Why NBC owns porn-sounding websites..

Pretty obvious reason when you think about it, but a nice read....

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/16706295-why-the-nbc-network-owns-porn-site-names-like-niceboobynet

 

I'm surprised there isn't a fake suffix (.web?) like there is for phone numbers (555)

 

This came up a few years ago with Conan O'Brien, too:
http://www.avclub.com/article/nbc-forced-to-buy-hornymanateecom-after-conan-bit--15706

 

I remember quite a while back, around 1997 or 98, a couple of radio hosts - not shock jocks, just run-of-the-mill clowns - in my hometown was joking around with a guest and amid the laughter, someone said "www.boobies.com" (or something to that effect). Turned out to be a real website and they had to apologize the next day.

Of course, they weren't in syndication and this was before podcasts

 

Let me guess: It was a bird-watching site.