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A Pope is a Pope -- unless he's a domain

Checking my logs this morning, I noticed that I was getting an inordinate amount of traffic from Rogers Cadenhead's Workbench. Turns out Rogers has been getting a whole lot of traffic -- say, 100 hits every minute or so -- because he's registered BenedictXVI.com. He did it weeks ago, in fact, along with registering ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com and PiusXIII.com -- successors to allt he papal names of the last 300 years.

I like Rogers. In addition to being a really smart guy, he's cool. And he's not planning to sell the name or use it for nefarious purposes, which is always nice.

(Update: Apparently Rogers was on the Today show joking that in exchange for the name, he'd take complete absolution, a trip to Rome, or maybe a mitre (the pointy hats). So I have to repost my favorite comment (of the more than 400 on his page, some of which are less than favorable).

CADENHEAD...THIS IS GOD. I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR VISITORS TO THIS WEBSITE TODAY.GET A SENSE OF HUMOR, MY CHILDREN. IT'S A WEBSITE. IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS EVEN IN MY TOP 10 LIST OF WORRIES WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY, YOU NEED TO NEED TO GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE A LITTLE MORE.CADENHEAD...I'VE TOLD RATZINGER TO COUGH UP A HAT. LET ME KNOW IF HE DOESN'T COME THROUGH.

--- GOD

Seriously. Lighten up folks, it's not like he pointed it at porn or anything.

Actually, Rogers is Catholic, so I'm rooting for the Vatican to give him not only a trip to Rome, but an audience with the new Pope. Now THAT would be cool.)

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