domain that started taking orders Wednesday.
ICM Registry has reserved 15,000 potentially offensive .XXX domains, including international city names, various dignitaries, heads of state and common terms for child pornography.
Stuart Lawley, the chief executive of ICM Registry, said that his company would have a laser-like focus on taking down any .XXX cybersquatters who are hoping to cash in on the traffic a site like MeganFox.xxx would bring in.
“There’s a prohibition on anyone registering a first or last name that doesn’t belong to them,” Fox News quoted him as telling the Guardian newspaper.
“The reason we banned the celebrities’ names was because it’s very difficult for them to trademark their names. We didn’t want to have the embarrassment of AngelinaJolie.xxx coming up at the launch of the new domain.”
Some of the celebrity domains that ICM Registry have “reserved” include:
LindsayLohan.XXX
VanillaIce.XXX
Madonna.XXX
BettyWhite.XXX
MileyCyrus.XXX
OlsenTwins.XXX
JustinBieber.XXX
LadyGaga.XXX
SarahPalin.XXX
MarilynMonroe.XXX
Oprah.XXX
MollyRingwald.XXX
LyndaCarter.XXX
SuzanneSomers.XXX
HeatherLocklear.XXX
ANI
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