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Verisign Over 1,300 .Com & .Net Pope Domains Registered

March 15, 2013 by Michael Berkens

A few days ago Godaddy.com the world’s largest domain registrar reported that 479 Pope related domain names were registered within the first hour after the announcement.

Today the .com/.net Registry Verisign reported that “between the time Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation and the choosing of Pope Francis I, there were more than 1,300 new domains registered across the .com and .net top level domains with keywords related to the papacy”.

On a related note the Chicago lawyer Chris Connors, who registered the domain name PopeFrancis.com three years ago is going to give the domain to the Roman Catholic Church.

According to the Chicago Tribune, “Connors contacted officials in the Chicago Archdiocese, and Cardinal George told the Tribune on Friday that he had received the message and was delighted to hear the news.

Of course the Godaddy report included other domain registered with not only the .com and .net extensions and of course only at Godaddy.com

 

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Godaddy, VeriSign

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BrianWick says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    So clearly I am not off too far – so far – as to my $25K prediction of how much would be spent on pope related domains.
    So this attorney will be the source for domain charitable donations – because he has real skin in in now

  2. Michael Berkens says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    Brian

    And again these are just .com and .net’s not all the other TLD’s and ccTLD’s

  3. BullS says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    They are on their way to Domain Hell and in their next life, they will reg more pigeon shit domains.

  4. BrianWick says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    Exactly – and I thought $25K was going to be toward the higher end 🙂

  5. Joe says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    I don’t like this whole Pope domain thing. Donating the name to the Pope is the best way to end it all. Kudos to mr. Connors.

  6. BrianWick says

    March 15, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    The important thing is the PopeFrancis.xxx has now been reserved – now that is the best $75 investment someone can make – yes

  7. Michael Berkens says

    March 15, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    For the record I didn’t register one pope related domain

  8. Joe says

    March 15, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    @Mike

    This honors you.

  9. BullS says

    March 15, 2013 at 11:43 pm

    @Mike- in our next life, you and I going to reg all the one word domain and we gonna control the internet!! the rest will reg pigeon shit domains.

  10. DomainNameMojo says

    March 17, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    I registered two domains that have something to do with papacy history. Both of these keywords are searched exactly 1,600 and 4,400, respectively.

    In my opinion, any domains with pope, unless it is like The Pope, The New Pope, New Pope, and other pope-related domains which identify with the history of the Pope, are not a good investment.


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