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Picking the Pope's Domain Name
April 2005
If the newly elected pope wants his own
website, he'll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead
first.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased
the rights to BenedictXVI.com on April 1 -- more
than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger announced that he would assume the
papacy under the name of Benedict XVI.
In an interview shortly after Ratzinger's
announcement Tuesday, Cadenhead said the purchase
of the domain name was more of an educated guess
than divine guidance.
Newly elected popes often take the names of
previous popes in honor of them. So when media
reports last month revealed that Pope John Paul II
was in his final hours, Cadenhead worked out the
possible names that the new pope might select and
set out to buy those domains.
He ended up buying six in all -- including
ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com,
PaulVII.com and PiusXIII.com. Some domains, like
JohnPaulIII.com and JohnXXIV.com, already were
taken.
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