delete - meant to post under another thread

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/03/gwb43-white-house-vote-theft-and-email.html

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Here (with a hat tip to Jackstraw45 of DU) is the WHOIS info on GWB43:

Domain Name: GWB43.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Republican National Committee [e-mail]
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
999 999 9999 fax: [phone]

Record expires on 16-Jan-2008.
Record created on 16-Jan-2004.
Database last updated on 21-Mar-2007 17:45:46 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.CHA.SMARTECHCORP.NET
A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET

"Trespassers-W.net"? Odd name, that.

We learn that this same Tennessee-based hosting service -- Smartech -- played a mysterious role in the 2004 election in Ohio. From a November 7, 2006 story by luaptifer at Daily Kos:

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oops i meant to post this in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1705725

[seafan]

1. This may be correct. There was much discussion about this company when the parallel e-mail system

emerged early this year.

Should be quite a few archived threads on this.


On edit, here is more from your link:

SMARTECHCORP refers to a hosting service named Smartech, also located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their web page is here. They offer internet hosting, streaming media and so forth.

In 2000, Smartech merged with a company called NextLec, a telecommunications firm owned by the remarkable Mercer Reynolds, President Bush's close friend and controversial campaign fundraiser. Reynolds, who raised a record amount during the 2004 campaign, has been accused of selling access to the President.

The name Smartech appeared in stories arising out of the disputed 2004 election in Ohio. From a November 7, 2006 article by luaptifer at Daily Kos:

Ohio's election results are hosted on the same servers by the partisan companies that run websites like Georgewbush.com and many of the familiar Republican group sites.

More (also see here):

SOS Blackwell also neglected to inform that he outsourced Election Night hosting services to the provider of Internet operations for the Republican National Committee, SMARTech Corp. It's clear that most of the IP address space allocated to Smartechcorp, if it has a domain name, is operated by the RNC or its functionaries and allies.

The firm handles everything Republican:

On August 22, 2004, SMARTech Corp (smartechcorp.net) announced that it would be "hosting" the Republican National Convention in New York City, providing "convention speeches, video-on-demand 'streams' and live shots of events through powerful Web servers, most of which are at Smartech’s headquarters in downtown Chattanooga." The announcement stated that the "company also hosts the Bush-Cheney campaign Web site, at www.georgewbush.com, and the national committee’s site, www.GOP.com."

Smartech shows up in this interesting information technology story from 2004, which outlines a still-unsolved mystery.

During election season, web surfers from outside the United States were not able to access Bush's Web site, GeorgeWBush.com, even though surfers within U.S. borders had no problem doing so. Why this oddity, and who was responsible? The site used network management technology from Akamai Technologies Inc. to restrict access. An Akamai spokesman referred all questions to the hosting company, Smartech. Yet Smartech's president said "All we do is host the site. I have no control over what's being done outside our servers."

Why would anyone within the party would want to restrict foreigners from looking at GeorgeWBush.com?

One possible answer: The intention was to restrict foreign intelligence services or CIA personnel (who cannot operate domestically) from learning about sensitive White House communications using the GWB43 server.

And from the web site of SmartTech:

SMARTech is a leading provider of advanced Internet hosting, network and applications solutions for business. SMARTech delivers services via secure state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers, high-performance content delivery network, and its world-class technical professionals. Our cutting-edge solutions include:

» Wireless Connectivity
» Streaming Media
» Content Delivery
» Complex Hosting
» Dedicated Access and Networking Services
» Web Conferencing
» Mass E-Mail Delivery
» Messaging
» Solutions Architecture
» Internet Security and VPNs


SmarTech Corp.
801 Broad Street, Suite 220
P.O. Box 11181
Chattanooga, TN 37401

Phone: [phone]
Toll Free: 866-664-7684
Fax: [phone]

General: [e-mail]
Sales: [e-mail]
Billing: [e-mail]
Support: [e-mail]



From here: http://www.smartechcorp.net/index.php?page=contact

[notadmblnd]

2. This is what I got from the WH site

IP Address: 204.2.164.88
Website Status: active
Server Type: AkamaiGHost
Alexa Trend/Rank: 1 Month: 12,007 3 Month: 9,519
Page Views per Visit: 1 Month: 2.2 3 Month: 2.1
Cache Date: 2007-08-31 14:29:42 MST
Compare Archived Data: 2007-05-11

What is this AkamiaGHost?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. sorry my mistake

could you repost at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1705725

[notadmblnd]

4. I did