R.N.C. Snap Up Domain Names

[babylonsister]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/rnc-snap-up-domain-names/#more-4456

R.N.C. Snap Up Domain Names

By Kitty Bennett

Cannotrustclinton.com? clintonisbad.com? At least 25 domain names related to Hillary Rodham Clinton have links to the Republican National Committee: the names were either registered by the R.N.C. last year or showed up on servers the committee uses. Half a dozen seemed to guess at Mrs. Clinton’s eventual running mate, such as clintonomalley.com, referring to Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland.

The day after Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucuses, the R.N.C. snapped up at least 20 domains related to his candidacy. Some of them may signal the party’s future strategy: baracknotready.com and norealexperience.com. The party has also begun preemptively registering domains that could be used to attack John McCain, like mccainamigos.com, voteagainstmccain.com, flipflopmccain.com and hatemccain.com (ihatemccain.com was taken.)

The Democratic Party and the campaigns have shown little of the verve and creativity of the R.N.C. The Obama campaign registered desperatehillaryattacks.com in December. The Clinton campaign registered votingpresent.com two days later, an apparent reference to Mr. Obama’s votes as a member of the Illinois legislature. The party has been focused more on the national convention, registering variations of denverdemconvention08.com in February, but so far apparently no domains related to Mr. McCain.

The election has “triggered an avalanche of cybersquatter activity,” according to NetNames, a domain name management service. Speculators have registered nearly 2,000 domain names related to presidential candidates as of last week. Names related to Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy made up over half of the registrations, followed by Mr. Obama with 635 and Mr. McCain with 269.

Domains registered by the R.N.C . or on servers used by the committee:

2007
calculatingclinton.com
canttrustclinton.com
clintonbabbit.com
clintoncleland.com
clintoncohen.com
clintonisbad.com
clintoniscorrupt.com
clintoniswrong.com
clintonkerrey.com
clintonlibrarycard.com
clintonlibraryresolution.com
clintonomalley.com
clintonsalazar.com
clintonschweitzer.com
clintontruthwatch.com
hillaryiswrong.com
hillarymythfact.com
hillaryrecords.com
hillaryspendometer.com
hillarytaxplan.com
hillarytruthsquad.com
hopelesshillary.com
outwithhillary.com
thetwohillarys.com

2008
amateurobama.com
barackisliberal.com
barackiswrong.com
baracknotready.com
barackobamanotready.com
barackobamatheliberal.com
baracktheamateur.com
barackthebeginner.com
fauxbama.org
hesnotready.com
meetbarackobama.com
norealexperience.com
nowecannot.com
nowecannot.net
nowecannot.org
obamaisliberal.com
obamaiswrong.com
obamanotready.com
obamaspendometer.com
obamatheamateur.com
obamathebeginner.com
yeswecandowhat.com
yeswecanwhat.com

[xultar]

1. ROFL.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Sleazy republicons

I realize that is redundant.

[Kittycat]

3. Wow, clinton's list is far more scathing.

[leftofcool]

4. And this is a surprise?

[babylonsister]

8. No, I just thought it was interesting. nt

[leftofcool]

9. Kind of funny if you think about it

Makes me wonder if Dems are snatching any Repuke domains?

[Book Lover]

5. The Clinton and Obama campaigns shoudl have bought them

themselves long ago, frankly.

[Kolesar]

10. molestorsformccain.org is still available

[Kolesar]

6. Poor babies couldn't find the creativity to solve America's problems

but they accomplished inventing domain names. Thus was written the history of the 21st century.

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. "The Democratic Party and the campaigns have shown little of the verve and creativity of the R.N.C."

Except when it comes to finding scapegoats (Ralph Nader running for president, gay people pissing and moaning about the alleged lack of rights, radical fringe groups like the Sierra Club whining about clean air and water, etc.) when their lack of verve and creativity -- not to mention their complicity with treason and refusing to take action against crimes against humanity -- keeps costing them election after election.

[progdonkey]

11. gotta say, "Obama Spendometer" is kinda catchy...

If you say the "-er" to rhyme with Obama.

Just for the record, I'm an Obama voter. I just like the flow of the phrase. O8)

The saving grace is that there's also the "Hillary Spendometer" so the humor is clearly coincidental and not because someone at the RNC actually had some spark of creativity--which is as it should be, since we all know Republicans are incapable of being funny. (Conservative humor: Ted Kennedy blah blah Chappaquiddick!!! Ha Ha!")

[calimary]

12. Now why the hell don't OUR guys/gals do that?

Don't they understand about strategy? Or are they still planning to take feather-dusters to gunfights?

GEEZ...

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Because we're senstive and wussy

We're the very definition of whistle asses.

[calimary]

15. Yeah, no kidding.

I have often complained when I call my reps, begging for backbone, that - if you can't stand up to bush, how do we know you can stand up to bin Laden???

My KINGDOM for a backbone.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. A Pinup that is very frightening to Democrats

[LSK]

14. nowecannot??? way to give hope to America

:eyes:

[sharp_stick]

16. These idiots have way too much time on their hands

if they actually spent a fraction of it doing some real work they might not be so fucking pathetic.

[ExtraGriz]

17. they are going ofter obama on the experience factor? n/t

[AlCzervik]

18. is Republicansaredouchebags.com still available?

[L. Coyote]

19. I tried to get McBush.com. Taken already. McSame taken too.

Are any good ones still available is the current consideration, I suppose.
It does little good to register all these if you overlook the one that is best.