Obama has change.gov and McCain has RepublicanForAReason.com. Many Internet marketers are commenting that RepublicanForAReason.com is too long and hard to type. I’d have to agree.
It took another Domainer to figure out that RepublicansForAReason.com wasn’t registered, so its now parked at Sedo. I wonder who the (now former) Republican staffer was who forgot to register that one?
Perhaps it was Senator Ted Stevens, former chair the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation? Here is Ted explaining what happened:
2009 is going to be a big year for all of us. ICANN wants to divorce the US government and screw up the Internet with 50 companies running new top-level domains, and application fees at $185,000 each. This gives them a mere $9,250,000 in cash; then cometh the domain registrations. Can we stop this? Yes we can!
The WSJ is reporting that companies are protesting about the proposed new domain names. Who is going to own .hotel or .bank and how much will they charge for a domain name in those TLD’s? Think about all the brands, variants, trademarks - this is going to be a very costly nightmare for business and lead to mass confusion on the part of the consumer.
ICANN’s pathetic reason for existenceis based on a deal with the US Government which expires in September 2009. The agreement is through the Department of Commerce and is known as the Joint Project Agreement (JPA). Will Obama renew it? What are some of the alternatives to ICANN? Running it through/with the Internet Governance Forum at the United Nations?
If you are living in the USA, or are the poor victim of American television, you will probably know that Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate. Now the domain name land grab has begun.
OBAMABIDEN.ORG -> +16 variants = $100k on eBay. Good luck with that!
Even the believers have seen the light - catholicsforobama-biden.net is online now.
electobamabiden.com is live and allegedly paid for by the Republican National Committee.
In any case, it doesn’t matter, Diebold (the company that does the electronic voting) has accidentally leaked the results of the 2008 US Election.
