If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
Fark SearchWeb Fark

         more options... Create account

(Cadenhead.org) Amusing Blogger and tech writer Rogers Cadenhead wins the Pope Domain Name Speculation Lottery   (cadenhead.org) divider line 81
More: Amusing  
•       •       •

23693 clicks; posted to Main » on 19 Apr 2005 at 8:02 PM   |  Make this a Fark FavoriteFavorite    |   share: Share on OMGTWITTER WEB2.0share on StumbleUponshare on Facebook  more»   |    Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends! shirt it!

81 Comments   (+0 »)


Archived thread
First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all
 
penywisexx 2005-04-19 04:05:15 PM  
How long till it's on ebay??? I'm guessing about one day!

 
Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark] 2005-04-19 04:32:31 PM  
No shiat...How's that for hitting a home run?

 
CarolynLibrarian 2005-04-19 04:37:32 PM  
Meh... he registered every open one from the last 300 years. Hardly a home run, more like betting on lower 1/3 at roulette. Still pretty cool, though.

 
Heroic Poser 2005-04-19 04:56:33 PM  
YAY.
You've won!

...but at what cost?

 
pshaw 2005-04-19 05:55:21 PM  
Cybersquatting is a dispicible practice. And the fact that he admits to it doesn't make him of any more noble character.

 
Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark] 2005-04-19 06:25:06 PM  
CarolynLibrarian: Meh... he registered every open one from the last 300 years.


Read that after my post...All I saw was his top 6...

 
Ang6666 2005-04-19 06:30:53 PM  
Why is cybersquatting despicable?? I can think of a million worse things to do. Such as spelling a word incorrectly for all the world (or net) to see. :)

 
NineInchNader 2005-04-19 08:07:41 PM  
Update: A few news reports suggest that I might have popesquatted BenedictXVI.Com to sell it to pornographers.

Um... the words 'popesquat' and 'pornography' really should appear in the same sentence. Ever. Jesus, even I have some standards.

 
ZAZ [TotalFark] 2005-04-19 08:08:02 PM  
If he got control of www.va, then I'd be impressed. Otherwise this sort of domain name hoarding seems a pointless waste of time and money.

 
NineInchNader 2005-04-19 08:08:46 PM  
Should not... dammit. Should not.

 
putita_caliente 2005-04-19 08:09:34 PM  
I would had sold it to the pornographers, but that's just me...

 
Rachelingua 2005-04-19 08:12:21 PM  
I like how there's a link to teh Vatican Secret Files on that site.

 
Flipper the Dolphin 2005-04-19 08:13:24 PM  
Ain't he the asshat who owns the Drudge Retort?

 
dying_one_day_at_a_time 2005-04-19 08:22:13 PM  
Its ok. SInce Pius was in bed with the Nazis during WWII, it makes perfect since to elect a Nazi Pope.

 
rtflakfizer 2005-04-19 08:23:00 PM  
The only interesting thing about this article was the use of the term "popesquatting." Best. Word. Ever.

 
Valdemiro 2005-04-19 08:23:29 PM  
Come on now,it wasn't like he magically pulled one name out of a barrel. Look I'll save you the time and register these names...

DonaldTrump3rd.com
Martinlutherking4th.com
FreddiePrinceJrJR.

 
Greg Rebellion 2005-04-19 08:25:07 PM  

 
RockIsDead 2005-04-19 08:27:20 PM  
Zing the rats!

 
unauthorizedbio 2005-04-19 08:27:21 PM  
call me uninformed or ignorant but why do popes change their name?

/methodist

 
kryhme 2005-04-19 08:28:45 PM  
greg, that's an ebay link different than the one's registered in the article

 
NineInchNader 2005-04-19 08:29:24 PM  
call me uninformed or ignorant but why do popes change their name?

Duh, like Superman went around answering to the name Clark Kent? They have to maintain the secret identity!

 
Slan 2005-04-19 08:31:12 PM  
putita_caliente: I would had sold it to the pornographers, but that's just me...

but that lends to the question, what type of porn would be on it?

 
moops 2005-04-19 08:31:24 PM  
he should redirect it to fark. or a nasty ass porn poop fetish site.

 
gar1013 2005-04-19 08:31:27 PM  
Greg Rebellion:

wrong domain. not the one that Rogers actually registered.

 
zippythechimp 2005-04-19 08:31:43 PM  
I welcome our new Germain Shepard.

 
zippythechimp 2005-04-19 08:32:42 PM  
Sorry I meant German.

 
KrysinskiMan 2005-04-19 08:34:03 PM  
Who would buy a website for $100,000 crazy ebay seller won't get any bids. I KNOW it.

 
smeegle [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-04-19 08:35:51 PM  
Did someone say Roger Rabbit is a domain whore?
I dunno just killin time

 
ghare 2005-04-19 08:37:15 PM  
secret identity - RICH!

 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2005-04-19 08:37:49 PM  
^^
Tears up ticket with name "Pope Popious the Popeness"

 
Greg Rebellion 2005-04-19 08:38:53 PM  
Me a bad kitty. Try this
link

 
smeegle [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-04-19 08:39:06 PM  
I think he should be made to jump up and down until something becomes dislodged from his "cavity".
oops wrong thread.
//
sorry it just slipped out

 
acronym 2005-04-19 08:41:14 PM  
does the popesquat in the woods?

 
niknatas 2005-04-19 08:42:18 PM  
Congrats RCade!

-Cheers,
Nik

 
garkola 2005-04-19 08:47:14 PM  
What kind of porn would he put on his site?

How about altar boys?

<sorry>

Anyhow, he says he's a good Catholic, and will be clearing his plans through his grandmother. So unless grandma has an unexercised fetish, it'll be going to the Vatican soon.

 
MC Gusto 2005-04-19 08:48:56 PM  
Dancing in Anson -- Read that after my post...All I saw was his top 6...

That is the list of names used for the last three hundred years. Just the last number of each.

 
Animatronik 2005-04-19 08:50:45 PM  
garkola </b
that should be "unexorcised fetish"

 
Animatronik 2005-04-19 08:51:22 PM  
oops. ima n00b

 
teluekh 2005-04-19 08:51:38 PM  
The tradition of popes taking new names iirc. comes from one ancient Pope thinking it would be stupid to be Pope under his given name (he was named after the Roman god Mercury).

 
wjllope 2005-04-19 08:54:54 PM  
i almost hate to say this. but i remember when we were asked by our admins to stop using decnet and to start using this wierd new 'internet protocol' where instead addresses were groups of numbers, and some places had groups of words too.

do i wish i would have made one connection and thus registered (for like 70 bucks), i don't know, something generic like business.com? (sold for 7 M$ IIRC)

sigh. these days though the thing is overplayed and annoying.. (i.e. misspelling sites like (making this up) gookle.com...)

 
smeegle [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-04-19 08:55:45 PM  
Wasn't there a girl pope who got stone for popping out a kid?
Or am I just talking out my arse?

 
Alex Chilton 2005-04-19 08:55:52 PM  
I say "well done" to him. Wish I would have though of it.

 
lbn 2005-04-19 08:56:04 PM  
I've gotta go pope a squat right now.

 
blueberrybruises 2005-04-19 08:56:39 PM  
Rogers Cardenhead looks like the geek version of Anderson Cooper. I need to go confess my impure thoughts now.

 
orion_blastar 2005-04-19 08:57:52 PM  
I thought about Pope George Ringo I, since John Paul was one half of the Beatles, might as well name the new Pope after the other half of the Beatles.

 
rob.d 2005-04-19 08:58:39 PM  
Benedict XVI...and some guy in Oakville gets PopeBenedictXVI.com and wants 100K USD.

PopeBenedictXVI.com or BenedictXVI.com?

Falls into the who cares catagory.

Off topic..this is funny. A buddy of mine has bet a 100 bux that this new pope will NEVER EVER give a blessing with just his right arm up. He said, "that would look too much like a sieg heil!".

While speaking he was moving his right arm up and down.

Basil II.

r

 
g026r 2005-04-19 08:59:51 PM  
MC Gusto

That is the list of names used for the last three hundred years. Just the last number of each.

With the exception of Gregory; but, unlike the others, that one's only been used once in that time span.

 
StinkyPinky 2005-04-19 09:02:56 PM  
Slan
but that lends to the question, what type of porn would be on it?

Duuh! Nun pr0n!

 
toraque [TotalFark] 2005-04-19 09:03:08 PM  
I will have to admit, if I had the domain, I'd host it in some third world country and put up a bunch of nazi porn on it.

//screw this 'window seat' crap, I'll be driving the bus.

 
Henchman 2005-04-19 09:05:19 PM  


Wait... Cadenhead? Not Canoehead? Oh.

Nevermind.

 
Displayed 50 of 81 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all


[Continue Farking]