domain BetOnBeto.com and BetOnBeto.org

[robertor]

Beto O'Rourke is an upcoming Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for one of Texas' U.S. Senate seats against incumbent Ted Cruz. He was very much the underdog, but became somewhat sensational because of his surprising popularity in the polls in a deep-red Texas. He ultimately lost by a healthy margin, but much less healthy than anyone would have guessed 2 years ago.

Now that he has lost, there have started to be rumors of a presidential run in 2020. He is very inexperienced (having only been a Representative) in comparison to other potential candidates, thus still going against the odds.

BetOnBeto captures his underdog nature, shows an endorsement of the candidate, and has wordplay with his name. I own both .com and .org, which is solves a problem for politicians who might have one, but users go to the other (for example, tedcruz.org goes to his rightful campaign website, tedcruz.com goes to a website supporting Beto).

#BetOnBeto is established as a somewhat popular campaign hashtag which developed organically. To my knowledge, no official Beto campaign has used this slogan. There is no trademark on the slogan, so the domains were registered prior to any trademark (which might give some standing to avoid them being taken by the campaign - not sure).

I currently forward the domains to tedcruz.org because I think it's funny. I don't know how much traffic it gets.

BetOnBeto.com/org could gamify campaign donations, in that you place a "bet" (contribution) on Beto. It could also be used to build a mailing list, which in turn could be sold to Democratic mailers.

Any additional insight on the process of finding a buyer for a political/campaign entity would be very much appreciated.

 

[Southtexas81]

$0 and $0

 

[robertor]

@Southtexas81 thank you for your reply. Could you provide your reasoning as to why you think they are worthless?

 

[Southtexas81]

Worthless to the public. If you could contact his campaign manager try to sell them to that group. Apparently you have sometime to sell them since now he wants to run for president. He was well hated in Texas so your best bet is to track his people down and sell it to them.

 

[NYJimbo]

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Hi coward. You had to create a new account to post this garbage ?

 

[Southtexas81]

Hi coward. You had to create a new account to post this garbage ?

Hi dick. I'm new today. You must got me confused with your mother.

 

[Southtexas81]

@Southtexas81 thank you for your reply. Could you provide your reasoning as to why you think they are worthless?

That's what I'm doing. I get a domain and I play the salesman to businesses to get them to buy a domain name that will fit well with their business. I don't like to wait for the right guy to come along. I go after them.

 

[robertor]

@Southtexas81 Thanks for being more verbose. I've attempted to contact his campaign, as well as Republican campaigns to see if they were interested in purchasing. This was immediately before the midterms, so I expect they had more important things in mind. I also contacted them on Twitter, which might not be the best method. Would a phone call or email be more effective in your opinion?

I think the main source of value is if Beto's 2020 campaign happens to choose this a campaign slogan, which I admit is a long shot. Then, it might be susceptible to trademark risks. It might be best for me to try to create some sort of site to drum up traffic to help build the domain and increase the likelihood this is chosen as a slogan.

@NYJimbo I noticed he registered today and had only one comment, but he has been more helpful now. I'd personally like this thread not to devolve any further into name calling and get an appraisal