Posted on 04/23/2014 12:59:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 23, 2014, 3:18 PM ET
Republicans Set to Roll Out ‘.GOP’ Web Addresses By Rebecca Ballhaus
Associated Press
This summer, the Republican Party is rolling out the first-ever political website suffix: .gop.
The Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices, created the new top-level domain in an effort to build the GOP’s online community, and to give the party’s online fundraising efforts a leg up. The .gop ending joins hundreds of other previously existing top-level domains, including the longstanding .com and .org, as well as relative newcomers such as .biz.
Anyone will ultimately be able to register for a .gop domain name, regardless of party affiliation, and organizers hope the label will serve as a uniting force for the party. “It creates that connection between a teenager trying to start a blog, all the way to a college group to candidates,” said Will Martinez, vice president of sales and marketing at .GOP.
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I’d prefer a “.NoThankYou”
Have the democrats already rolled out a .RAT website?
In ten years the site will read “domain name available”.
Cool. Now their sycophants on FR can have a new place to call home.
Hey, with the national-level party, .RAT could work for (R) as well — it's not like there's much difference on them.
That's true.
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jebbush at amnesty.rino
karlrove at pickpocket.rino
.RatLite
Consider it... ‘Blocked’.
TParty.GOP?
That’s generous. I give it til December 2016.
I’m really not sure what this is supposed to accomplish, it’s really sort of like a vanity license tag. The owner enjoys it, some people may notice it but in the long run it’s just extra money spent on vanity. Most people will recall the site name but default to the standard .com suffix when calling up a site from memory anyway. They’ll be losing some visitors who will abandon the effort before figuring it out.
No doubt, a bunch of consultants, strategists, and party hacks got together and thought that a domain name would be the answer to their online woes. Pure top-down, beltway thinking.
Look at what Palin did. She embraced Facebook, was mocked for it. One of the first politicians to effectively use Twitter, her supporters have their own website (C4P) dedicated to her, and Palin just recently signed a deal to do live streaming. Plus she has her TV shows, book deals, and can give speeches.
Ditto with the Tea Party. Grassroots Americans did their own thing, there was no coordination or party elders telling them what to do.
So instead of embracing this and feeding off from it, the Stupid Party decides to shell out thousands to create an Internet domain name. It's the equivalent of purchasing a dial-up ISP.
Speaking of which, this website could embrace new technology and new ways of communicating and so that ad revenue pays for the site instead of subscribers.
That is very likely outside of the Northeast and few pockets in the Midwest.
Heh. Hardly any opportunity for mischief there.
A good way to identify people for the gulag.
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