God dot com, anyone?

DOT God anyone? What about DOT Ram? Or maybe a Jehovah DOT, Catholic DOT, or Evangelical DOT? Do any of these sound good to you? If so, get $185,000 and apply to the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the religious domain extension of your choice, and pray!

Pray because there may be a bump or two in your quest for religiosity in Internet dominance. Expect a lot of bidders for every religious domain extension available, just like for strictly commercial extensions like Dot Hotel, Dot House or… Dot Soup. And some heavyweights in the church world are determined to nullify the very idea of ​​religious domain extensions.

The Vatican recently requested that ICANN stay out of the religion business: please, they said, no God DOT, no Protestant DOT, and certainly not Catholic period. various groups fight over their property and cause even more religious ill will.

Think about it, who gets Dot Catholic? The Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church? Who would get protestant DOT? Baptists or Lutherans? One can only imagine the violent conflict over, say, Dot Prophet. Would it be Shiite or Sunni?

The Pope is also not the only authority censoring domain names based on religion. India asked that DOT Ram not be allowed; Chrysler, of course, loves it very much. Why not Dot Ram? Ram means a big Dodge truck, but RAAM is the title of the Hindu deity! They get confused too easily.

So far, we have not been able to find out if someone is applying for the Dot Atheist or Dot Devil domain extension. Hard to believe someone wouldn’t sooner or later.

But perhaps the Pope and the Hindus need not worry. The old generic domain extensions have managed to get along without much trouble. God Dot Com is owned by the Evangelical Media Group, while God Dot Net is owned by Seek God Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian group. God Dot Info, on the other hand, hugged Mammon; It appears to be just another parked domain trying to make some money from ads. The Roman Catholic Church seems to control Catholic Dot Com, and Prophet Dot Com is… well, the website states: “We are a strategic brand and marketing consultancy. We help our clients win by delivering practical and inspired ideas.” . Nothing to worry about that!

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