{"id":235440,"date":"2025-05-10T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/new-popes-com-domain-was-registered-the-day-francis-died\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:00:16","slug":"new-popes-com-domain-was-registered-the-day-francis-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=235440","title":{"rendered":"New Pope\u2019s .com domain was registered the day Francis died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<p>\t\t<!-- begin post --><\/p>\n<div class=\"single\">\n<p><strong>A domainer snapped up the .com matching the new Pope\u2019s name on the day the last Pope died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected this evening and took the name Pope Leo XIV.<\/p>\n<p>PopeLeoXIV.com was registered on the afternoon of April 21, a few hours after the news of Pope Francis\u2019 death was announced and after I tweeted on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Pope&#8217;s dead. Let the domain speculation begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DomainIncite\/status\/1914241611434689004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The name was <a href=\"https:\/\/domaingang.com\/domain-news\/pope-domain-names-taken-or-for-sale-these-are-the-top-candidates\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted by DomainGang<\/a> the following day as a likely candidate for the next Pope\u2019s name. But by then of course the domain had already been registered.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s currently parked, with no BIN price listed.<\/p>\n<p>PopeLeo.com has been registered since 2002. LeoXIV.com was registered in 2005, on the day Pope John Paul II died.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding:10px;\"><b>If you find this post or this blog useful or interestjng, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=8RE2975NPR9J2\">support Domain Incite<\/a>, the independent source of news, analysis and opinion for the domain name industry and ICANN community.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"DomainIncite\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">Tagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/domainincite.com\/tag\/pope\" rel=\"tag\">pope<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- end post --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A domainer snapped up the .com matching the new Pope\u2019s name on the day the last Pope died. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected this evening and took the name Pope Leo XIV. 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