How long till it's on ebay??? I'm guessing about one day!

No shiat...How's that for hitting a home run?

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.

YAY.
You've won!

...but at what cost?

Cybersquatting is a dispicible practice. And the fact that he admits to it doesn't make him of any more noble character.

CarolynLibrarian: Meh... he registered every open one from the last 300 years.


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

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. :)

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.

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.

Should not... dammit. Should not.

I would had sold it to the pornographers, but that's just me...

I like how there's a link to teh Vatican Secret Files on that site.

Ain't he the asshat who owns the Drudge Retort?

Its ok. SInce Pius was in bed with the Nazis during WWII, it makes perfect since to elect a Nazi Pope.

The only interesting thing about this article was the use of the term "popesquatting." Best. Word. Ever.

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.

Zing the rats!

call me uninformed or ignorant but why do popes change their name?

/methodist

greg, that's an ebay link different than the one's registered in the article

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!

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?

he should redirect it to fark. or a nasty ass porn poop fetish site.

Greg Rebellion:

wrong domain. not the one that Rogers actually registered.

I welcome our new Germain Shepard.

Sorry I meant German.

Who would buy a website for $100,000 crazy ebay seller won't get any bids. I KNOW it.

Did someone say Roger Rabbit is a domain whore?
I dunno just killin time

secret identity - RICH!

^^
Tears up ticket with name "Pope Popious the Popeness"

Me a bad kitty. Try this
link

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

does the popesquat in the woods?

Congrats RCade!

-Cheers,
Nik

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.

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.

oops. ima n00b

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).

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...)

Wasn't there a girl pope who got stone for popping out a kid?
Or am I just talking out my arse?

I say "well done" to him. Wish I would have though of it.

I've gotta go pope a squat right now.

Rogers Cardenhead looks like the geek version of Anderson Cooper. I need to go confess my impure thoughts now.

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.

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

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.

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

Duuh! Nun pr0n!

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.

Wait... Cadenhead? Not Canoehead? Oh.

Nevermind.