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Owner of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com Wants “$2 Million At Least”

December 30, 2015 by Michael Berkens

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.

 

Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domains, Internet News Tagged With: domain name, domain names, domain registrations, Domains, donald trump, make america great again, makeamericagreatagain.com, presidental election, trump, trump 2016, Trump for president

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Ben says

    December 30, 2015 at 8:41 am

    2 million? Not going to happen.

    • Alexander Schubert says

      December 30, 2015 at 9:02 am

      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.

      • RaTHeaD says

        December 30, 2015 at 10:34 am

        Trump tried to trademark “You’re Fired”. that one was denied.

    • Alexander Schubert says

      December 30, 2015 at 9:03 am

      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.

    • JStH says

      January 20, 2017 at 4:26 pm

      If .com is sold for 2 MM ? How much would worth its equivalent .tv ??

  2. Robert says

    December 30, 2015 at 8:55 am

    Selling the Dems fired.com for a tenth of that 🙂

  3. Alexander Schubert says

    December 30, 2015 at 9:05 am

    See also the original slogan based .com:

    http://www.letsmakeamericagreatagain.com

  4. Steve says

    December 30, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    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?

  5. Grant says

    December 30, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    GreatAgain.com seems like a nice shorter alternative.

  6. Bradleigh says

    December 30, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Why not $2 million?
    I’d ask for more !

    Snooze ya loooooose.

  7. Joseph Peterson says

    December 30, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    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?

    • John says

      December 30, 2015 at 3:41 pm

      Perfect.

  8. Steve says

    December 30, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @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.

  9. SoFreeDomains says

    December 31, 2015 at 2:27 am

    The asking price for the domain should be more than $2M.


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