Purple.com - What is up with this site?

[Skinny]

Purple.com 4 up, 3 down

A seemingly random website which contains a single link for FAQs. If you dont click it fast enough, the link goes away and you are left with a purple page. What is the use for this page? That is for you to find out. There is seemingly a squirrel somewhere on the page. Or is there? See, the mystery of Purple.com may never be known.

"I went to purple.com and i was confused. what the hell?"

Seriously what is the point of sitting on a beautiful domain, not monetizing it or anything and just putting purple on it.

So wierd.

Any one know why??

He even has a Purple Affinity Program.

http://www.purple.com/affinity/index.html

Skinny

 

[Luc]

that guy is insane i think, maybe from starring at the purple page for the past 12 years. i made him an offer, as did a few others and he's looking to LEASE it for high 6 figures PER MONTH, and not selling for under 8 figures. dream on, dumbass...

 

[domaindigger]

He's an arrogant idiot with no business acumen whatsoever.

No need to wish him to fail, he's already done that all by himself.

http://www.purple.com/availability.html

:D

 

[Archangel]

Some questions and their answers

Q. Why is this so expensive?

A. To make my life simple.

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Q. This is too expensive! Won't you bring the price down?

A. The price is not negotiable. Everyone has different ideas of expensive. If you feel this is too expensive, you are welcome to find a less expensive domain name.

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Q. What restrictions would I have on what I can do with my sub-domain of purple?

A. We impose no restrictions, except that it must be legal, must not get us in legal problems, can't be for purposes of spamming, etc.

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Q. Can I have an email address without paying all those fees?

A. No. That wouldn't be simple. (It doesn't scale.)

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Q. Why is http://www.purple.com/ nearly all purple? Why does it link to a purple page?

A. It makes my life simple.

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Q. Isn't there more?

A. No.

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Q. I don't want to lease, I want to buy!
A: Leasing is a fairly standard business structure. In most contexts you can achieve most of the rights you'd like from purchase via lease, although you often have to enumerate what you want. If you really feel that leasing purple.com doesn't work for you and you don't have a credible argument for why, understand that I will wonder what you are up to.



This guy is a drop-dead f*cking idiot. Why do I say that? It makes my life simple.

 

[cache]

you never know, he may be able to sell his names for very high price.

 

[Archangel]

you never know, he may be able to sell his names for very high price.

But he's not interested in selling. He wants to lease. Can anyone post ONE sub domain for purple.com in this thread? If you can, could you also give me the name of the idiot paying $x,xxx/month for it?

 

[Seabass]

"Purple Pill" ! Maybe he's holding out for Nexium - "Purple Pill"

Anyone here ever have heartburn? PurplePill.com

Maybe, also, each email offer he gets for it he thinks you are a broker or something for Nexium, or is just holding out for thier "BIG" offer.

Brown.com sold for $500,000, right. Blue.com, what was it? - $400,000. So start at $10,000,000 and settle on $2 million. I think that may be his strategy on that domain. I peg him as an strict investor.

It shows in the Whois in the second "Creation Date" shown down lower in the actual whois info. that it was created in 2003, whereas the first one up top says 1994. Maybe he bought it for a gamble on a resale to Nexium, and if not, hell, it's a great domain to have.

I bet that domain get a whole boat load of folks looking for the Purple Pill - probably more than Nexium's PurplePill.com site gets.

That traffic is extremely valuable - he just can't monetize it without getting his ass sued. From what I have read, trademark law provides 3 X damages on what you make. So, if he makes $100,000 on PPC selling the Nexium, then he would probably have to pay back $300,000 plus lawyer fees if they chose to chase him down on it. And, it would begin to be worth it at those numbers.

Usually, these things that don't make sense like "Purple.com" is b/c we don't have the info. they do. I may be wrong, but I think this is what the fuss is about from his end. He wants some of Nexium's money.

 

[Archangel]

"Purple Pill" ! Maybe he's holding out for Nexium - "Purple Pill"

Anyone here ever have heartburn? PurplePill.com

Maybe, also, each email offer he gets for it he thinks you are a broker or something for Nexium, or is just holding out for thier "BIG" offer.

Brown.com sold for $500,000, right. Blue.com, what was it? - $400,000. So start at $10,000,000 and settle on $2 million. I think that may be his strategy on that domain. I peg him as an strict investor.

It shows in the Whois in the second "Creation Date" shown down lower in the actual whois info. that it was created in 2003, whereas the first one up top says 1994. Maybe he bought it for a gamble on a resale to Nexium, and if not, hell, it's a great domain to have.

I bet that domain get a whole boat load of folks looking for the Purple Pill - probably more than Nexium's PurplePill.com site gets.

That traffic is extremely valuable - he just can't monetize it without getting his ass sued. From what I have read, trademark law provides 3 X damages on what you make. So, if he makes $100,000 on PPC selling the Nexium, then he would probably have to pay back $300,000 plus lawyer fees if they chose to chase him down on it. And, it would begin to be worth it at those numbers.

Usually, these things that don't make sense like "Purple.com" is b/c we don't have the info. they do. I may be wrong, but I think this is what the fuss is about from his end. He wants some of Nexium's money.

I use Nexium lol I have for severeal years now. "Healing pill" my ass.

'purple' is a generic word. I'm really not sure if a C&D or a lawsuit would ever hit him if he tried selling Nexium with it. I could be wrong but it doesn't look justified to me. Is there a TM on 'purple'? It's a generic word.

 

[zzzw]

What ? Why are you worried ? Maybe it's my domain. Guy does what he wants and is not asking for your permission or evaluation. He can ask a million per month for renting.

 

[greggish]

What ? Why are you worried ? Maybe it's my domain. Guy does what he wants and is not asking for your permission or evaluation. He can ask a million per month for renting.

I don't know. I don't see anything wrong with marvelling at the stupidity of others. It's certainly more fun than contemplating your own.

 

[Archangel]

What ? Why are you worried ? Maybe it's my domain. Guy does what he wants and is not asking for your permission or evaluation. He can ask a million per month for renting.

Yep -- he'd have full right to sell a grain of sand for a billion dollars if he wanted to but good luck trying to find a rich sand-grain buyer.

 

[accent]

Purple is good.
Purple is the highest wavelength.
It is good that Purple should be the most valuable color.
If Nexium wants to lease Purple, the door is open.
But he is keeping Purple, Because Purple is Good.


Not everything must make business sense.
But Purple does make business sense.
Long term investments should not be sold short.

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[greggish]

Purple is good.
Purple is the highest wavelength.
It is good that Purple should be the most valuable color.
If Nexium wants to lease Purple, the door is open.
But he is keeping Purple, Because Purple is Good.


Not everything must make business sense.
But Purple does make business sense.
Long term investments should not be sold short.

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Hehe. Are you a Ken Nordine fan?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pJM39EytAYU

 

[Skinny]

Meh. Just wierd. You can get all or most pages indexed by Google here (most stuff not accessed by the site).

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site:purple.com&meta=

What ? Why are you worried ? Maybe it's my domain. Guy does what he wants and is not asking for your permission or evaluation. He can ask a million per month for renting.

I don't really care. It's just funny what people do sometimes.

Skinny

 

[dnb8]

http://www.purple.com/GR20/s/53f55e7f9c4eae438129085a337ea479a497b9cd.html,

on photo: domain owner and his boyfriend

 

[Archangel]

http://www.purple.com/GR20/s/53f55e7f9c4eae438129085a337ea479a497b9cd.html,

on photo: domain owner and his boyfriend

Heh... purple.
Unintentionally stereotypical, don't you say? lol

 

[faisj]

He is doing this for the media attention...
... as you can see it is working!


(...increase traffic and wait for 5 years and then sell the domain..)

 

[DropLister]

he and germany.com are keeping it real.

 

[VURG]

I like the site.

I don't understand the point in complaining about what somebody else does with his property.

It's a lot more interesting than most PPC landing pages.

 

[namewaiter]

He is doing this for the media attention...
... as you can see it is working!


(...increase traffic and wait for 5 years and then sell the domain..)

exactly