No personal second level domains will be allowed for .catholic.
If you’re a follower of the Catholic faith and can’t wait to get your hands on yourname.catholic, I’ve got disappointing news for you: it’s not going to happen.
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications (PCCS), the applicant for .catholic, plans to run the domain name in a closed manner similar to .gov.
Its application states:
…individual adherents will not be eligible to register or be granted use of .catholic domain names. Dioceses, religious orders and institutions as found in the “Annuario Pontificio” (the official annual directory of all the institutions related to the Holy See) are recognised as members of the TLD Catholic Community, by virtue of their being formally recognised by the Catholic Church. This recognition is primarily, though not exclusively, evidenced by inclusion in the Annuario Pontificio. The PCCS will maintain a list of institutions formally recognised by the Holy See as falling within the Catholic Church.
All of the second level domain names will actually be registered in the name of the PCCS, and it will have ultimate control over the domains. So don’t expect any negative talk about the Catholic church on a .catholic web site.
As for those “individual adherents” to the Catholic faith, PCCS says you’ll still benefit from the new top level domain name:
Members of congregations, members of religious orders, and those involved in any other organisation affiliated with the Church: these individuals will benefit through being able to easily access information pertinent to the Church and its activities with confidence.
This is the only TLD where the dispute policy includes options of “transfer”, “cancellation” and “excommunication”.
It is good that the PCCS is purchasing the .catholic domain for the Church. This precludes the possibility of someone with evil intent spreading lies and misinformation about the Church under the .catholic domain. It seems that the .catholic domain will be limited to those entities with formal canonical recognition. These could include dioceses, parishes, Catholic universities, hospitals, and other territorial jurisdictions. The .catholic domain will identify an outfit as being officially recognized by the Church, and that is a good thing.
Fair enough with a capital C, but why should they get the lower case? I consider myself to be catholic, but certainly not a Catholic.
How about .muslim, .buddhist, .atheist, .mafia etc.? Who gets those?
@A_P: It does not matter what you consider yourself. As the meaning of the word requires, you cannot be catholic without being Catholic. Anything else is just pretending. Pretend away, if you must. Pretend you are a bishop. Pretend you speak Greek. Pretend you really understand what the word “catholic” means to history.
A.P How about .muslim, .buddhist, .atheist, .mafia etc.? Who gets those?
why do we need to bother about it? People like you always look at half empty glass.
the orandge order faciast duscrimination against the catholics, and it is us who own this country not the northern prods so prods should go back to britain where they came from, they are white british
Catholic church just like all the rest of the churches in the world today MONEY MAKING BUSINESSES FOR THERE OWN ENDS AND COMFORT YOU WILL NEVER SEE A STARVING POPE ,Christ had no GOLD When will you all learn hoard all you like it is useless when dead and can not pay for your place in HEAVEN. The CHURCHES and i mean all of them have the money / wealth to feed the world but know they keep it all stored away for there own needs and comforts PEOPLE OF THE WORLD IF YOU WANT TO HELP SOMEONE HELP YOURSELF, Stop keeping these people they are living of you.
The term ‘catholic’ cannot be confined to the Roman Catholic Church alone. It belongs to the whole Christian church. The creeds of churches other than the Roman Cathoic Church generally agree that the ‘catholic or universal church’ consists of all those throughout the world that profess Christianity — which includes millions of non-Roman Catholics. To grant the ‘.catholic’ domain name to the Roman Catholic Church alone would be unjust and insulting to innumerable Christians.
Neil, your argument is an academic one; and shows a lack of grace regarding what would best serve the entire community. Both the enemies and champions of the Catholic Church call the RCC ¨the¨ C/catholic church.
Great news btw, it would be an absolute nightmare trying to police that domain tag, and correct the misrepresentation and confusion that would´ve popped up if this had not been done. I will lobby for all groups to eliminate confusion and get their tags but as many groups are not as heirarchical as the RCC that won´t be possible in some cases.
No one, especially a catholic, wants to see a stall in criticism so please someone register the domain tags ¨.catholicismsucks¨ ¨.realcatholics¨; or for some I´ll suggest:¨.gotohell¨