The Holy See buy vatican.xxx to avoid it being used as a pornographic website
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The Holy See has bought the domain vatican.xxx in order to avoid that you use to create websites with pornographic contents before American society that manages the addresses of the Internet, ICANN, put on sale with triple x domains on 6 December.

In the Internet world, the three X are used to indicate material for adults.

For this reason, the Vatican has acquired the domain before possible undue farms in the first phase of sale, in which well-known trademark owners have the right to buy their own names, as reported by Vatican Insider of the newspaper La Stampa web portal.

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