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New Pope’s .com domain was registered the day Francis died

Kevin Murphy, May 8, 2025, Gossip

A domainer snapped up the .com matching the new Pope’s name on the day the last Pope died.

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected this evening and took the name Pope Leo XIV.

PopeLeoXIV.com was registered on the afternoon of April 21, a few hours after the news of Pope Francis’ death was announced and after I tweeted on Twitter:

Pope's dead. Let the domain speculation begin.

— Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) April 21, 2025

The name was highlighted by DomainGang the following day as a likely candidate for the next Pope’s name. But by then of course the domain had already been registered.

It’s currently parked, with no BIN price listed.

PopeLeo.com has been registered since 2002. LeoXIV.com was registered in 2005, on the day Pope John Paul II died.

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