Republicans register domains after baloney remark.
Yesterday during the 435th (sorry, I’ve lost count) Republican presidential debate New Gingrich told frontrunner Mitt Romney to drop the “pious baloney”.
And while Americans open up their dictionary to figure out what that means, the same web hosting company that manages domains for the Republican National Committee was busy registering domain names:
EndPiousBaloneyNow.org and .com
StopRomneyBaloney.org and .com
StopRomneysPiousBaloney.org and .com
All of the domain registrations have privacy protected whois records.
Is this Newt’s camp going on the offensive? I doubt it. It’s probably the Republicans snapping up these domain names to keep them out of the Democrat’s hands.
I don’t know if these registrations are necessary. How many people can actually spell pious, let alone baloney? Typos of these are probably better defensive registrations.
Tom says
A political campaign or organization has a much different agenda and operates a lot more loosely then a domain investor or business that is only successful when earning a profit.
In the case of a campaign, we’re talking about an organization or a candidate that potentially has millions of dollars to spend in a relatively short time and whose only objective is to get you to like him or her enough to get your vote…or to get you NOT to like the competition, which achieves the same objective.
At $8 a domain with virtually no long-term concern about renewal fees (past the election cycle, who cares?), the staff of every political campaign on the planet should be looking to domains as a way to get an edge up in the ever changing media circus that the process has become. The risk of the “other side” making your candidate look like an idiot by registering an embarrassing or potentially damaging domain…and then actually using it to call attention to your candidate in a negative light, is just to great of a risk.
I personally like that political campaigns and organizations are thinking along these lines, it’s just they don’t always choose the best domains, even if their heads are in the right place. So, while these specific “Pious Baloney” domains may not be anything any of us would consider valuable, we operate under a different set of rules.