Whoever owns ronpaul.com consider voluntarily giving it up to Ron Paul.

The owner knew that this day could/would come. Cybersquating is a big problem with trademarks. It would be one thing if he weren't making money off the use of the name, but he's making a living off Ron Paul's name.

You'll notice I don't have a single ad on my website and I'm using Ron Paul's name. If I had, I would have understood the risk before making the decision and known that my enterprise would eventually come to an end.

I would be willing to bet that Ron Paul wouldn't pay him a dime for his own name. Also, I highly doubt Ron would take action on this but I would bet Tom Woods would if someone was profiting off his ... :)
 
I think it was fine for him to own ronpaul.com while Ron was in politics and had his house and campaign websites. Now that Ron is a private citizen, I think it's a bit tacky to be making money off his name to be honest.
 
I used to own a domain that was a deceased famous artist's name. The lawyer letters scared the heck out of me and I gave it up but I wasn't making anything off of it.
 
Lucille said:
Yeah, he's got them all! RonPaul.org too. He can give up ONE of them, for crying out loud!

ronpaulhomepage.com is just ridiculous.
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Once he has dotcom the others are too similar (he can keep .xxx I don't think he'll abuse it and others might...)
 
Compromise:

Ron Paul can run the site for his purposes but the original owners gets all the ad revenue.
 
SpreadOfLiberty said:
Compromise:

Ron Paul can run the site for his purposes but the original owners gets all the ad revenue.
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Ef that, this is going to be Ron's business. Whatever he uses will be big but if his supporters stop going to RonPaul.com because they are pissed, and Ron doesn't get to use his own name, no one benefits. On the other hand, reasonable payment isn't outlandish to expect, the man did work up his own web site.
 
Lucille said:
Yeah, he's got them all! RonPaul.org too. He can give up ONE of them, for crying out loud!

ronpaulhomepage.com is just ridiculous.
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It is totally ridiculous especially considering Ron is leading c4l, free foundation, has his campus and paid speaking gigs.

Nobody is saying the owner should give it up but as true supporters, giving it up shouldn't really be a question

Just kindly write him and let him know. I put the contact link in the op
 
I own ronpaul.name

He can have it if he contacts me :)

I hate to say this...but if I were the owner of RonPaul.com, I would be very hesitant to give it up to RP. Why? First of all, it cost him more than $25,000 to acquire it when it was auctioned on Ebay a few years ago. Second, the owner of ronpaul.com is also the owner of ronpaul2008.com, the domain that was used for the Ron Paul 2008 campaign. Ron Paul's incompetent campaign staff failed to pay $10 for a domain registration renewal and let it expire and he said he was very lucky to acquire it and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. RonPaul2012.com is due to expire on March 23, 2013 and as usual Ron Paul's incompetent campaign staff hasn't renewed the domain registration and it is likely to expire as well. So I doubt the owner of RonPaul.com is going to hand over his extremely valuable domain to a bunch of incompetent campaign staff who are going to let it expire.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...m-domain.-Incompetent-CFL-staff-let-it-expire

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, RonPaul.com <[email protected]> wrote:


From: RonPaul.com <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Questions about ronpaul2008.com from a Ron Paul supporter
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 12:57 PM

Yes, we recently acquired RonPaul2008.com. The domain was previously controlled by a former Ron Paul campaign staffer who apparently abandoned it and allowed it to expire. The traffic to RonPaul.com has increased notably. In the wrong hands RonPaul2008.com could have done a lot of harm; the domain is a true search engine powerhouse that would have immediately outranked all other Ron Paul sites (including RonPaul.com). I believe we were very fortunate to find ourselves in the right place at the right time.

Thanks for your interest - you're the first (and so far the only) person to take notice. :)

Regards,

Tim
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misean said:
The most anti-Ron Paul thing that person could do is give it up voluntarily. They were smart enough to get the site in the first place and then drive traffic to it. They deserve to get paid.
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He can change the domain slightly without giving it up.
 
5,000? I think he paid 50k for it.

The other thing is randpaul.com is owned by someone too, possibly the same person. That needs to be acquired for Rand especially if he's the GOP nominee!

I dont know why RAND didn't get that name long before anyone knew who he was? like in 07 it was probably available.
 
itshappening said:
5,000? I think he paid 50k for it.

The other thing is randpaul.com is owned by someone too, possibly the same person. That needs to be acquired for Rand especially if he's the GOP nominee!

I dont know why RAND didn't get that name long before anyone knew who he was? like in 07 it was probably available.
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yeah, i just read through the whole thread. oops. looks like some top dollars aught to be spent.
 
He could probably take it via the Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which is arbitration rather than using the Cybersquatting act.

RandPaul.com is the other main concern, if for example he won the GOP nominee he could lose millions of dollars in donations by not having that domain.

All so someone can just host a blog on it with news links?

What a joke.
 
itshappening said:
He could probably take it via the Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which is arbitration rather than using the Cybersquatting act.

RandPaul.com is the other main concern, if for example he won the GOP nominee he could lose millions of dollars in donations by not having that domain.

All so someone can just host a blog on it with news links?

What a joke.
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If I were Ron Paul I would hire a lawyer that does this for a living and get the domain. I think it would be a slam dunk case.
 
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