July 18, 2012. (Romereports.com) The Vatican is looking to organize some of the Church’s activities on the internet by buying the web domain “.catholic”.
It will serve as a place for different parishes, dioceses and religious orders to be easily recognized as Catholic institutions on the web.
Just like the Catholic Church has to maintain their properties in the physical world, they will now make updates on the websites that carry the name “.Catholic”. These online activities will help to keep the Church’s online message up to date.
The purchase of the domain doesn’t come cheap. The Vatican paid $740,000 to apply for .catholic in four languages.
Hey Pope Benedict XVI, curtjester.catholic would be real cool don’t you think?
Catholic answers could have catholic.catholic instead of just catholic.com.
If there was a .protestant it would have over 30,000 sub domains.
Now shouldn’t .heaven be a top level domain, really that is the ultimate top level domain.
Rumor has it that Nancy Pelosi will be buying the top level domain .antiCatholic.
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I like the .heaven idea, but at the cost of these things…
I read that only Catholic institutions will be allowed to use this. It will be interesting to see if they approve things line georgetown.catholic. I vote against it (not that anyone cares).
It would be nice if there were at least a blogger subdomain available, (curtjester.blogger.catholic) but it would probably be too difficult to police.
“… She’s suing the diocese for being denied access to the holy domain name. ‘I know in my heart I’m Catholic,’ she said, regardless of what the bishop and pastor and Catechism say.”