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The Tea Party Could Make $1 Million Selling Band Website to US Political Movement

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Canadian rockers the Tea Party are looking at a major potential payday thanks to some aggressive campaigning by the American political movement of the same name. The Ontario band are considering hawking their teaparty.com domain name to the right-wing group because the site is understandably racking up a lot of misdirected traffic.

"We've got families," Tea Party bassist Stuart Chatwood told BusinessWeek [via AUX] as to why the group might cash in on the site name, which they've owned since 1993.

"We've considered lending the name to Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart to have them dispel some of the stuff that the Tea Party says," he adds. "As Canadians, we're somewhat sensitive to all the criticism of socialized medicine."

But it seems that the money they could nab from wealthy investors aligned with the Tea Party movement may be more enticing than "lending out" the site since it's not exactly chump change that's on the table. "It's easy to expect teaparty.com to go for well over $1 million," speculated Warren Adelman of the web hosting company GoDaddy.com.

In the meantime, though, the band -- reunited after six years to play a few one-off dates and reportedly tour Australia -- have put up a banner on the site that reads "No politics...Just Rock and Roll." This should hopefully clear up any confusion for those American Tea Party supporters surfing the web and finding only a '90s rock band steeped in Canadian socialism.

Watch the Tea Party Perform 'Sister Awake Live'


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Dashworlds Domains

$1 million? But at sites like Dashworlds.com you can get new Dashcom (not Dotcom) domain names like "teaparty-com" or "tea-party" or even "no-sugar" at zero cost/completely free.

September 21 2011 at 8:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee Ban

hey, why only a million? take those right wing nut jobs to the bank and make them pony up bigtime!

September 17 2011 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee Ban

hey, why only a million??? take those right wing nut jobs to the bank and make them pony up bigtime!

September 17 2011 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee Ban

hey, why only a million??? take those right wing nut jobs to the bank and make them pony up bigtime!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 17 2011 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee Ban

hey, why only a million??? take those right wing nut jobs to the bank and make them pony up bigtime!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 17 2011 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Welcome Vic!

If they're not making enough cash as musicians it's time to get day jobs.

September 17 2011 at 11:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Welcome Vic!

I've loved these guys music for years. It's like Jim Morrison never died but if they sell out to the Tea Party Nazis I'll burn their CDs and never go to another show.

September 17 2011 at 10:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fentex5

They should sell the name to the bastards for BIG BUCKS. Those political imbeciles have already ruined the name for the band.

September 17 2011 at 8:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rlhsn

great song, great sound. Love that Indy sound!

September 17 2011 at 3:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stella Granos

Wouldn't it make more sense for the Tea Party (the extreme and insane political group) to use a site that ends in .gov or .org?

September 17 2011 at 1:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply