[Lnc-business] .libertarian domain name

Tue Apr 21 14:31:35 EDT 2015

Daniel,

Thanks for the research.  Do you mind if I pass this on to the tech people
in the LPIN?

Sam

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Daniel Wiener <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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> *"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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