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Posted on 12/07/2011 12:17:40 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Looking for Rick Perry's campaign website?
Make sure you get the URL right: RickPerry.org. If you instead type in RickPerry.com, you'll be sent to the website of a fellow Texan, Rep. Ron Paul.
But the Paul campaign says this wasn't their work.
"The Paul campaign does not have anything to do with this and does not appreciate this sort of thing," campaign spokesman Gary Howard told National Journal. "We are working now to resolve the issue."
Indeed, a search of domain-name records shows that Paul's real domain name is hosted at the popular registry GoDaddy and RickPerry.com is hosted by fabulous.com. Interestingly, domain-name records show RickPerry.com was originally registered in 1998, according to the records, when Perry was Texas agriculture commissioner.
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I agree with you if you are saying that the Perry people are extremely stupid for letting this happen (doesn’t Rick have any kids, or friends with kids?).
C’mon.
But still, there should be some rules regarding public names.
You shouldn’t be able to direct www.michelebachmann.com to a porn site, even if Michele forgot to register her name.
It’s just not right.
Their advisors are fools. You buy EVERY possible domain name as soon as you can.
“I’m open to a Perry candidacy, but gee-whiz, this is a junior league mistake for a guy with $20 million.”
My daughter who is in middle school and ran a successful campaign for class president had the foresight to buy her own domain name and build a site for her campaign.
I’m unclear on what Perry’s mistake was here. (And heaven knows Perry’s made some in this campaign.)
According to betterwhois.com, the site “RickPerry.com” was first registered in 1998. Who did so is not available publicly. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that it wasn’t actually Rick Perry who made that registration.
Is it possible that Rick Perry made the mistake of waiting too long to register the .com? Sure, but we haven’t enough information to conclude that. More likely, IMO, he truly only decided to run for president about 8-10 months ago and, by then, some Paul crank had registered it (or had bought it after some third person registered it).
Well it is Rick Perry afte rall, I wonder if he secured rickforlaraza.com?
Following the comments on thethe Paul site that did this, it looms like they got it from a domain squatter. They are trying to do it to the other candidates too.
“The public is more interested in how the candidates can create jobs and improve the economy, not how many domain names you can rack up,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said. “We’re not running for student body council here. This is for president of the United States.”
But Perry’s opponents and other parties are buying up domains about Perry. In most cases, the addresses have not been put to use and lead to empty Web pages.
In several instances, anti-Perry domains were bought on the same dates that the Romney or Obama campaigns reported making transactions at GoDaddy.com, according to an analysis of online domain-registration records.
On Aug. 15, two days after Perry launched his campaign, Obama’s campaign spent $3,958 at GoDaddy.com. At least 70 domains containing Perry’s name were bought on the same date."...
“But still, there should be some rules regarding public names.”
Nonsense.
Shirley your not on Freerepublic.com, the world’s foremost Conservative web site, advocating for further government over-site?
This was bought by the same sight whose members were responsible for the “have you slept with Perry” ads.
I understand that RickPerryLovesInStateTuitionForIllegalAlliens.com is still available.
Check out Post #27.
Well, there are thousands of men named ‘Rick Perry’ in the US.
Which one would be the rightful owner of this domain name?
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I guess Obama snapped up RickPerryKicksObamaButt.com too.
Rick Perry's Iowa internal polls must have the White House operatives waking up.
Well, there are thousands of men named ‘Rick Perry’ in the US. Which one would be the rightful owner of this domain name?Not a guy named Ron Paul, that's for sure!
But ok, ok... I see there would be a problem trying to enforce something like this.
I take it back.
Bottom line, very, very, very stupid campaign behavior on the part of the Rick Perry people.
Have they even HEARD of the pipes?
Think so?
If not it says a lot, but won’t make one paulnut rethink their rabid support.
Not nonsense. The same rules should apply to domain names that apply to trademarks, that would clear up 90% of the problems.
RickPerry.com was unavailable, because someone several years ago bought the domain name and sat on it (domain squatting) so they could sell it later. You can’t do that with a trademark. You must have an actual product associated with the trademark to get official recognition.
You can’t use the same trademark name for products in the same category. There’s a Dove soap and a Dove chocolate—totally different companies with the same trademark name: Dove. They don’t infringe on each other, because they are in different industries. If Dove chocolates starting making cleaning products, they could NOT use the DOVE name on them, because that would then infringe on the DOVE soap trademark.
The same idea should apply to domain names. If they want to use RickPerry.com as a non-political site (say selling horse manure), that would be fine. But, linking it to a political site should be an infringement on the preexisting use of RickPerry.org for political purposes.
Just adopting a couple of ideas from trademark law would clear up a lot of this mess.
BTY
.com was designed for commercial sites, and .org for organization sites. Using RickPerry.com for an organization is technically a violation, but it’s doubtful anyone would do anything about it.
Perry is scheduled to appear on CNN at 3 PM CST this afternoon.
This was announced yesterday on CNN. I plan to watch....coming up in just a few minutes.
Props to your daughter! I love it.
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