Posted on 01/21/2009 8:43:49 PM PST by Orange1998
RALEIGH, N.C. A North Carolina man is now $35,000 richer thanks to President Bushs sheepish advisers who let his librarys Web site address expire. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports today that Web developer George Hunger was searching through a list of expiring domain names two years ago when he noticed a treasure. The Web address www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com was about to expire. bought the rights for $5. Hunger says he recently sold them for $35,000 to Florida-based Yuma Solutions, which the Bush Library Foundation said is in charge of Web site care. Company owner Mark Mills didnt return the newspapers calls. Bushs library and museum will be in Dallas. Hunger said he isnt looking for another presidential name. BarackObamaLibrary.com is already taken.
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Where do you look through a list of expired domains?
I can believe it. Some of his advisors have been fools.
Cyber squatters are the scums of the earth.
If somebody doesn't have enough sense to look ahead too bad.I say more power to 'em.
Amen bro. It’s kinda like...uh...capitalism.
Not really. I am not questioning anybody's right to squat unless there are trademark infringements, but squatters don't add anything of value to the system. In principle it's no different than a pirate asking for a ransom.
Nobody’s making them buy it-why doesn’t Bush take a .net domain then.
No they’re not. It’s called capitalism.
Who is to say that this entity has more of a right to a domain name than another entity?
You may say that GeorgeWBushLibrary.com belongs to George W Bush, but then what about BarackObamaSucks.com? What about a website called FreeRepublic.com, who owns that? What if Jim Robinson wanted to sell FreeRepublic.com, doesn’t he have a right to do that?
“@” = 2 if I remember to release the shift key.
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