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Surprisingly, endowedhosting.com was available, so I bought it. If IA or comparable ever decided to offer such a service, I’d happily hand the name over to them.



How about enrapturedhosting.com?

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/service-lets-yo/

>Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind'

>If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup YouveBeenLeftBehind.com.

[...]

Good thing the sysadmins are loving trustworthy Christians:

>Users can also upload up to 150 megabytes of documents, which will be protected by an unidentified encryption algorithm until the Rapture, then released to up to 12 nonbelievers of your choice. The site recommends that you use that storage to house sensitive financial information.

>"In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys," the site says. "There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."

There was a pretty good Law and Order episode where one of those sites accidentally triggered, sent an email confessing to somebody's crimes prematurely, which led to an unfortunate chain of events and salty remarks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343619/

>The owner of a Rapture website is killed by a man working to return Soviet Jews to Israel to fulfill Biblical prophecy. However, the killer seeks shelter at the Iranian embassy, leaving the DA's office in an unenviable position.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderS19E...

>Van Buren wonders why the emails were sent at all.

    "Yeah, but the Rapture didn't occur."
    "As far as we can tell."
    "I'm still here."
    "You mentioned."
    —Anita Van Buren, Cyrus Lupo, and Kevin Bernard




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