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# Re: Should we grab accuvote.com?

- To: Guy Lancaster <glanca@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: Re: Should we grab accuvote.com?
- From: "Mickey G. Martin" <mmglobal@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:39:52 -0600
- CC: Sales Talk <salestalk@dieboldes.com>
- References: <385A6655.E454057F@dieboldes.com>

    Guy

    I agree with you on this. We should grab both of these domains ASAP!

    M2

    Guy Lancaster wrote:

    > [I just joined this list and I see that I'm one of the last.  Hello
    > everybody.]
    >
    >   Having joined joined Lorrie Cranor's mailing list a couple weeks ago
    > (http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/voting/), I see that Internet
    > voting is a hot topic these days.  There are a lot of people out there
    > that believe that anything that makes it easier to vote is a good
    > thing.  There are also many people that have reasons to believe that
    > it's still a little premature and that we should hold back and really
    > think through the ramifications before jumping in.  I belong to the
    > latter crowd.
    >
    >   However, as a company, we must be sensative to market demands and
    > perceptions.  Already we have competitors that will be able to point
    > to us and say that we can't do this (http://www.votehere.net/ or
    > http://registerhere.net/ and http://www.votation.com/) and arguing
    > that the infrastructure isn't ready yet just won't hold water.  The
    > truth would seem to be that we don't have a plan (am I wrong?)  I
    > suspect that everyone agrees that Internet and equivalent voting
    > technologies are the wave of the future so it's just a matter of time
    > before we'll have to climb on board.
    >
    >   That said, I think we should consider registering the accuvote.com
    > domain and probably accu-vote.com while we're at it.  I just checked
    > and they're still available.  I don't believe that we have trademarked
    > the term Accu-Vote (I could be wrong), but even it we did it's an
    > expensive and time consuming process to get the domain back if someone
    > else has registered it first.  For now we would just point these
    > domains to our current servers and they'd get one of our current Web
    > sites.  In the future, accuvote.com would be easier to market as an
    > Internet voting site than globalelection.com or dieboldes.com.
    >
    >   Registering a domain is simple and costs only US$35 per year or less
    > (it's just opened to competition).  If we don't want accuvote.com as a
    > company, maybe I'll grab it myself.  It could be worth serious money
    > in a couple years...
    >
    >             Guy
    > ---
    > Stirring the pot can be so much fun!

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