Colbert for pope? Over 100 “pope” domains registered yesterday
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
A retiring pope? Some smell a profit opportunity.
After the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, I wrote about some of the likely names for the next pope and their registration status. (Hint: they’re all registered.)
Although the likely names were taken long ago, that didn’t stop people from registering over 100 .com domain names yesterday that included “pope”.
A lot of the domains are bets on who might be next, including popejuliusiv.com, popeposterous.com, and popepeterthesecond.com.
But many of the other domains are more amusing.
Consider ColbertforPope.com, registered by a Washington D.C. man.
I also like the visual from PimpMyPope.com, which it turns out is actually the name of an existing game.
Hoping for a little diversity? FirstBlackPope.com and NewBlackPope.com were both registered. (Of course, no one was silly enough to register a domain related to a female pope.)
TopPope.com would be good for a show like America’s Next Top Model.
And despite the hyphens, I kind of like the ring of Pick-a-pope.com.
You can see a full list of the registrations here.
Tags: pope
Yes I was one who registered last night http://www.PopePoll.com just for short-term fun.
Yes and GoDaddy and Enom Inc are the true winners here!
I also tried to register two pope domain names but I didn’t get. it’s already registered. I am very sad!
Give the pope a call through http://www.Francis.tel
I have the “pope” here….
iPopeFrancis.com
anyone interested in this? let me know