Vatican.XXX : who is behind it ?
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It was essential for many companies, associations, universities (and many others !) to keep their brand porn-free by acquiring .XXX domain names .For example, the University of Illinois in the United States registered IllinoisState.XXX, RedBirds.XXX and StateYourPassion.XXX domain names or Disney, Coca Cola, Google, The Louvre Museum in Paris etc. Is it also what the Vatican aimed to do recently with the Vatican.XXX ?
It could have been the new scandal around the sulfurous .XXX extension. This month, a mysterious buyer registered vatican.XXX, leaving speculations behind on who it could be and for what use. Rumors said it was the Vatican himself. But last Wednesday, on the radio, the reverent Federico Lombardi asserted that Vatican.XXX had been "acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican". So it seems now clear that the Vatican did not register this domain in order to keep it out of the hand of pornographers.
ICM Registry, who manages and operates .XXX reacted to that and claimed that no one was able to register this domain name.
"Vatican.xxx is a name that is on the permanent reserve list, so it was pulled out of the registry before the launch, no one is able to purchase that name ", said Jocelyn Johnson, a representative for ICM Registry.
For once, many are on ICM Regitry's side, just like Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Bishops : "It is showing that people are taking responsibility in recognizing that anything can be used for ill as well as for good (...) and you have to take precautions that our technology is not used for ill."
The precaution of ICM Registry which initially started this entire story has made a lot of noise but in a way, maybe that this time it will be very positive for his image.
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Posted on : 29/12/2011
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