Pope says “God hates new domain names!”

by Jason Fischer (follow me on twitter)

enjoying the holy sacrament of mobile

enjoying the holy sacrament of mobile internet

Okay; so maybe I’m misquoting. But the fact remains that the Vatican issued a statement denouncing ICANN’s new top level domain name scheme, which allows the highest bidder to purchase whatever extension they want (source). Under the new naming system, anyone could purchase the right to use “.catholic”, instead of “.com” or “.org”, as the ending for all of their website addresses. The Holy See is concerned that this will cause disputes amongst decentralized branches of various religions.

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