Vatican to promote .Catholic domain name

The Vatican's communications department is undergoing a huge reorganization on the orders of Pope Francis.

Vatican City:  The Vatican has set up a new office to promote the use of the .Catholic domain name to make its communications relevant to the digital era.

The new office will staff eight IT experts and seek to expand the use of the domain name by all church and church-affiliated bodies "with the aim of assuring internet users they are dealing with officially sanctioned sites," according to the AFP news service.

The Vatican acquired .Catholic at the end of 2013 and acquired the equivalent domain names in Arabic, Chinese and Russian scripts, it added.

The Vatican's communications department is undergoing "a huge reorganization on the orders of Pope Francis, who has a keen grasp of the importance of the online world," AFP said.

Pope Francis has some 30 million followers in nine languages on Twitter and recently acquired 2.2 million followers during his debut on Instagram.

Source: UCAN