[Lnc-business] .libertarian domain name

[Norm Olsen]

Checking out this link, it appears that .lp is also available.  Combining this with a distinctive logo featuring LP would be a good marketing move.

 

Let’s make ‘LP’ have the same visibility and marketing clout that ‘GOP’ currently has.

 

Norm

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Libertarian National Committee

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Sam Goldstein
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 5:39 AM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org; IT Committee
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] .libertarian domain name

 

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