"The Vatican has come out in first place in a long-awaited draw to expand the Internet address system with new domain names that go beyond the usual .com, .org or .net endings.
Ain't nothing wrong with that....they should have a way to control their name & it's use online...but Papal Rome clearly is powerful on the world stage....after nearly 2,000 years....
...................the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12
ICANN, the corporation that oversees the Internet address system, announced this week the domain name .catholic written in Chinese characters will be the first bid it considers in a drive to expand and reorganize sites on the World Wide Web.
The same extension in Arabic letters ranked 25th in the random draw and the Vatican's application for a version in Cyrillic for Russian and other Slavic languages came in 96th.
Ranking high means the applicant could get approval early next year to operate the new domain and approve addresses using it. In the Vatican's case, Rome could then ensure only genuine Roman Catholic institutions get to use that domain name.
"This is a way to give a coherence and authentication to our presence in the digital arena," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
"Anyone looking online will recognize the site belongs to an institution that belongs to the Catholic Church," he said, adding the new, so-called top level domain names (|TLDs) could also help speed online searches." Reuters
Ain't nothing wrong with that....they should have a way to control their name & it's use online...but Papal Rome clearly is powerful on the world stage....after nearly 2,000 years....
...................the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12
