The Church of Scientology owns thousands of domain names, including over 1,000 registered to protect its leader David Miscavige’s name.
The Church of Scientology knows a thing or two about gripe sites. Not only is the controversial organization subject to countless sites lobbing allegations about it, but it also runs its own gripe sites. For example, it runs a site at WhoIsJeffHawkins.com to discredit critic Jeff Hawkins.
So it doesn’t come as a big surprise that the organization makes a lot of defensive domain name registrations. I started noticing these domains when the group began consolidating domain names at brand protection registrar Mark Monitor this month.
DomainTools records 3,781 domain names registered to Church of Scientology International and 790 domains to Scientology’s Religious Technology Center. In my research I found hundreds of domains registered by the groups that use Whois privacy, and there are perhaps hundreds or thousands that I did not uncover.
What types of domains are they protecting?
David Miscavige
Domain names including Scientology leader David Miscavige’s name make up nearly 40% of the domain names with public Whois records. Of the 4,571 domains with public Whois leading back to Scientology, 1,760 contain the name Miscavige. Examples are:
videosdavidmiscavige.com
biography-david-miscavige.info
church-of-scientology-leader-david-miscavige.us
official-site-david-miscavige.mobi
A few of the domains with Miscavige in them are related to David’s relatives.
Other Scientology Names
While Miscavige is the most protected name in the domain portfolio, many of the other domains cover both insiders and critics. Insiders with protected names include Karin Pouw, Gregory Wilhere, David Bloomberg and dozens of others. Almost all of these domains are in the format whoisNAME.tld or who-isNAME.tld, e.g. whoisdavemiscavige.com. Oh, and there’s tomcruise-scientologist.com.
On the critic’s side, there are the domains related to Jeff Hawkins. There are also names critical of David Miscavige’s dad, Ron Miscavige, who became a critic of Scientology. Scientology has a gripe site at ronmiscavigebook.com and also owns ronmiscavige-ruthless.com and ronmiscavigeshameless.info.
Critical Names
There are many combinations of terms you can use to hate on a group and Scientology has a least a few of them covered.
scientologistssuck.info
scientologykills.us
scientologylies.com
scientology-abuse-at-the-top.info
You get the idea.
New TLDs
Scientology has also grabbed some names in new top level domains. Here are a few examples:
welcometotheageofanswers.church
scientology.cool
welcometotheanswersage.exposed
Good domain names
Scientology’s portfolio includes some domain names that have good generic value as well. Some examples are:
cause.com
clear.org
flag.org
flag.us
ot.org
theta.com
Dare you to say that they are a “Cult” .Lol. Wasn’t it Hubbard who started it ?
Yes, L.Ron Hubbard started up the Church of Scientology, supposedly on a $1 bet.
Up until the mid 1980s in Australia, Scientology was classified as a cult until they went to court to be legitimised as a church.
They succeeded due to passages in the Bible where Eve is tempted by a talking snake at which point the courts found in their favour as far as qualifying them as a recognized church with all the benefits associated with such a status.
Specifically as regards tax exemption and ability not to report their assets and income.
What the census has revealed is that the Church of Scientology is not as big as they claim.
If you ever filled out one of their “personality tests”, then congratulations, you are now on their books as a member of the Church of Scientology (irrespective of your beliefs regarding this matter)
Not can your information be removed…a friend had a flatmate who did the test and still gets mail sent to her, even though she hasn’t lived at the address in well over a decade (RTS/Not at this address messages are simply ignored)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32WHFWf8XU
I had to sign over all my domains when I joined….for a billion years!
Then Tom Cruise had me kicked me out when they noticed they were all pigeon sh*t names!
I called David, he never answers my emails!
Son, you’ve got to complete the OT3 incident at least. Or better become OT8. My successor can’t waste his precious time on uncleared thetans (and you, Xenu, look like a very dirty one!).
And somewhere in the distance, a coo-coo clock chimes…
Scientology has over 500 domains for David Miscavige’s father. Some generic, some trying to block possible book titles. When the book Ruthless was published, they directed them all to the Ron Miscavige slander site.
Watch out Andrew, or you’ll find yourself on the other end of a hit piece!
WhoIsAndrewAllemann.com
What a pity they’re sitting on quality domains like cause.com, clear.org, flag.org, and flag.us! Those names could be used to good purpose, but they cannot be affordably bought from this organization. Theta.com at least they’re using.
Again this old line crops up.
Did Hubbard say that the best way to make a lot of money was to start a religion? Who knows? Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. And even if he did, we don’t know in what context he might have said it. He might have said, “My mate Billy Graham said that the best way to make a lot of money was to start a religion.” And people conveniently omitted the first part of his statement.
Quoting out of context is a common technique used by those who want to make Hubbard appear evil. A common quote is, “The only way to control people is to lie to them.” Out of context, this makes it appear that Hubbard is suggesting that you like to people to control them. He’s not. If you listen to the rest of the tape, you’ll find that he’s pointing this up as a technique used by governments to control the masses. They tell you a lie in order to control you. There was plenty of that before the US invasion of Iraq, wasn’t tjhere? “THey have WMDs. We know where they are.”
He might have said it as a joke. Or he might not have said it at all.
All this is irrelevant. Hubbard describes Scientology as an applied religious philosophy. First and foremost, it is a philosophy. It concerns YOU, yourself and what YOU are is a spirit. It is spiritual in nature. And it is APPLIED. You don’t just learn it to pass tests, you USE it, as you use your computer, to DO stuff.
If anyone reading this has ever been in a Scientology organization and has some idea of the incredible volume of work put out by Hubbard, it is utterly astounding. In 46 years he put out enough material to FILL the space in the average university library. One man!
If his purpose was to get rich, he didn’t have a lot of time to enjoy any riches. That guy WORKED. He didn’t have weekends. He didn’t have summer holidays. He just worked. He wrote, he researched, he audited, he lectured, he designed and oversaw courses. EVEN if he said this, he certainly didn’t live the kind of life this statement suggests.
Personally, I doubt very much that he said this. I think it’s someone putting words into Hubbard’s mouth.
“What you observe is what you observe. Look at things and life and others directly, not through any cloud of prejudice, curtain of fear or the interpretation of another.” L.Ron Hubbard
lol @ JOHN DAVIS – good to see OSA hard at work again. Failing miserably as usual, too. How’s Xenu? Still in his mountain fortress??
In 1970 FDA official Bud Loftus interviewed science fiction collector Sam Moskowitz as part of the FDA’s medical fraud case against the Church of Scientology using the E-meter. In the interview Moskowitz mentioned he once heard Hubbard say, “The only way to make a million dollars was to form your own religion.”
Later, FDA official Charles Everline had a follow-up interview with Moskowitz concerning the quote from Hubbard. Moskowitz said Hubbard made the remark when Hubbard was the guest speaker at the November 7, 1948 meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Society. Moskowitz claimed the meeting minutes still existed in 1970 and indicated Hubbard made the remark during the question/answer period of the meeting. More details can be found here:
https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/fantasy-times-sam-moskowitz-interviewed-about-hubbard-by-the-fda/.
“In 46 years he put out enough material to FILL the space in the average university library. One man!”
Clearly, you underestimate the number of books in a university library.
Suppose we chained Hubbard to a type writer and whipped him for 42 years, typing continuously at 100 words per minute for 12 hours per day:
12 hours per day
x 60 minutes per hour
x 365 days per year
x 42 years
x 100 words typed per minute
x 1 page per 250 words
x 1 book per 200 pages
=
22,075 books
I doubt his organization published more than 1/10th that many. And he probably personally wrote fewer than 1/10th of those. 200 books would be prolific.
For comparison, my alma mater has 4.5 million books.
They previously purchased new gTLDs including Business.Management and Management.Tips. I think for Business.Management they paid in the region of $10,000 through DNS.