Comments on: Ron Paul Claims There Is No Freedom To Keep His Domain Name https://techcitement.com/culture/politics/ron-paul-claims-there-is-no-freedom-to-keep-his-domain-name/ get excited Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Norman G. King https://techcitement.com/culture/politics/ron-paul-claims-there-is-no-freedom-to-keep-his-domain-name/#comment-32585 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:53:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=16708#comment-32585 I remember this happened to Glenn Beck a while back. Someone made a web site with his name on it in the domain name. Instead of a fan site, it was a political satire criticism site that made fun of Beck. Despite his best efforts and lawyers, Beck did not win in that case, and made it worse for him publicly by trying to take down the web site and take control of it. They called it the Barbra Streisand effect, after the singer/actress made a fuss over photos of her, and it only made it worse.

The owners of ronpaul.com and ronpaul.org must make a ton of money selling RP stuff and advertising as well. That is why they must be asking these high prices for the domain names, because if they sell they will lose revenue. You have to take that into consideration.

This is common practice and domain squatters do it as well. If a domain name expires, a squatter buys it out and then offers to sell it back to the person who used to own it for thousands of dollars. Sometimes even more.

Fudge it, just create therealronpaul.com or something for Ron Paul, and tell his true fans to go there instead.

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