By Darren Rowse
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-04-19
In a great example of thinking ahead - Rogers Cadenhead registered the domain name BenedictXVI.com a couple of weeks ago.
‘Cadenhead, an author of 20 technology "how-to" books with titles like "Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition" and "Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days," said he registered the names for $12 each from Internet address seller Bulkregister.com.
"I couldn't resist the chance to have some skin in the game. Someone else already has JohnPaulIII.com and JohnXXIV.com, but otherwise I put a chip down on every name of the past three centuries," Cadenhead wrote on his Web log at Cadenhead.org.'
In fact Rogers secured six domain names which that all could have corresponded with a new pope's new chosen name.
This is a wonderful illustration of my previous advice to think ahead about not only what people are searching for now - but what they'll be looking for in a few weeks or months time. This is what I was doing when I started Pope Watch - but Rogers certainly trumped us all with his move! Congratulations to him.