Crooks & Liars: "Does John McCain’s Campaign Own VotefortheMILF.com?" (same IP address & WHOIS)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Does John McCain’s Campaign Own VotefortheMILF.com?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/10/03/does-john-mccains-campaign-own-voteforthemilfcom/

By: Logan Murphy on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 5:20 PM - PDT

The GOP sure knows its base, you gotta hand it to them. A little digging by Govgap.com reveals that www.votefortheMILF.com links directly back to JohnMcCain.com, then on to Sarah Palin’s page and a video message.

Govgap.com:

- URL Registered within ~36 hours of McCain’s Decision to select Palin as running mate
- Redirect sends users specifically to a palin.htm file, but only on the FIRST redirect
- Whois Privacy Information Matches JohnMcCain.com Whois Privacy
- URL Held by same registrar
- Note that the .net and .org versions also redirect to the McCain Campaign Website.
Network Tools.com Trace Route:
- 64.203.107.149 (VoteForTheMILF.com)
- 64.203.107.149 (JohnMcCain.com) Read on: http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Now that was quite a find!

By the way, McCain/Palin are PTMS (politicians who make me sick)

[Gman]

2. It now redirects to google.com

[blogslut]

4. Probably because the McSame campaign never owned that domain

Whoever owns it was pointing it to the McSame's hosting server. My guess is the McSame campaign blocked the redirect via .htaccess.

[achtung_circus]

3. Well, in light of

Larry Flint's having made a film "starring" an actress solicited via craigslist (no anal required) and some of the proposed names (I like imPalin' Sarah) this might be a preemptive registration by McCain.