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Vatican talks to ICANN

[tangor]

More tld domain names discussed in Mexico City

The Vatican warned the internet address-making body of the “perils” of allowing new internet domains such as “.catholic, .anglican, .orthodox, .hindu, .islam, .muslim, [and] .buddhist”.

ICANN, frequently accused of mission creep, could find itself having to decide who gets to represent an entire religion on the internet, His Holiness pointed out, in a letter from his representative on Earth, Monsignor Carlo Maria Polvani.

Religion-themed domains could provoke “bitter disputes” that would force ICANN into “recognizing to a particular group or to a specific organization the legitimacy to represent a given religious tradition,”

As reported: [theregister.co.uk...]

[artek]

It seems to me that ICANN is only trying to justify its existence. Many people searching Internet mistype .COM so how in heaven they will type correctly .BUDDHIST.
Indeed someone at ICANN is in need of divine brain intervention.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Yes, I'd much rather TLD's were restricted to something like we have now, with perhaps one or two new ones being introduced in future (mobi seems like one of those that become relevant over time).

I don't want to worry about mistyping "com" as "om" and ending up somewhere my computer's integrity might regret.

Staying away from TLD's like .catholic seems sensible, as I can't see an urgent need for the existence of them.

[edited by: brotherhood_of_LAN at 8:23 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2009]