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

[eleganz]

I just listened to the Ron Paul on AJ tube and at the very end Ron mentions how it is unfortunate he doesn't have RonPaul.com and his default homepage has to be ronpaulhomepage.com

If anybody knows the owner of RonPaul.com at least let him know Ron would like to have it so he can use it as his homepage. If I was the owner, I'd give it up hands down!

I just wrote them an email:
You should consider writing them as well.
http://www.ronpaul.com/contact/

 

[sailingaway]

I strongly suspect the AJ interview will be up on RonPaul.com within the day.

 

[nobody's_hero]

I'd give him a really good deal on it, at least. But there's no telling how much that domain is worth. Imagine all the people who googled Ron Paul over the years and probably clicked on it out of curiousity.

 

[rev1689]

Here's the results of a WHOIS search:

This domain is protected by Whois Privacy Services Pty Ltd. For more information please
visit www.whoisprivacyservices.com.au

Domain ronpaul.com:
Whois Privacy Services Pty Ltd
Domain Hostmaster, Customer ID : 95459852061642
Email: [email protected]
PO Box 923
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 AU

Administrative contact:
Technical contact:
Billing contact:
Whois Privacy Services Pty Ltd
Domain Hostmaster, Customer ID : 95459852061642
Email: [email protected]
PO Box 923
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 AU
Phone: Phone: +61.730070090
Fax: Phone: +61.730070091

Record dates:
Record created on: 2000-11-22 18:05:56 UTC
Record modified on: 2012-12-17 13:26:01 UTC
Record expires on: 2020-11-22 UTC

Nameservers:
myns1.fabulous.com
myns2.fabulous.com

The owners obviously don't want you to know who they are, and are using an Australian anonymous registration service. However, you can still write an email or letter to them at the addresses above and it will be forwarded along. That said, if Ron Paul has commented on it publicly, it's quite possible that someone working for him has already attempted this in order to buy it outright... So who knows if a grassroots letter-writing campaign offering no money will yield significant results. But anyway, there's the info if you're so inclined.

 

[jmdrake]

I'd give him a really good deal on it, at least. But there's no telling how much that domain is worth. Imagine all the people who googled Ron Paul over the years and probably clicked on it out of curiousity.

Yet. http://ronpaul.tv is taken as well. (Good stuff there!) http://ronpaul.net points to http://ronpaul.com. And someone's squatting on http://ronpaul.xxx.

 

[Romulus]

/// the guy needs to give it up.

 

[2ndfor1st]

I will gladly give up a domain but I doubt he would want it.

 

[Danke]

I will gladly give up RonPaulRonPaul.com but I doubt he would want it.

Shouldn't it be ROOOOOOONPAAAAUL!!!.com ?

 

[2ndfor1st]

Ron Paul could easily have it taken from the owner under the cybersquating act. It wouldn't be difficult to prove that the owner is making money off of Ron Paul's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act

 

[Danan]

Ron Paul could easily have it taken from the owner under the cybersquating act. It wouldn't be difficult to prove that the owner is making money off of Ron Paul's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act

I don't believe Ron agrees with this law.

 

[2ndfor1st]

I don't believe Ron agrees with this law.

I agree with you, otherwise he would have done something about the 1000's of people making money off his name.

 

[twomp]

Ron Paul could easily have it taken from the owner under the cybersquating act. It wouldn't be difficult to prove that the owner is making money off of Ron Paul's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act

I hope Ron Paul doesn't go that route. I've gotten a lot of information from that website.

 

[green73]

Doesn't he own ronpaul.org?

 

[compromise]

Ronpaul.com should change to Ronpaulfans.com or Ronpaulinfo.com.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Ronpaul.com should change to Ronpaulfans.com or Ronpaulinfo.com.

That would be a good compromise.

 

[sailingaway]

OK, I agree he should want to give it up BUT he has been working it and developed its following for years. He also did not give up the RonPaul2008 youtube channel he picked up when the campaign accidentally let it lapse, so I don't think it will happen. But he DID put a legend on that it is a fan page when it kept getting confused with Ron's actual page (they still confused it, but that is because media is careless.)

BUT I think Ron should make him an offer to buy it and maybe hire the guy on board in some role. I think it is worth some effort to get the name people are naturally going to be turning to, forever, for his stuff.

 

[misean]

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.

 

[sailingaway]

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.

Voluntary donations are not anti-Ron Paul.

 

[Rudeman]

Does anyone know if Rand owns RandPaul.com or .net?


For this topic maybe he'd be willing to give up RonPaul.net and keep the .com for himself or something like that since it looks like he owns both.

 

[eleganz]

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.

Uhhhhh nobody is forcing him to do it. The point is to let he owner know so he could consider it. I don't know his motivation but it could be to benefit the movement or as a personal gift or whatever to Ron Paul. There is nothing aNti free market or Anti Ron Paul about it. Quit being anal