About lp-discuss.org
This is NOT an official site of the Libertarian Party.
It was created by Susan Hogarth, and all inquires about it should be directed to her at [email protected].This site exists to discuss the content on the LP.org website. The general form is that an article/press release/blog entry from LP.org will be reposted here as a story, and open discussion of its merits and ways of improving it will follow in the comments.
Although we are already doing this at IPR and other sites, this one is specifically focused on the Libertarian Party.
Susan,
This will do wonders for your chances of being elected to the LNC as Angela Keaton’s replacement.
George
Susan’s site is an organization? hm no
@1 It is not a bad domain choice. Political parties and other organisations should use .org. That’s what it exists for. Very young people may not know about the top level domain system, but it exists for good reasons.
And, frankly, people who cannot find lp.org because they are too stupid to search for what they seek rather than typing in random domain names, or too stupid to think past .com for a domain name, are unlikely to be interested in blogging about lp.org.
Frankly, there’s nothing commercial about lp-discuss.org so it is right as a .org.
Also, every sentence that occurs in your mind to post here is not necessarily worth posting. You might try reflecting for a full minute before hitting “submit.” Chances are there was something relevant you could have said on some other thread, instead.
But it’s definitely owned by someone.
Yes – as far I can tell, someone registered it in 1994 for a period of 20 years. I may be misinterpreting it though.
I do believe I’ve read that more recently, new rules have been put in place prohibiting the creation of two-letter .coms — but I don’t know if existing ones can still be bought. I imagine it would be expensive, even if they could be.
It doesn’t have to be a .org to be a site about the lp. but ok heh
LJ, Paulie,
I suspect we’re talking about different things.
Paulie:
For some reason I thought I remembered the LP had owned lp.com, but apparently it does not:
http://whois.domaintools.com/lp.com
But it’s definitely owned by someone.
LJ:
I chose .org because I am trying to create a site that reflects on lp.org, not lp.com.
ha a two letter .com would be worth an obscene amount of money.
I think you can’t get two-letter domains, at least at US based top level domains, anymore, so LP.com is longer possible.
I didn’t thnk you registered it. yeah, you should definitely redirect that. Most people think .com when they’re trying to type a site in. I make that .com mistake to some sites
It’s supposed to be a companion to lp.org.
However, now that I check lp.com (which I think should redirect to lp.org), I get a 403 ‘forbidden’ error. Somehting for the LP webfolks to work on.
Bad domain choice. Why not the .com? *rolls eyes*