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theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/pope_domain_name/
I wonder if someday the Vatican will have to come up with a system of applying imprimaturs to websites?
Vatican vetoes ‘dot god’ domain
The Pope has called on ICANN to keep religion out of the domain name system.
The Vatican warned the internet address-making body of the “perils” of allowing new internet domains such as “.catholic, .anglican, .orthodox, .hindu, .islam, .muslim, [and] .buddhist”.
ICANN, frequently accused of mission creep, could find itself having to decide who gets to represent an entire religion on the internet, His Holiness pointed out, in a letter from Monsignor Carlo Maria Polvani.
I’m sure the Holy Father doesn’t want heterodox or immoral sites to be using a .catholic domain.Religion-themed domains could provoke “bitter disputes” that would force ICANN into “recognizing to a particular group or to a specific organization the legitimacy to represent a given religious tradition,” Polvani told outgoing ICANN chief Paul Twomey.
The warning came as ICANN, meeting this week in Mexico City, kicked off the latest in its interminable series of discussions into whether and how to allow new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, in ICANN-speak) onto the internet.
I wonder if someday the Vatican will have to come up with a system of applying imprimaturs to websites?