[Lnc-business] .libertarian domain name

[Daniel Wiener]

I just spent a few minutes doing research on generic top level domains
(gTLDs) and the variants being offered.  And I ran into a whole bunch of
controversy and warnings and caveats, including such concerns as to whether
existing browsers and search engines will be able to recognize the more
exotic domains.  More importantly, ICANN must approve all new top level
domains, which it is doing slowly and at considerable expense, for a very
limited selection of new names.  (One article said that the registration
fee was $185,000 plus another $25,000 per year to maintain it.)

I'm not at all convinced that paying $1,000 to some company like "tld.name"
(the link Sam sent below) will actually buy us a top level domain.  Even if
this company (or a some other such registrar) is not an outright scam, the
most it is likely to do is submit a request to ICANN.  That doesn't
guarantee anything.  All they are trying to do is panic us (and other
companies and organizations) into rushing to apply before anyone else tries
to grab a particular name or word, so that we have first dibs in case it is
ever approved.

Whenever I'm confronted with a sales pitch which is the equivalent of "only
the first ten callers will get this special deal" or "this offer will
expire in the next ten minutes" my instinctive reaction is to ignore it.  I
think we're best off ignoring this incredible deal, and using the $1,000
for more important purposes.

Dan Wiener

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>> guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we
>> 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.
>> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”*
>> -- Richard Feynman (https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps)
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-- 
*"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we
guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we
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.
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”*
-- Richard Feynman (https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps)
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