泰勒 ▪ 斯威夫特提前購入色情和成人網站域名

Starting June 1, anyone will be able to purchase domains ending in s, t, , and hundreds of other options, with new suffixes released every month. So to protect Taylor Swift's name and brand, the singer's team has reportedly already purchased and t.
6月1日起，人們便可以購買以、t、等結尾的幾百個域名地址了，而每個月都會有新的域名後綴發佈。據說爲了保護泰勒•斯威夫特的名字和品牌，這位歌手的團隊已經購買了“泰勒•斯威夫特色情網”和“泰勒•斯威夫特成人網”兩個網站的域名。

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- the nonprofit group behind this expansion of generic top-level domains, or gTLDs -- is allowing public figures and companies to get ahead of the game by purchasing domains before they open to the public.
非營利組織“互聯網名稱與數字地址分配機構（ICANN）”是此次通用頂級域名（gTLDs）擴展的發起者，該組織允許公衆人物和公司先於普通民衆購買域名。

"For example, Microsoft has already registered and t," Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry, which operates the and t top-level domains. "The same goes for and t." Starting in June, "It's first to the buzzer," Lawley said.
運營和t頂級域名的ICM Registry首席執行官斯圖爾特•勞利說道：“例如，微軟已經註冊了和 t。和 t也屬於這種情況。”他透露，從6月份開始，“這會是第一個大熱門。”

It's a smart move for Swift to claim her name before the trolls can, but the pop star has always been business-savvy. She recently trademarked lyrics from her latest album; beat the paparazzi out of a $100,000 payday; and in a controversial move, pulled all her music from Spotify because "piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically."
斯威夫特在網絡流氓可能會濫用其姓名之前買下這兩個域名可謂明智之舉，但是這位流行歌星向來都是有商業頭腦的。最近她爲自己最新專輯裏的幾句歌詞註冊了商標；同時粉碎了狗仔隊想因爲她而掙到10萬美元的妄想；她還有一個頗具爭議性的舉措是，將自己所有的音樂從Spotify下線了，因爲“盜版、文件共享和在線播放使其付費專輯的銷量大大縮減”。

But note to Swift's team: s is operated by another company, so it's still available for purchase. The s domains will cost up to $2,500 to buy out.
不過，斯威夫特團隊要注意：s域名由另一家公司運營，所以公衆還是可以購買的。而s域名買斷的售價高達2500美元。

Before he left office, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller told ICANN he thought it was "little more than a predatory shakedown scheme" to get businesses to spend big money on defensive domain registrations.
美國參議員傑伊•洛克菲勒在離任前告訴ICANN，他認爲這“和掠奪性調整計劃差不多”，都是讓企業在註冊防禦性域名方面花費一大筆錢。

But according to CNN Money, "[ICANN] claims that its program to expand gTLDs will be beneficial for all internet users, because descriptive domains, such as thcare, s, and erdam, help ensure web users arrive at their intended destination."
但據CNN財經報道，“ICANN稱這項擴大通用頂級域名項目受益於所有網絡用戶，因爲像thcare, s, erdam等描述性域名能夠幫助網絡用戶直達預定目的地。”

"To me it's very responsible," said Steve Miholovich, senior vice president of marketing at Safenames, a domain registrar and advisory firm for websites. According to CNN, he added that "another benefit to having more descriptive domains is greater parental control over which websites their children visit. Blocking isn't always as easy for adult content sites."
域名註冊和網站諮詢公司Safenames市場部副總裁史蒂夫•米霍洛維奇說：“對我來說，這種描述性網站很可靠。”他還對CNN透露：“擁有更多描述性域名的另一個優勢是，父母對於孩子所訪問的網站能有更大的掌控。畢竟想要封堵含有成人內容的網站可不是那麼容易的。”

Vocabulary

suffix：後綴

business-savvy：精通商業的

paparazzi：狗仔隊