BenedictXVI.com owner may give it to Vatican for big Papal hat and hotel stay

[greggish]

http://news.com.com/BenedictXVI.com...ambling/2100-1038_3-5678695.html?tag=nefd.top

He added he was considering his options for the site, but if the pope's people were to approach him to discuss taking over the site, he might make some requests.

"I'd like one of those big papal hats, and maybe three days and two nights at the Vatican hotel they built for the conclave," he said.

 

[Domagon]

I'd be surprised if they'd even want it.

The Vatican has its own ccTLD (as the article points out) ... difficult to top that.

While a .com domain may be nice for them to have, the Vatican certainly can survive just fine without it - the lack of an active "BenedictXVI.VA" registration seems to bear this out.

With that said, the BenedictXVI.com is a good domain and certainly could be developed/resold to likely earn about enough to pay their own way to the Vatican and pay for decent lodging, etc.

In a nutshell, I'd be very surprised if the Vatican would even try to obtain the domain, let alone offering free lodging in the Vatican.

To digress a bit, Whitehouse.com is a different story - that's a situation where the registrant likely could get some free nights in the White House Lincoln bedroom along with some other "insider" perks like a private tour of that infamous "undisclosed location" where Cheney often seems to be at LOL!

Back to the Vatican - their home page:

http://www.va/

Ron

.VA Whois information - may be useful for registrants of quality Pope domains to make contact:

IANA Whois Service
Domain: va
ID: va

Sponsoring Organization:
Name:
Organization: Holy See Secretariat of State
Internet Office of the Holy See
Address1: Cortile del Triangolo
Address2:
Address3:
City: Vatican City
State/Province: Vatican City State
Country:
Postal Code: VA-00120
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Registration Date: 01-January-1985
Last Updated Date: 01-January-1985

Administrative Contact:
Name: Stefano Pasquini
Organization: Internet Office of the Holy See
Address1: Cortile del Triangolo
Address2:
Address3:
City: Vatican City
State/Province: Vatican City State
Country:
Postal Code: VA 00120
Phone: +39 (06) 69893461
Fax: +39 (06) 69882067
Email: [email protected]
Registration Date: 01-January-1985
Last Updated Date: 14-January-2004

Technical Contact:
Name: Stefano Pasquini
Organization: Internet Office of the Holy See
Address1: Cortile del Triangolo
Address2:
Address3:
City: Vatican City
State/Province: Vatican City State
Country:
Postal Code: VA 00120
Phone: +39 (06) 69893461
Fax: +39 (06) 69882067
Email: [email protected]
Registration Date: 01-January-1985
Last Updated Date: 14-January-2004

Nameserver Information:
Nameserver: dns.nic.it.
IP Address: 193.205.245.5
Nameserver: dns2.it.net.
IP Address: 151.1.2.1
Nameserver: dxmon.cern.ch.
IP Address: 192.65.185.10
Nameserver: john.vatican.va.
IP Address: 212.77.0.110
Nameserver: michael.vatican.va.
IP Address: 212.77.0.2
Nameserver: ns.ripe.net.
IP Address: 193.0.0.193
Nameserver: ns.urbe.it.
IP Address: 193.43.128.2

Registration Date: 11-September-1995
Last Updated Date: 27-April-2004

* Included the name servers too, since that may be of interest since some are .va domains. The VA TLD is registered through 2099 and is both registrar-locked and registry-locked (some TLDs, such as .INFO and .TO are only partly locked down ... and some TLDs, such as .PRO aren't even locked at all; Active status).

 

[csitenet]

just take a look at this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5768889861&rd=1

 

[Fearless]

just take a look at this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5768889861&rd=1

He should have got the version that didn't start with pope. It was available when he registered this.

 

[Smith]

He should have got the version that didn't start with pope. It was available when he registered this.

Yeah I didn't give it much thought when I registered it, my name is still better than his though, I'm just not a media darling lol

PopeBenedict.com would have been the best one to register imo.

 

[Dave Zan]

Surely the Vatican is more concerned with spreading the faith than getting
involved in esoteric domain name matters. :-D

 

[mole]

If the pope doesn't want it, I'll do him a favor and except the domain :-D

 

[csitenet]

LOL Great Questions asked in http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5768889861&rd=1

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Taking offers on BennyDickedUs.com - a choir boy community portal.

 

[scottatmu]

Over $3,000 so far with 8 days left on the eBay auction ... craziness!

 

[Smith]

Over $3,000 so far with 8 days left on the eBay auction ... craziness!

About 6k now

 

[scottatmu]

wow ... 3k increase in the course of 20 minutes!

 

[csitenet]

THere are always idiots in ebay who just increase the price and bid all they want and never pay. It happend 40% of the time on Big domain purchases i seen. The most recent one was the islam.com idn went upto 1 million $

 

[Bender]

"I think I was the second-most excited person on the planet when they announced the name," he told Reuters, adding that the euphoria quickly faded as his Web server started to buckle under the weight of an estimated 1,000 hits a minute.

1,000 hits/minute equals 1,440,000 hits per day.
I don't know why, but that sounds too much....

 

[csitenet]

This looks a rather fake auction on http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5768889861&rd=1

That HIGH price and plenty of time left. Lood dodgy to anyone else?

 

[seeker]

I'd say there is a 98% chance that the seller will never get the money from this auction.

 

[csitenet]

I think its stupid to use ebay for a domain auction! i rather make an ebay auction and make a link to a domain selling site like sedo! so they can bid there!


Ebay is not going to do much about non paying bidders for that name! personally i would probably have only taken people who have min 20 + feedbacks.

 

[Rubber Duck]

I think its stupid to use ebay for a domain auction! i rather make an ebay auction and make a link to a domain selling site like sedo! so they can bid there!


Ebay is not going to do much about non paying bidders for that name! personally i would probably have only taken people who have min 20 + feedbacks.

My experience is that things are not much better at Sedo. I have had a lot of transactions fall through because the buyer cannot be traced!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

This looks a rather fake auction on http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5768889861&rd=1

That HIGH price and plenty of time left. Lood dodgy to anyone else?

I think the biggest risk is that the old dodder might kick the papal bucket. What would it be worth then?

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[Smith]

Nothing fake about the auction, at least not on my end.

I'm sure that there will be problems with non paying bidders & bs bids etc. I will be setting it us so that bidders have to contact me prior to bidding about a day or two from the end. Even if it all goes *poof* I've received private offers in the mid five figure area due to the attention this auction is receiving.

Right now I'm just having fun

 

[csitenet]

Its your auction. Great name Clearly there is nothing fake from your end but there is alot of cases from the buyer ends in ebay Best of luck with the auction.