Not the RooCatholic Campus Ministry
The web site for Roo Catholic / Newman Campus Ministry at the
University of Akron is
at https://www.roocatholic.org/.
Please correct the URL and try again. If you followed a link, please
update it on your own web pages, or ask the webmaster/owner of the web
page you came here from to do so.
What is this domain?
RooCatholic.COM was the web site for RooCatholic's ministries when I
first joined it. At some point around 2022, the domain expired and
was then quickly registered by others -- something that unfortunately
can happen to anyone for a wide variety of reasons with the way domain
name registrations work. The new registrants then proceeded to dump
hundreds of unrelated "product" pages on to it.
Don't believe me? Here it is
on the
Internet Archive. You will want to see the years 2022 and 2023 to
see the spam URL list. I don't think I need to say this, but I would
strongly advise against loading any of the pages, unless it is in a
text-only no-JS web browser like LYNX(1), so that no malicious code
executes on your computer.
If RooCatholic were to acquire the domain name and use it again, there
may be difficulties getting search rankings due to long-lasting
penalties that Google and others apply to formerly misused domain
names. Search algorithm penalties tend to be very difficult to
remove, even when those penalties are caused by others. At this
point, continuing to use the newer .org is a way better decision.
Why do you have the name then
When I first saw it became available again, I first notified the
group's then leadership to let them know that the squatters let go of
it. At the time, the leadership showed no interest in registering it,
as they've already moved on to the .org domain. However, seeing that
it was still available in October 2025, I decided to register it
myself to prevent further abuse as there are still resources out
there, including official RooCatholic and Diocese of Cleveland
resources, that list www.roocatholic.com as its web site.
You may help greatly by notifying those you see using the old contact
information for RooCatholic to update it to their current e-mail
address and current web site. This information was pulled from
RooCatholic.ORG:
- Contact E-Mail:
- calaburda@dioceseofcleveland.org
(Christa Alaburda, campus minister)
- Web Site:
- http://www.roocatholic.org/
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
Please send comments on RooCatholic.COM to me via the below Aperture
e-mail address, and comments on RooCatholic.ORG to Alaburda via the
above Diocese of Cleveland e-mail address.
Anton McClure /
asm@aperture.akron.oh.us
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