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KOB-TV.com - It is not your everyday purchase if you are in the marketing department at The University of New Mexico. Three weeks ago the marketing heads purchased two porn website domain names at $200 a pop. You have likely heard of .com’s and .net’s. But have you heard of .xxx? The new extensions are sold for the adult industry. The university purchased www.unm.xxx and www.lobos.xxx to make sure no one uses them inappropriately in the future to link the university to porn. “The use of the domain names is something that concerns us and that's why we purchased them and put them aside," said Dr. Gilbert Gonzales, UNM’s public information officer. Each of the triple x domain names cost UNM $200. “It’s a very good idea, you have to protect the name of the school,” said Patrick Lopez, an electrical engineer major at UNM. In September, Icann, the group that overseas domain name registration started selling .xxx domain names to porn sites. The University of New Mexico took a proactive approach because they were worried the domain names would fall into the wrong hands. There’s not just students, there's people in the community that will use the university affiliation with young people in inappropriate ways. We wanted to limit or restrict it," Gonzales said. When you go to the .xxx UNM websites, a message reads, “This domain has been reserved from registration.” The university said it will keep it that way forever. Using money out of the general fund, UNM plans to buy about a half dozen more UNM related triple x domain names in the next month and a half.
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UNM buys porn website domain names
From KOB-TV.com - It is not your everyday purchase if you are in the marketing department at The University of New Mexico. Three weeks ago the marketing heads purchased two porn website domain names at $200 a pop. You have likely heard of .com’s and .net’s. But have you heard of .xxx? The new extensions are sold for the adult industry. The university purchased www.unm.xxx and www.lobos.xxx to make sure no one uses them inappropriately in the future to link the university to porn. “The use of the domain names is something that concerns us and that's why we purchased them and put them aside," said Dr. Gilbert Gonzales, UNM’s public information officer. Each of the triple x domain names cost UNM $200. “It’s a very good idea, you have to protect the name of the school,” said Patrick Lopez, an electrical engineer major at UNM. In September, Icann, the group that overseas domain name registration started selling .xxx domain names to porn sites. The University of New Mexico took a proactive approach because they were worried the domain names would fall into the wrong hands. There’s not just students, there's people in the community that will use the university affiliation with young people in inappropriate ways. We wanted to limit or restrict it," Gonzales said. When you go to the .xxx UNM websites, a message reads, “This domain has been reserved from registration.” The university said it will keep it that way forever. Using money out of the general fund, UNM plans to buy about a half dozen more UNM related triple x domain names in the next month and a half. Read more
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