The .xxx domain was approved by THE INTERNET (formally, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in March and went on sale to the public in December. As Philly.com reports, the classification works just like .com, .org, and .edu domains, but is (as the name suggests) reserved mostly for pornography and fansites for the classic Vin Diesel masterpiece of the same name.

Penn is reported to have snatched up a couple websites, although the administartion didn’t reveal which they had purchased. Our expert guesses, after the jump:

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We’ve been drooling with excitement about the prospect of Penn campus Google Street View ever since we saw the ol’ Google tricycle in June. And now, you can check it out! Have some fun gliding up and down Locust Walk, hanging out by Fisher Fine Arts, and so on. Penn Porn!

In our totally geeking out test run, our first stop was naturally the Button, which is surrounded by police barricades in the images. We were slightly disappointed by this tainted view, but anything to protect our de facto masctot…right?