Presidential Candidate Domain Name Registrations

[sneakymagenta]

Why is he using Domains by Proxy?  :

[BellisimaJ.]

a. He's stupid.
b. He hires stupid people.

But we knew those things already.  tolensmiley:

[regic]

I take it he's not a big believer in open government...

[BellisimaJ.]

There has been plenty of commentary about what Governor Sarah Palin's hotness factor brings to the McCain-Palin ticket, but thus far the RNC has kept the dialogue on a professional level. Until it was discovered yesterday that the McCain campaign owns voteforthemilf.com. The URL was purchased via the McCain campaign's Go Daddy account. Furthermore, McCain's camp is not denying ownership at this point. Even more telling is that upon entering the URL, the site immediately redirects you to a personal video message from Gov. Palin on McCain's official website. A video posted to YouTube shows the redirect in case the campaign changes it, as seems likely.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlotte-...30288.html

Why am I not surprised?  :


(and I still don't feel that she is all that attractive---not that it should matter, obviously)

[jezebel]

voteforthemilf.com is being redirected to a Wikipedia article on domain registration

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=18495.msg72686#msg72686 date=1222801961]
voteforthemilf.com is being redirected to a Wikipedia article on domain registration
[/quote]


Yeah, I saw that. The video shows the original redirect.

[youtube=425,350]Mnv7dRwBbMA[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnv7dRwBbMA&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlotte-hilton-andersen/mccain-plays-the-milf-car_b_130288.html

[BellisimaJ.]

[bargainbloodhound]

Voteforthemilf.com's  'johnmccain.com mccain palin 2008' page title is because the domain was being forwarded to that site.  Forwarded domains show the page title of the site they're being forwarded to, but anyone can forward a domain to any site without owning the site they're forwarding the name to.

[BellisimaJ.]

http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mc...hemilfcom/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udCfLzxNILY

EDIT: I have been trying to determine if this is a hoax, but not having any real luck. I did check snopes.com, politifact, factcheck.org, etc.. Nothing. The McCain campaign has not denied it, and there is also an article on The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlotte-...30288.html

If anyone has any info, please post it.

[BellisimaJ.]

Still searching, but this is what the Washington Post had to say: (bolding is mine)

Posted at 4:25 PM ET, 09/29/2008
McCain Campaign, Of MILF and Men

What a bizarre (and tawdry) series-of-tubes headache for the McCain campaign.

How could it be that a Web site titled "VoteForTheMilf" redirects users to Republican nominee John McCain's official campaign Website? True stuff. Or at least it was until someone mysteriously un-directed the redirection.

As of just moments ago, anyone who typed "www.voteforthemilf.com" into his or her Web browser and hit enter was immediately redirected to McCain's site, www.johnmccain.com, where vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin greeted first-time users via video. (The .net and .org versions of voteforthemilf also redirected users to the mccain campaign site.)

The curious linkage was first discovered by GovGap. As you can see at Network Solutions, the "voteforthemilf" domain was created on Aug. 29, the same day that McCain announced Palin as his running mate.

So, the big question, of course, is: did the McCain campaign buy the URL to prevent sophomoric adversaries from doing so?

The McCain campaign says no. "We did not. We had nothing to do with it," McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers tells the Sleuth.
In an email, Rogers explained that someone or some persons bought the domain name - anonymously, of course - and set it to direct users to the McCain campaign Website.

As proof that the McCain campaign was innocent in the voteforthemilf.com-morphing-into-johnmccain.com mystery, Rogers pointed out that the domain servers for that Website are different than the domain servers for johnmccain.com, as you can see on the Network Solutions site by clicking here for the milf site information and here for the McCain site information. But, of course, that still doesn't prove they are unaffiliated, does it? As GovGap reports, the URL for both sites is held by the same registrar.

But mere moments ago, none of that seemed to matter anymore. Now, after the Sleuth contacted the McCain campaign for a response to the MILF mix-up, the voteforthemilf.com url suddenly - and without explanation - redirects users to this page about domain name systems at Wikipedia.

"There is no way for us to stop that," Rogers insisted earlier today when we asked him about the McCain campaign's involvement in the voteforthemilf site. "Someone could go buy brianrogersisajerk.com and direct it at johnmccain.com."

Rogers didn't reply (at least not by the time we posted) when asked whether the McCain campaign had anything to do with redirecting voteforthemilf.com away from the McCain
campaign Website and toward Wikipedia instead.

UPDATE at 9:48 PM ET: Asked whether the campaign somehow convinced the registrants of the MILF site to suddenly redirect users to Wikipedia instead of to the McCain campaign Website, Rogers told the Sleuth, "We never contacted them."

Now, we all know what a jerk is. But just in case you don't know what MILF stands for, please ask one of your under 50 guy friends. Or you could always look it up yourself on "the Google," as President Bush calls it.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/...nd_me.html