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Unknown buyer reserves Vatican.xxx domain

Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had approved the use of the .xxx suffix ...

December 22, 2011 / 10:45 IST
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Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had approved the use of the .xxx suffix for pornographic websites. Later on, 4,000 celebrity names ranging from Angelina Jolie to Donald Trump had been blocked by the ICM Registry regarding their usage as it could tarnish a person’s or brands identity. Registrations to acquire these domain names had started earlier on this month and it appears that an unlikely brand has been registered with this porn-only related suffix – the Vatican. What could be one of the funniest cases of identity theft, Reuters reports that a spokesman from the Vatican, Father Federico Lombardi said on the Vatican radio that an unknown buyer had purchased the Internet address, Vatican.xxx. Click here for full story

first published: Dec 22, 2011 10:38 am

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