Cyber Squatters Grab Up More Than 600 'Pope Francis' Domain Names

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 15, 2013 @08:11AM from the there-oughta-be-a-commandment dept.

tsamsoniw writes "Although the newly appointed Pope Francis I has proven himself technologically savvy enough to use Twitter, the Vatican dropped the ball when it came to quickly registering a domain name for the pontiff after his appointment earlier this month: Within hours, cyber squatters grabbed up more than 600 domain names containing derivations of the pontiff's name, including popefrancisi.com, popefrancis.co.uk, popefrancis.org, and popefrancis.fr, according to domain-name company names.co.uk."

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Re:Because the Vatican Has Its Own TLD? by CrimsonAvenger · 2013-03-15 08:53 · Score: 4, Informative

the Church has been around administratively since Constantinople was a living human being
Umm, Constantinople was NEVER a living human being. It was a CITY.
Perhaps you meant "Constantine", the man the CITY of Constantinople was named after?

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