There aren’t many Capitol Hill URLs left in the world. But a man named Paul Davis has one that he’s looking for somebody to put to good use. Davis said he owns CapHill.org and is looking for somebody interested in taking it off his hands. He tells CHS he is looking to either sell the domain or donate it to federal nonprofit. “I bought it for a church that I no longer attend. I think it has substantial value,” Davis tells CHS.
CHS isn’t interested in this particular .org but would gladly take capitolhillseattle.org. That domain is owned by a secret registrant and the address is currently unused. CHS came to live at capitolhillseattle.com when the Capitol Hill Community Council let the registration on the domain lapse. The Council’s ownership of the domain, by the way, was news to us — we were just looking for a straightforward, obvious domain and couldn’t think of anything smart like captothehill.com. The Council now lives at capitolhillcommunitycouncil.org. Here’s what capitolhillseattle.com used to look like back in its community council days.
Other primo Capi Hill domains like CapitolHill.com are owned by somebody looking to make a buck off the registration usually with Washginton D.C. in mind. Also, take note Seattle PI: the nomenclature you used on your Queen Anne neighborhood blog experiment won’t work here — inCapitolHill.com is owned by a guy in Florida who wants thousands of dollars for it. Want to go halvesies?
Want CapHill.org for your organization or an excellent Capitol Hill purpose? You can find Davis’s contact info on the public records information for the domain.
I own capitolhillseattle.org. Use of my registrar’s private registration is just an attempt to avoid spam and junk mail,. I’m open to suggestions for uses of it, though I’m not crazy about the idea of transferring it to another party. I’ve tossed around ideas for various community-related subdomains, but haven’t firmed anything up.
In related news, capitolhillchamber.org is still registered to someone who was involved with the previous Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, with inaccurate WHOIS information. We (the Chamber) would like to have that domain, since our entire name is in it, but after an unsuccessful attempt to convince the current registrant to transfer it to us, settled for caphillchamber.org instead of initiating an ICANN dispute for the other one.
I would be happy to sell or donate capitolhill.net and capitol-hill.com to deserving organizations!
Charlie