Who Owns The Vatican.xxx Web Address? Not The Vatican

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content.


"This domain is not available because it has been acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican radio.


It was not clear from his statement if the Vatican had tried to acquire the domain in order to prevent future misuse and had been beaten to the punch by the unknown buyer.


Lombardi denied Italian media reports that the Vatican had, like many other organizations including companies, universities and museums, registered the xxx domain to prevent its misuse.


The xxx domains are being launched this month for pornographic content and many organizations have preemptively acquired them so others cannot.


(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Barry Moody)

Comments

[ThinkHappyThoughts]

11:06 AM on 12/22/2011

Odds are the Church bought it anonymously HOWEVER if not then it could get really bad..........nun porn would be the least of their worries.

[czs5056]

08:34 AM on 12/22/2011

nun porn maybe?

[RadicalAmerica]

03:10 AM on 12/22/2011

The Vatican missed a perfect opportunity to supplement the churches income with an XXX domain.
Think of all the thumbnails of little boys they could have posted from the pedo priests who most undoubtedly took some keepsakes of their romps. Maybe even some streaming videos of what sister mary was wearing or not wearing.
Opportunity missed.

[krkincaid]

08:48 PM on 12/21/2011

i bet Berlusconi bought it

[RevengeRook]

07:40 PM on 12/21/2011

WOW----you KNOW the Vatican wants that one--I would "flip" it to them in a heartbeat---that is AFTER I used it as an informative website on the more interesting side of the Catholic Church.