We do use purple.com. We understand that those who are not technically inclined nor in the know may not see that. That's ok. We don't think any less of those who don't know our personal business.
For further information on any of these options, please email us.
1. You may lease the single page (entry point) http://www.purple.com/ at the rate of US$5000 per month. We would redirect that one page to the (non-purple) address of your choice. Email addresses at purple are available for US$10 each per month if you are leasing the main entry point.
2. You may lease sub-domains of purple (other than www) for US$1000 per month. You must host your own content: we merely point DNS at the IP of your choice. For US$100 per month additional you may handle all email to your sub-domain of purple. Individual email addresses at purple or at your sub-domain are available for US$10 each per month.
3. You may license all of purple.com, giving you the right to put all of your content at www.purple.com, including hosting the site itself. You would be required to maintain forwarding on certain email addresses and redirects on a small number of URL's, but none with names that should cause problems. The cost of licensing the entire site is a one-time fee of US$750,000 plus a monthly maintenance fee of $100 which may be paid in advance annually.
4. You may have an address at friends.purple.com for US$50 per month. The address is licensed to you as long as you keep paying. You may do anything you want with it except represent yourself as having a relationship with purple.com other than leasing the address or addresses you lease. You may not do anything that gets us in legal trouble, and you may not use it as a spam return address. We would forward that address to the address of your choice: we would not offer actual storage.
Q. Why is this so expensive?
A. To make my life simple.
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Q. This is too expensive! Won't you bring the price down?
A. The price is not negotiable. Everyone has different ideas of expensive. If you feel this is too expensive, you are welcome to find a less expensive domain name.
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Q. What restrictions would I have on what I can do with my sub-domain of purple?
A. We impose no restrictions, except that it must be legal, must not get us in legal problems, can't be for purposes of spamming, etc.
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Q. Can I have an email address without paying all those fees?
A. No. That wouldn't be simple. (It doesn't scale.)
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Q. Why is http://www.purple.com/ nearly all purple? Why does it link to a purple page?
A. It makes my life simple.
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Q. Isn't there more?
A. No.
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Q. I don't want to lease, I want to buy!
A: Leasing is a fairly standard business structure. In most
contexts you can achieve most of the rights you'd like from purchase
via lease, although you often have to enumerate what you want. If you
really feel that leasing purple.com doesn't work for you and you don't
have a credible argument for why, understand that I will wonder what
you are up to.
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