WhiteHouse.com is BACK!!! And it's not porn....

[creme]

but it is controversial!

http://www.WhiteHouse.com

 

[peterstannard]

Damn some people are so easily offended!

 

[maximum]

exactly ... remember reading a news bit this morning where a muslim cleric was bemoaning " ... harm to property and persons does not go with the peaceful ways of Islam..."

yeah, since when has peace=Islam exactly

A bit off the subject, but I had to reply. As an American, I find such a commet scary. As a Christian, I find it heartless. And, as a human being, I find it offensive. When you start believing any race, or in this case religion, is not, as a whole, peacefull, based off the actions of a group of fanaticals (even called "extremists" by other Muslims, mind you), you should take a look at the history of your own race or religion (whatever those may be). There is not a race, or religion, that didn't (or doesn't now) have a few fanaticals in it. If you do take that long-and-hard look, and it doesn't upset or scare you (to some degree, anyway), might I suggest seeking professional or religious counceling.

 

[DN Tycoon]

A bit off the subject, but I had to reply. As an American, I find such a commet scary. As a Christian, I find it heartless. And, as a human being, I find it offensive. When you start believing any race, or in this case religion, is not, as a whole, peacefull, based off the actions of a group of fanaticals (even called "extremists" by other Muslims, mind you), you should take a look at the history of your own race or religion (whatever those may be). There is not a race, or religion, that didn't (or doesn't now) have a few fanaticals in it. If you do take that long-and-hard look, and it doesn't upset or scare you (to some degree, anyway), might I suggest seeking professional or religious counceling.

I think the big thing here is that the Muslim faith in a whole are not standing up and denouncing these types of acts and therefore some people are associating their religion with terrorists and radicals. When people of the Muslim faith start beheading people, killing people, burning building and flags all in the name of Allah and then the true people of the Muslim faith just sit back and do nothing while these radicals make the religion look bad in the eyes of the world. Imagine that these where Catholic radicals, how long would it take the Pope to come out and denounce these acts...not very long.

Another side to this that makes the Muslim faith look bad is that Islamic countries are joining in this digracing display of ignorance. It seems the countries that have joined in do not mind their newspapers printing cartoons of little jewish kids getting their heads cut off or depicting anothers religion in a silly way but when someone does the same all hell breaks loose. I do not believe that the Muslim religion as a whole is like this but in our world today for those who do not know the Muslim faith they could easily associate these radicals and their acts as the normal way of most every Muslim in the world.

 

[mojojo]

where are the adds???

A great name with no revenue...who is the owner?

 

[creme]

Ads? At this time the owner doesn't want to put ads on it. Doing so would distract from the message: FREE Speech.

It sould be up Monday at the latest

 

[creme]

it's back up!

 

[fonzie_007]

Interesting site. The analysis on the homepage now, while over-simplified and somewhat flawed, certainly has some truth to it.

 

[.biz]

...He turned down all offers (even though they were in the several million dollar range) because all offers came through a broker.....s and was awarded an Internet Ethics Hero Award. .

what??? you must be kidding... a long time porn king deserves that title?

the millions dollars offers are all BS.

 

[creme]

what part must I be kidding about? You mean to tell me the whitehouse.com name isn't powerful. One lobbyist in Washington might spend MIILIONS of dollars a year influencing votes and there a more lobbyists in D.C than politicians. Don't you think it would be a pretty good domain name to own to further you agenda? Certainly worth millions of dollars..................................................................................................................................and think about this: The Democratic and Republican National commities have Tens of millioons of dollars. The RNC currently has 50+ MILLION in the bank and spent 200 MILLION during the last election. Would it not be worth a few million dollars to OWN the name WhiteHouse.com. That's a couple of national commercials to them. Think about it, even if a Democrat was in office, everytime someone went to WhiteHouse.com (which hs nearly 3X the overture #'s as whitehouse.gov) They'd be able to have their veiws posted. And they'd own it for the rest of forever as long as they paid the reg fee. A few Mill? Sounds like a no brainer. Hell, they must spend that much on paper clips.

 

[RareIQ]

well.........

 

[creme]

http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/heroes/0405_parisi.html

 

[.biz]

what part must I be kidding about? You mean to tell me the whitehouse.com name isn't powerful. One lobbyist in Washington might spend MIILIONS of dollars a year influencing votes and there a more lobbyists in D.C than politicians. Don't you think it would be a pretty good domain name to own to further you agenda? Certainly worth millions of dollars..................................................................................................................................and think about this: The Democratic and Republican National commities have Tens of millioons of dollars. The RNC currently has 50+ MILLION in the bank and spent 200 MILLION during the last election. Would it not be worth a few million dollars to OWN the name WhiteHouse.com. That's a couple of national commercials to them. Think about it, even if a Democrat was in office, everytime someone went to WhiteHouse.com (which hs nearly 3X the overture #'s as whitehouse.gov) They'd be able to have their veiws posted. And they'd own it for the rest of forever as long as they paid the reg fee. A few Mill? Sounds like a no brainer. Hell, they must spend that much on paper clips.

If using the same logic, why don't CitiGroup by bank.com, banks.com. why don't Coca-Cola buy drink.com, softdrink.com, and so on? They spend hundreds of million dollars every year for advertising...

I don't believe he refused $2 millions for this name.

http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/heroes/0405_parisi.html

This article means nothing. First, nobody can confirm what Dan said so he can say just anything under the sun. Second, the website is nont a trustable source, unless it is CNN, BCC, etc.

 

[creme]

That's a flawed comparison. Although Bonk of America does own loans.com, those are national companies that have a product, have competitors, have stocks and shareholders, and a board of directors. They need to sell their prduct based on name recognition. Branding is very important. The name WhiteHouse.com is very unique - it's ingrained in the public conciense. It's NOT a generic name like Bank.com or Softdrink.com, this is a very specific name with a lot of cache. He was able to get it before anyone realised they should reg it. Let's put it like this: It's as if Coke and Pepsi each did millions and millions of dollars a year in advertising and then allowed him to register Coke.com and Pepsi.com while they registered SoftDrink.com (which has no brand awarness). WhiteHouse already has all the brand awareness anyone could ever hope for.

As for turning down the 2 mill. Noone's ever going to come out and say "Hey that was me he didn't sell to." The measily 2 million dollar offers were made in '04. Domain names were selling for crap then. I don't think any resonable human being would think WhiteHouse.com isn't worth as much as Fish.com (which sold recently for 2 mill.)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/10/whitehouse.com.ap/index.html

 

[staskul]

Thanks for the link!

 

[gazzip]

Thanks for the tip/link, creme. I wonder how many type-in hits whitehouse.com gets??

According to overture it gets 33,020 a month for whitehouse.com WITH EXTENSION - Wow !

 

[creme]

'White House' About-Face

Dan Parisi , president of Whitehouse.com, the former porn site that became a financial services site, writes to say he's taking the site in a new direction.

"Real estate or finance does not seem to work on Whitehouse.com," he said, "as it gains no traction. It seems that people" visiting the site "only care about porn," Parisi said, "and I do not want to do porn again."

"So we are going with [a] political site," he said, with blogs, cartoon contests and such.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021201079.html