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Taylor Swift might be young but she is no fool. In fact, she is looking like a very smart and intelligent business woman. Either that or her advisers are very smart and intelligent business people.

With the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) getting ready to release .porn and .adult to the public on June 1st, Taylor Swift hurried and bought the web domain names TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult.

The singer is most likely not planning change her career and becoming a porn actress but it does make her a potential player in the overall porn business. It only costs her $99 to purchase each domain but she could resell them for millions each if she so chooses. Is that a great investment or what? Of course the most likely reason she bought them it is protect her name from being used by real porn sites. So if someone in the future visits taylorswift.porn hoping to find porn they may be greeted instead with the singer’s music video, unless of course she decides to self release some homemade sex tapes.

Richard Branson and Stringfellows are other names to have bought .adult and .porn domains, according to ICANN.

The American non-profit group expanded the number of generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, such as .com and .net in 2011.

There were 22 four years ago but now there are nearly 550 with new ones released every month.

The group says different endings to web addresses can help users arrive at their destination quicker because they know what they’re getting.

It also says websites ending in .porn or .adult are easier for parents to monitor and block.

Another domain name being released in June is .sucks.

In January Taylor Swift applied to trademark five phrases from her latest album 1989 with the US government.

“Party like it’s 1989”, “this sick beat”, “cause we never go out of style”, “could show you incredible things” and “nice to meet you, where you been?” were all apparently registered by the singer with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.