COLUMBIA — MU is one of almost 80,000 institutions and companies that have purchased Internet addresses designed for pornography providers — but not for the reason you might think.
MU buys .xxx domain names to protect trademark
Purveyors of porn won't be able to buy sites borrowing Mizzou name
Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5:23 p.m. CST;
updated 5:31 p.m. CST, Monday, November 7, 2011
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