RonPaul.com is available!

Hmmm... misinformation.

Your "friend" made an offer of six figures and the grassroots/campaign told him where to shove that price.

Now... the domain stands to lose almost all of it's time-value of money. No wonder you want to sell. ;)

+1

Bad business sense.
 
seriously. methinks this sounds like someone trying to scame a few grand out of someone somewhere, at worst. AT BEST they are domain squatters, unless they donate the site or at least link up.
 
5) I ask you to suspend moral judgment on this issue, and stop the personal attacks. I honestly think that reflects poorly on Ron Paul the candidate if his grass roots supporters jump to conclusions and moralizing. The owner of the domain name is not a cybersquatter, his name is Ron Paul too! The posts that say the owner of the name has a moral obligation to do any redirects are absurd.

I honestly think you are well intentioned but a bit delusional (perhaps naive). You sound like you are trying to extort money from the grassroots.

Hueylong is a good guy; if he says that this guy is playing games I would believe him and not waste time with this.
 
stevepdx,

Looks to me like you've got two potential clients.

The campaign seems non-plussed, so lets narrow that down to one.

It might not be a good idea to conduct negotiations on this forum, and expect civility , with several hundred on-lookers, especially if you decide to wag your finger at us.

+1
 
I didn't know that RP was having difficulty with people finding him online. I will say that if Paul does win the nomination or seeks and Independent bid he may want to get that site so it doesn't get bought up by Hill, O! or Johnny's folks for smearing Dr. Paul.
Those kind of shennanigans would be easily exposed, and would bite purpotrators in the ass.
 
Getting Ronpaul.com may help his internet presence in a miniscule way. However, we don't have much upside left in our internet presence.
We already dominate other candidates in that area. The domain is not worth much to us.
You mentioned a reasonable price. I would like to know the price you ask for my own entertainment.
 
Looking at the chart, the name would add a nice bump to a shortlist of grassroots chip-ins and this forum also.

Might be worth organising a chip-in for the domain, since it can only get bigger.
 
You alll are correct about the domain not being that important to the present campaign, however, in the wrong hands the domain could become pretty harmful.
 
You alll are correct about the domain not being that important to the present campaign, however, in the wrong hands the domain could become pretty harmful.

I don't think so. It would soon turn into our advantage as well. "Hillary supporters hijack RonPaul.com" would be the newsheadlines. Free publicity again.
 
i noticed in the alexa chart that the domain did get a small bump on Nov. 5th and then again on Dec. 16th.

i think that if anyone put up a negative Ron Paul Site, especially using RonPaul.com, they would get slammed out of existence.
 
Those kind of shennanigans would be easily exposed, and would bite purpotrators in the ass.

Only if reported and I wouldn't count on the traditional media to point this out and we don't know if the web is far enough along to make the difference in spreading that information in a general election. Just a thought but I wouldn't want that domain to be in the hands of the enemy during the summer of aught eight.
 
1) This thread is our first post ever on RonPaulForums.com. We have never publicly offered the name for sale, although we are considering sending it to auction.

2) We tried to contact the campaign, but they were largely non-responsive. I don't even have a contact at the campaign that I can talk to about the matter.

3) Honestly, I don't think the campaign understands the value of the name to them. The campaign should listen to its own younger-generation Internet media experts. Besides the thousands of extra visitors they would get each day, Ron Paul the candidate would acquire an asset that would be part of the Ron Paul movement -- a much better investment than a 1-time WSJ spread IMHO.

3) We are not looking for an outrageous amount of money, just a fair price.

4) I know a thing or two about domain names, and I honestly think that the ROI would be well justified given the price.

5) I ask you to suspend moral judgment on this issue, and stop the personal attacks. I honestly think that reflects poorly on Ron Paul the candidate if his grass roots supporters jump to conclusions and moralizing. The owner of the domain name is not a cybersquatter, his name is Ron Paul too! The posts that say the owner of the name has a moral obligation to do any redirects are absurd.

This domain name would be valuable for the candidate or the movement or JibJab too I suppose. Some of those interested are looking to use it for "media" purposes.

Thank you to those who have PM'ed me.

A fair price? Last time I heard, the two prices that you had offered were 10k (May-ish) and 150k (recently).

I too know a few things about websites, and those are not fair prices. That is oppurtunism.
 
I think the money that would go towards buying this domain name would be better spent elsewhere...

*cough*Operation Live Free or Die*cough*
 
doh, concern about profitting while liberty is burning. id call that gouging. he should just loan it to them till after the election.
 
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