Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Gee, What will the Real Shiloh Do?

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has reserved 24 domain names featuring various versions of her daughter Shiloh Nouvel's name.

Internet registration files show the Web addresses "shilohjolie," "shilohpitt," "shilohjoliepitt," "shilohnouveljolie," "shilohnouvelpitt" and "shilohnouveljoliepitt" -- with the extensions ".com," ".org," ".net" and ".info" -- were reserved as of May 27, the baby's birthday.

Jolie has control of the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the Web addresses, for one year. Her Los Angeles-based lawyer, Evan Spiegel, did not immediately return calls for comment.

Jolie and Shiloh's father, actor Brad Pitt, appeared to have learned from the misfortunes of fellow stars Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, whose daughter's name, Suri, was co-opted by someone else who registered the URL "suricruise.com."

The site, part of which was inaccessible on Friday, features a countdown to Suri's 18th birthday -- when she will "become of age" -- and asks Web surfers to share drawings of what they think she will look like.


But we got into the news this way:

Brangelina baby blessed in West Bank

Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

"Residents of ancient and renewed Shiloh wish the new Shiloh good health and a productive life," Yisrael Medad, a community official, said in a statement circulated this week.

Shiloh means "peaceful one".

It was also the biblical site where Joshua first divided up the newly conquered Land of Israel among the 12 tribes descended from the patriarch Jacob.

Today, it is a mostly modern Orthodox community of 1,500.

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