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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Props to your daughter! I love it.
Rumor has it that SnivelingTrollsForObama.com is still available.
You better snap it up while you can.
I agree with you, but what evidence do we have that “RickPerry.com” remained available(*) by the time Perry was remotely considering a run for higher office?
*— I will say, however, that they should have taken action with ICANN promptly upon finding out that the site was being squatted.
Yes, but I also saw that the TrumandogzthePerryThreadsObsessively.com domain is still available, you might want to grab that.
Probably one of Ron Pauls nerdy fanatics. Didn’t serve Ron Paul well.
If the current governor of Texas was the only person with the name Rick Perry in the country, you might have a point, but people’s names are note trademarked.
I do believe him.
Paul supporters use tactics just like all of their fellow liberals and this is their work, I'm sure.
While I'm no fan of Ron Paul, I don't think his campaign would stoop this low.
Sure, there are other people named Rick Perry, but is the person that own's RickPerry.com named Rick Perry; does the site have anything to do with any Rick Perry?
Even a name isn't unlimited. Even if my legal name was "Jimmy Dean", I couldn't start selling "Jimmy Dean's Sausage" in grocery stores, because it would infringe (by way of causing confusion) on the existing brand of "Jimmy Dean's Sausage".
The overriding priciple (as I recall from my college days) is that a trademark cannot cause confusion with another existing trademark. Which brings us to the Ron Paul site RickPerry.com. The obvious purpose of the site is to cause confusion in people's minds.
If the site was owned by a Cleveland city councelman named Rick Perry and he was using it to promote his run for mayor, there wouldn't be any infringement because (1) his name is Rick Perry, and (2) he is presenting info about himself, not the governor of Texas.
Figures.
I wonder what their FR handles are? ;-)
Why do you believe that members of the political class should have special protections?
What if there is some guy from Texas named Rick Perry who wants to start selling Whole Lfe Insurance in the next couple of years, can he use rickperry.com?
LOL! Very appropriate domain names.
“You shouldn’t be able to direct www.michelebachmann.com to a porn site, even if Michele forgot to register her name.”
Do you wish to only extend these domain name protections to politicians?
“What if there is some guy from Texas named Rick Perry who wants to start selling Whole Lfe Insurance in the next couple of years, can he use rickperry.com?”
Sure he can—to sell life insurance, but not to imply that he is somehow associated with Gov. Rick Perry.
And, I’m not advocating any special protection for politicians. If a guy in Waco, Texas is named Peyton Manning, should he be able to set up a site called peytonmanning.com sell “Colts jerseys signed by Peyton Manning” on the site?
He could buy the jerseys just like anyone else, and they are signed by “Peyton Manning”, right? So, he’s not really defrauding anyone, right? Wrong—he is defrauding people by not making it clear which Peyton Manning is signing. A lie of omission is still a lie.
More than anything this is an example of Rick Perry’s ineptitude in his ability to secure or retain a domain name.
If Rick Perry can not secure his own internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?
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