WashingtonPost.com (www.washingtonpost.com) announced on April 19 that a man from St. Augustine, Florida, registered the domain name BenedictXVI.com (http://BenedictXVI.com) on April 1, hoping that that would be the name of John Paul II's successor. The man in question, Rogers Cadenhead, also registered ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com, and PiusXIII.com. Cadenhead registered the names for $12 each from the Internet address seller Bulkregister.com (www.bulkregister.com). BenedictXVI.com currently links to Cadenhead's blog.
Cadenhead said that he hasn't made any decisions about what he'll do with the domain, that he didn’t registered it with the intent of making money, and that if the Vatican called and asked for the name it would be hard to say “No”.
