[Lnc-business] .libertarian domain name

[Sam Goldstein]

http://tld.name/register-your-tld.php

Stewart,

This is the link Karl sent me.

Sam

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Daniel Wiener <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Years ago I bought the domain name "LibertarianParty.info", mostly to keep
> it out of any hostile hands, and I still maintain ownership of it.  I made
> some use of it back when I was Secretary of the Libertarian Party of
> California, but it mostly remains fallow.  I didn't pay anything extra for
> it, either when I first got it or with my annual renewals, so that small
> cost seemed worth it.  And ".info" is at least a tier-2 domain, not as
> valuable as ".com" or ".org" but better than a lot of the crap that's now
> available.
>
> I'm not convinced that it's worth $1,000 to get "Libertarian" as a
> top-level domain.  Is anyone really going to bother with such a long
> extension, when short familiar ones like ".com" and ".org" are the
> standard?  Nobody will accidentally go to a web page that ends in
> ".libertarian", so the risk of confusion or deception seems minimal.  It
> might tickle our own egos, but that's about it.  If we had lots of spare
> money I'd be tempted, but our financial situation is not good and there are
> many higher priorities.
>
> Sorry to be such a kill-joy.
>
> Dan Wiener
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> A couple members on the LPIN Leadership page just brought this to my
>> attention:
>>
>> Hey, the internet top level domain libertarian is available. This costs
>> $1,000 and would allow us to have that in lieu of .com or .org etc... we
>> would be able to seel the rights to use it for someguy(dot)libertarian
>> etc... The democrats and republicans have .democrat and . republican I
>> worry if we don't then someone else will and we will have no control over
>> it.
>>
>>
>>
>> I suggest that we jump on this as soon as possible. Either out of the IT
>> Committee budget or some other account.
>>
>> Sam
>>
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> compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if
> this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare
> the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or
> experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it
> disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key
> to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it
> doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is.
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