PopeBenedictXVI.com Sells for $150,000

The domain name PopeBenedictXVI.com has been sold on eBay for $150,000. The sale by the Bahaman company Total Interest Ltd. (which registered the domain Feb. 1) puts an exclamation point on domain speculation on the election of Pope Benedict XVI.

The outbreak of "popesquatting" has cast the media spotlight on technology author Rogers Cadenhead, the owner of BenedictXVI.com. Cadenhead, who has been profiled in The Washington Post and interviewed on The Today Show, has been blogging about his experience.

I know in a higher sense I did the right thing by donating the domains to Modest Needs, a great charity that continues to get record traffic. But now that my gesture has actual market value, I think I'm going to spend the rest of the day curled up in a ball saying "$150,000 dollars" over and over and eating Chunky Monkey directly out of the container.

Meanwhile, the owner of Benedict16.Com has declared that pornographers and online casinos are welcome to buy it from him.

  Posted by RichM April 26, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter

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