Back in August we wrote about the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com which is has become Donald Trump’s famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run.
At the time we noted that although “The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012, the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th 2015.
The domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com was first registered in 2009 under the domain name registrar 1and1.com, however the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com actually dropped in June 2014 and sat unregistered for a few months until it was registered on October 7, 2014, meaning Donal Trump could have registered the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com for about $10 until October 7th when someone registered the domain name at Godaddy under privacy.”
That someone contacted me last night claiming to be the owner of the domain and answered an email we sent to makeamericagreatagain.com.
The purported owner, Wendy Vantiem commented on our August post saying that the domain was for sale. I asked Ms. Vantiem how much she wanted for the domain name, to which she responded “I was really hoping to get at least $2,000,000. for the domain name.”
Back in August when we wrote about the domain, it had an Alexa Ranking of 13 Million worldwide, however now the Alexa ranking has climbed to 6.5 Million Worldwide with 100% of the traffic coming from people typing in the domain.
2 million? Not going to happen.
I love Trump. Seriously.
He “created” the slogan “Make America Great Again”? Well, maybe Trump never heard about one “Ronald Reagan” who coined as early as the late 70s (published in 1980) the slogan: “Let’s Make America Great Again”!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jt1o_historic-campaign-ads-let-s-make-am_news
http://www.oldpoliticals.com/lot-14763.aspx
So Trump skips the “Let’s” – and claims ownership? Look at his TM 4773272:
“Political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues.”
“Fundraising in the field of politics.”
I am no TM lawyer; but some gut feeling tells me when a former president used the identical mark (preceded by “let’s”) for EXACTLY the same purpose: How can you claim ownership for it just a couple of decades later?
Fishy at minimum – and not a good style in my eyes. But not violating existing rights probably.
There is BTW also a 2015 USPTO TM for “Make America Great Again” for lighters, by Theodorou Phillip from NJ.
Trump tried to trademark “You’re Fired”. that one was denied.
I love Trump. Seriously.
He “created” the slogan “Make America Great Again”? Well, maybe Trump never heard about one “Ronald Reagan” who coined as early as the late 70s (published in 1980) the slogan: “Let’s Make America Great Again”!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jt1o_historic-campaign-ads-let-s-make-am_news
http://www.oldpoliticals.com/lot-14763.aspx
So Trump skips the “Let’s” – and claims ownership? Look at his TM 4773272:
“Political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues.”
“Fundraising in the field of politics.”
I am no TM lawyer; but some gut feeling tells me when a former president used the identical mark (preceded by “let’s”) for EXACTLY the same purpose: How can you claim to have “created intellectual property” for it just a couple of decades later?
Fishy at minimum – and not a good style in my eyes. But not violating existing rights probably.
There is BTW also a 2015 USPTO TM for “Make America Great Again” for lighters, by Theodorou Phillip from NJ.
If .com is sold for 2 MM ? How much would worth its equivalent .tv ??
Selling the Dems fired.com for a tenth of that 🙂
See also the original slogan based .com:
http://www.letsmakeamericagreatagain.com
As mentioned above, the slogan came from Reagan.
I remember Trump suing companies and persons for using his “Apprentice” phrase: “You’re Fired.” He lost and his trademark was denied due to another party owning the trademark. Why didn’t that party sue Trump? Fear? Disinterest?
GreatAgain.com seems like a nice shorter alternative.
Why not $2 million?
I’d ask for more !
Snooze ya loooooose.
Following transient political buzz during campaign season is definitely the secret to getting rich with domains. Who here HASN’T flipped some 4-word, 21-letter, political slogan from $10 to $2,000,000+ in a year’s time?
Perfect.
@Joseph
Funny insight. Guessing the “slogans” of candidates, registering them, and flipping them for $millions. Easy money.
Have people actually made $ flipping domains to politicians, besides the RandPaul.com $100 K score. At least Rand will be able to use the domain for his physician practice, after he drops out of the election.
The asking price for the domain should be more than $2M.