Rogers Cadenhead has donated his BenedictXVI.com domain name to charity. My question: will a charity effectively use this domain name? I assume it will try to generate advertising from the domain for funding purposes? Nope. It will just us the domain to tell people what the charity is. And to reinforce the after-the-fact-message that Cadenhead registered the domain to keep it away from pornographers and casinos. Umm, yeah.
For more on the BenedictXVI.com domain name, see these posts:
–“Popesquatting†provides new reasons to register domains
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Rogers Cadenhead says
Why do you call it an after-the-fact decision to keep the domain away from pornographers or other unsavory use? I announced before Benedict XVI’s selection that I had bought the domains.
If I had been planning to cash out, like the guy who just sold popebenedictxvi.com for $6,000 on EBay, I could have kept quiet and just sold them.
Editor says
For the record, Roger, I’d have no problem with you selling the domain for a profit. And I don’t think you would have sold it to a pornographer. (Personally, the domain would make for a great site criticising the church.) There are many other ways to make money from a domain name. Donating any popular domain to charity is a noble thing to do.
Rogers Cadenhead says
Thanks. I’ll admit that the away-from-porn angle has been spread a lot further than I ever thought, and I keep getting thank yous from strangers who exaggerate my admirable qualities, but it was my initial impulse.
My desire to do a good deed here was affected by my belief that the domains didn’t have real speculative value. When it looked like one of the other guys sold his pope domain for $150,000 , it made my stomach hurt. (He later got $6K.)
Editor says
…and we’ll see if he actually gets the $6k 🙂