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Pope site goes to charity

Rogers Cadenhead has donated his BenedictXVI.com domain name to charity. My question: will a charity effectively use this domain name? I assume it will try to generate advertising from the domain for funding purposes? Nope. It will just us the domain to tell people what the charity is. And to reinforce the following-the-fact-message that Cadenhead registered the domain to keep it away from pornographers and casinos. Umm, yeah.

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