well, yuck
You'll NEVER guess who has bought I Taught Taylor Swift How To Give Head dot-com
In one of the most unlikely but intriguing domain registrations in recent years, pop star Taylor Swift has, it appears, registered ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com. No, really. The registration was sparked by Swift's lawyers threatening the owner of ITaughtTaylorSwift.com, run by, um, the man who taught Taylor Swift how to …
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Wednesday 11th February 2015 22:03 GMT the spectacularly refined chap
Asking for trouble...
...given that there is a virtually infinite list of provocative domain names, many on very similar themes and this will appeal to those who like to stir things up. So, ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com is taken. Did they think of e.g. ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToSuppressTheGagReflex.com?
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Wednesday 11th February 2015 22:09 GMT The_Idiot
So for those who enjoy irony...
... including dwarves :-) - from what song, by what singer, does the following line come?
"But when you think: Tim McGraw..."
Not, you understand, that I would suggest anyone might have 'infringing the "(insert famous name here)" trademark, or that in fact Mr McGraw has in fact Trademarked his name (er - even if he did, first in April 1999), or that the use was not one for which permission had been granted. But it may have some small bearing on the fame of the name mentioned in the article above...
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Wednesday 11th February 2015 23:21 GMT stonedcom
WATCH TAYLOR SWIFT LIE!!!
In this video Taylor Swift HERSELF says (at around 8:00) ..."...this magical twist of fate...the guy who my parents had hired to come fix my computer...he looks over and sees the guitar in the corner..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOeieM1cVY#t=458
...and in this video she HERSELF says ..."...this guy came to fix my computer...and I saw that he had brought a guitar with him...and so I looked down at the guitar and I was like..."
(around 1:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8dxBePDKK8#t=72
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Thursday 12th February 2015 00:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
MmeGuillotineTaughtMeToGiveHead
Fair play to MarkMonitor. They charge to register a bunch of defensive registrations and invoice MsSwift, whoever she may be. Next up, buy all relevant adwords to point to swifttat.com and wait for the money to pour in. Sadly it seems I am not MsSwift's target audience.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 00:37 GMT skeptical i
Daaaaaammmn.
MarkMonitor has the best job ever: grab some beer, get your buddies around a table, put today's "name that needs protection" on the whiteboard, open said beers, and watch the number of potential "harmful" domain names grow. Multiply by latest number of dot-whatever TLDs. Register the fruit of this brainstorm. Invoice client, while also submitting regretful news that, alas, InsertNameHereLikesItLargeWithVatsOfButterAndOrangeGlitter.com has already been taken, should we summon the lawyers? I am SOOOOO jealous.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 00:51 GMT Eddy Ito
Best pic of Taylor Swift evah!
I gotta say that's simply awesome and catches just the right amount of crazy. Just one thing I want to know, was it a bloody machete or meat cleaver in her hand that was photoshopped out? I assume the song was a catchy jingle like "if I can't have you, nobody will".
The icon because that pic is the kind of thing that could give a kid nightmares.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 08:08 GMT psyvenrix
why not register togivehead.com/net/org/watever and use wildcard CNAMEs to tack on the itaught$CELEBTRITY part and go nuts from there?
the registration would not have any copyrighted name/identity present and you can argue to some limited extent that a wildcard CNAME isnt a permanent record as such.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 22:47 GMT asdf
Re: Bah!
>I don't know who Taylor Swift is and bewilderingly that has not caused my world to collapse into quantum vacuum.
And here the Brits on this site tore into me for not knowing or caring about Gangnam Style or whatever two weeks after the thing was released. I am with you though. I couldn't name one of her songs. One thing that has stayed pretty consistent in my not so short lifetime is that pop music is garbage.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 15:19 GMT Alister
To the best of my knowledge, Domain registrars mostly have a clause which states that they reserve the right to refuse or cancel a domain registration if it is judged to be inappropriate or offensive.
I don't know if this is something that individual Registrars do, or whether it comes originally from ICANN, but I'm slightly surprised that this and similar registrations are not covered by this clause.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 16:25 GMT People's Poet
Taylor Swift is sweetly pretty and I want to protect her! (Spot the reference)
While her lawyers might be some what vociferous in their approach to protect her IP, Taylor Swift is actually one of the few decent pop stars around these days. I hear all about her and her good deeds from my daughter. She regularly buys fans gifts and invites them to parties, pays off their student loans etc.
As for her music which most of is written by her, personally I don't mind it, I have to listen to it often enough so perhaps that's why.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 17:26 GMT Paul Hovnanian
Yeah, but ...
... who owns the HowToGiveHead.com domain? The business opportunities involved with the creation of subdomains ITaught<InsertNameOfPersonalityHere>.HowToGiveHead.com are almost limitless.
But judging from the picture, the ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToPutOnMakeup.com domain is still up for grabs.