This really interesting news is from Democracy Digest, the National Endowment for Democracy’s daily blog:

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has purchased the domain name Democracy.com “so it wouldn’t be used by someone with a political agenda,” he tells Yahoo Finance. Cuban said he acquired the domain name “to make sure someone didn’t do something crazy with it.”

The New York Times reported that Cuban purchased Democracy.com after receiving an email from entrepreneur Talmage Cooley, the site’s previous owner, who had used it as “a start-up social platform where politicians and civic groups could connect with supporters.”  Cooley told The Times that he emailed Cuban about the auction and the billionaire investor made an offer a few minutes later.

“I just made it super succinct and talked about the importance of this name being used for good,” Cooley said. “I’m glad that somebody in the US bought it, as opposed to a Russian counter-democracy organization.”

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