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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Laugh of the Day


At the beginning of the year, President Barack Obama's new 501(c)4 political nonprofit, Organizing For Action, was launched with all the usual bells and whistles. But the tech wizards at OFA forgot one important rule in today's Internet world: Register all the iterations of your website address before someone else does. 

Now Obama's team is filing complaints against the folks smart enough to get the addresses before he did.
As Obama's OFA made its debut, no one in his purportedly Internet-savvy campaign had obtained the corresponding .com, .net, .org or .us sites, nor did OFA register other names that are close to its official one, as is the sensible practice. In the case of the .net address, a fellow named Derek Bovard had already registered the .net address by the time Obama's team took notice.
Bovard has routed his new site to the homepage of the National Rifle Association.
So, whenever anyone goes to www.organizingforaction.net they end up seeing the homepage of the NRA.
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Thanks to Leigh for the grins.

2 comments:

  1. Back in '96 a guy did that with PETA.org, which linked a site named People Eating Tasty Animals. The Dietetically Superior went ballistic, natch, and flooded him with the sickest most vomitous email you ever saw, wishing his unborn children to die of rectal cancer, etc.

    His response was to......post the email. All of it. You can still find it by Googling, and it's a worthwhile window into the "mind" of leftists.

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  2. Reminds me very much of when the Clinton White house forgot to register "whitehouse.com"

    For those who don't know, whitehouse.com is very NSFW.

    - Brad

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