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Posted on 02/11/2013 3:32:14 PM PST by ksen
Earlier today, Ron Paul filed an international UDRP complaint against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org with WIPO, a global governing body that is an agency of the United Nations. The complaint calls on the agency to expropriate the two domain names from his supporters without compensation and hand them over to Ron Paul.
On May 1st, 2008 we launched a grassroots website at RonPaul.com that became one of the most popular resources dedicated exclusively to Ron Paul and his ideas. Like thousands of fellow Ron Paul supporters, we put our lives on hold and invested 5 years of hard work into Ron Paul, RonPaul.com and Ron Paul 2012. Looking back, we are very happy with what we were able to achieve with unlimited enthusiasm and limited financial resources.
Last month, after Ron Paul expressed regret on the Alex Jones show over not owning RonPaul.com (in an interview titled “Ron Paul: The Internet Is Our Last Chance to Awaken America“), dozens of supporters urged us to contact Ron Paul to work out a deal.
We sent Ron Paul the following respectful offer [View/Download PDF File], explaining that we’d prefer to keep RonPaul.com due to reasons explained in our letter.
At the same time we offered him RonPaul.org as a free gift so we could keep using RonPaul.com and he wouldn’t have to use something like RonPaulsHomePage.com.
Our offer went on to explain that in case Ron Paul insisted on obtaining RonPaul.com, we would prepare a complete liberty package consisting of RonPaul.com and our mailing list of 170,000 liberty lovers.
The value we put on the deal was $250k; we are getting our mailing list appraised right now but we are confident it is easily worth more than $250k all by itself. Claims that we tried to sell Ron Paul “his name” for $250k or even $800k are completely untrue, and there is little doubt that our mailing list would have enabled Ron Paul to raise several million dollars for the liberty movement this year. It would have been a win/win/win situation for everyone involved.
Instead of responding to our offer, making a counter offer, or even accepting our FREE gift of RonPaul.org, Ron Paul went to the United Nations and is trying to use its legal process related to domain name disputes to actively deport us from our domain names without compensation.
Below is a copy of Ron Paul’s complaint and our original offer to Ron Paul. We have 20 days to prepare a response and we are tentatively looking for a lawyer to represent us in this case.
Hopefully it won’t have to come to that!
What in the world is going on? Earlier this week we were hit in the face by Ron Paul’s entirely out-of-character anti-Chris Kyle tweet, and now Ron Paul, the Internet grassroots candidate, who was at the right place at the right time to lead the rEVOLution, attacks his own grassroots supporters through an agency of the United Nations to deport them from their own domain names after 5 years of nothing but unlimited, unconditional support on our part?
Back in 2007 we put our lives on hold for you, Ron, and we invested close to 10,000 hours of tears, sweat and hard work into this site at great personal sacrifice. We helped raise millions of dollars for you, we spread your message of liberty as far and wide as we possibly could, and we went out of our way to defend you against the unjustified attacks by your opponents. Now that your campaigns are over and you no longer need us, you want to take it all away – and send us off to a UN tribunal?
That’s not cool! We want our old pre-retirement Ron Paul back!
Guess old Ron needs some new tinfoil and a spiffy new deck to go along with it.
Maybe a few extra bucks for some spin-folks to keep his kook son in
“conservative” soundbites, no matter what a loon he may actually be.
UN is where these complaints go now.
HAHAHAHAHA. No, that’s not enough laughter. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Who would not have seen something like this coming from a Lil’ Martian?????
Is this a joke?
If its true what a dweeb Ron Paul is - hahahahahahahah
Oh my goodness. A long detailed article on ron paul. guess I should read it all b4 commenting. Uh... no, I’m good. RP whacko.
I still can’t figure out why people supported him. He is beyond bat shiite crazy.
This isn’t new; it happens every day.
Domain name squatting is big business.
I don’t know what you mean by squatting, if they lawfully purchased the domain names then Ron Crazy Paul doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on.
Yes Ron Paul is an absolute loon, but even here on FR there are quite a few paulbots. It's like a cult. Most are probably laying low right now after Ron Paul tweeted that awful comment about Chris Kyle (the American hero sniper) the other day. Once some time passes and they think people have forgotten his latest insane statement, the paultards will be back yammering about how wonderful "Dr. Paul" is.
Gee, the Paultards are finding out ol’ Wrong Paul really is the nutburger other people always pointed him out to be.
It’s not hard.
Most of his supporters that I know are pro drugs, pro abortion, and anti tax.
Pretty much social liberals that don’t want to pay taxes.
It really is that simple for the majority of his flock.
There’s no question about it. Ron Paul definitely has a “leg to stand on” with this. I’m not his supporter at all, but I do know he’s got an excellent chance of getting that domain. Just read up on the process and you’ll find out.
You are completely mistaken.
The names will be handed over to him, that is the law.
This stuff goes on constantly. There are courts that deal only with this issue. The UN only gets involved when it is a multinational complaint. Domain names get handed to their proper owners constantly.
I don’t doubt that he’ll get the domain name. But I STRONGLY object to anyone, especially somebody like him, grabbing somebody else’s property, and appealing to the UN no less!
As usual, you’re way out in looney land.
Domain name squatting has been going on for 25 years or more.
Most of the people that are claiming to be Ron Paul supporters are substantially in disagreement with him on numerous political issues.
Who gave the UN the power to expropriate anything?
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