RenewAmerica.com 'URL auction' update- -Day 1!
RenewAmerica staff
The private auction for the domain name RenewAmerica.com started Tuesday, June 2, at noon. There are 34 bidders interested in acquiring this valuable URL, including us at RenewAmerica. (Under auction rules, no more bidders can join.)
Most of the bidders appear to be "speculators" who shop for desirable URLs that they can turn around and sell at a profit. Usually, such bidders are not willing to pay the top price at auction.
On the other hand, it looks like there's at least one bidder who is not a speculator and who seriously wants the RenewAmerica.com URL to expand their operation. In other words, they have the same motivation as us.
This bidder — who is registered at the auction under the name RenewCanada — could possibly be either a publisher who maintains a Canadian website, or another Canadian organization that sells energy-related products and would have reason to expand into the U.S.
We can't be sure, but our internet research brought up these two possibilities. Right now, RenewCanada is the top bidder at the auction.
Because we have at least one very serious competitor, we thought we should let you know that the competition for RenewAmerica.com may be stiff and well-funded — more so than we were hoping.
If you've already donated to our auction fund, please consider making another contribution. Every dollar may count going down to the wire.
If you're considering making a donation, but haven't yet done so, please be generous with your contribution.
To donate, go to www.renewamerica.com/donate.php
It's vital to us at RA that we obtain this very desirable URL — which will greatly improve our ability to inform, assist, and influence grassroots Americans in the cause of taking back our country.
Thanks so much, and may God bless you for your generosity.
Stephen Stone
President and Editor, RenewAmerica
June 2, 2009
The private auction for the domain name RenewAmerica.com started Tuesday, June 2, at noon. There are 34 bidders interested in acquiring this valuable URL, including us at RenewAmerica. (Under auction rules, no more bidders can join.)Most of the bidders appear to be "speculators" who shop for desirable URLs that they can turn around and sell at a profit. Usually, such bidders are not willing to pay the top price at auction.
On the other hand, it looks like there's at least one bidder who is not a speculator and who seriously wants the RenewAmerica.com URL to expand their operation. In other words, they have the same motivation as us.
This bidder — who is registered at the auction under the name RenewCanada — could possibly be either a publisher who maintains a Canadian website, or another Canadian organization that sells energy-related products and would have reason to expand into the U.S.
We can't be sure, but our internet research brought up these two possibilities. Right now, RenewCanada is the top bidder at the auction.
Because we have at least one very serious competitor, we thought we should let you know that the competition for RenewAmerica.com may be stiff and well-funded — more so than we were hoping.
If you've already donated to our auction fund, please consider making another contribution. Every dollar may count going down to the wire.
If you're considering making a donation, but haven't yet done so, please be generous with your contribution.
To donate, go to www.renewamerica.com/donate.php
It's vital to us at RA that we obtain this very desirable URL — which will greatly improve our ability to inform, assist, and influence grassroots Americans in the cause of taking back our country.
Thanks so much, and may God bless you for your generosity.
Stephen Stone
President and Editor, RenewAmerica
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