The University of Notre Dame decided to protect the school's trademarks from being used by pornographers and registered four domain names .
The University spent $1,319.96 for notredame.xxx, universityofnotredame.xxx, fightinirish.xxx and domer.xxx. "We stand for certain values, and some people who may want to use our marks may not stand for the same values as us," said University of Notre Dame Chief Spokesman,Dennis Brown,according to fox28.com .
Many other UNiversities around the world did the same thing in order to keep them out of the hands of pornographers .Illinois State University registered IllinoisState.XXX , RedBirds.xxx and StateYourPassion.xxx .Penn State University also acquired four .XXX domain names : Penn State, PSU, Nittany Lions and The Pennsylvania State University,while East Carolina University registered a total of eight .XXX domains,such as eastcarolina.xxx, ecu.xxx,eastcarolinauniversity.xxx,eastcarolinauniversitypirates.xxx and leojenkinscancercenter.xxx .