The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is attempting to block a Vatican bid to create new web addresses ending in .catholic, arguing that the Church “cannot demonstrate that it possesses a monopoly over the term ‘Catholic’ ”.
The objection is one of more than 160 sent by the Saudis to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which plans to allow hundreds of new “top-level domains” to supplement .com, .co.nz, and other existing suffixes.