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Friday, August 1, 2008

Obama Veep Pick Revealed in Web Address?

posted by on August 1 at 10:42 AM

ABC News on the curious fact that typing www.ObamaBayh08.com into your web browser takes you to the Democratic National Committee’s official website.

ABC tries a number of other potential Obama/VP combinations—ObamaKaine08.com, ObamaBiden08.com, ObamaSebelius08.com—and comes up with nothing.

Coincidence? Red-herring hacking? Who knows?

In the meantime, meet Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.

UPDATE: As a number of commenters have confirmed, it’s just some garden-variety cybersquatting. Carry on.

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1

That would be considered a URL, not an email address.

Posted by DDW | August 1, 2008 10:46 AM
2


The rear view of him on his website doesn't suck...cementing their status as the sex appeal ticket.

Posted by bohica | August 1, 2008 10:48 AM
3

And setting an auto-redirect in the root index.html page can be done by anyone to redirect traffic to anywhere - including places that never asked you to link them.

Just check out www.mccainbush08.com ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 1, 2008 10:50 AM
4

1 and 2: You're both right. Word choice corrected, passable ass admired.

Posted by David Schmader | August 1, 2008 10:51 AM
5

He just seems kind of blah. What does he really do for Obama?

Posted by SDizzle | August 1, 2008 10:52 AM
6

Um, no. The domain record shows it was registered by some random dude in Massachusetts on May of last year, long before Obama was even the presumptive nominee.

This is just a case of domain squatting and nothing more.

Registrant:
joe chan
1156 commonwealth ave
apt 47
allston, Massachusetts 02134
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: OBAMABAYH08.COM
Created on: 06-May-07
Expires on: 06-May-09
Last Updated on: 22-Feb-08

Posted by Dan | August 1, 2008 10:52 AM
7

Registrant:
joe chan
1156 commonwealth ave
apt 47
allston, Massachusetts 02134
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: OBAMABAYH08.COM


Yes, I'll put high levels of confidence in -this- one.

Posted by Cow | August 1, 2008 10:52 AM
8

@3:

You might be interested in the concept of CNAME records.

Posted by Dan | August 1, 2008 10:54 AM
9

Obama-Chan 2008!

Posted by Ziggity | August 1, 2008 10:54 AM
10

You might as well delete this post, David. Everyone read #6 please

Posted by Non | August 1, 2008 10:58 AM
11

@ #5, looks good without upstaging Obama.

Really though, he's a fiscally conservative Dem in a farming state, twice Gov then twice Senator, on the Armed Services and Small Business committees.

It makes me curious enough to want to learn more about him.

Posted by monkey | August 1, 2008 10:59 AM
12

Actually I think you have a do-not-delete policy which I sorta like. NM

Posted by Non | August 1, 2008 10:59 AM
13

A domain name does not a running mate make.

Posted by Lee | August 1, 2008 10:59 AM
14

Has ABC tried Obama[Whoever]2008.com?

Posted by mackro mackro | August 1, 2008 11:00 AM
15

@6: Damn, lost by five seconds. :)

Posted by Cow | August 1, 2008 11:03 AM
16

indiana would be a good pick-up for obama.
but not if indiana's GOP governor can appoint a winger to the senate in bayh's absence.

Posted by chops | August 1, 2008 11:10 AM
17

Is ABC really too clueless to figure out who registered a domain name? Sad.

Posted by w7ngman | August 1, 2008 11:18 AM
18

Who would be the top and who would be the bottom on that ticket?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | August 1, 2008 11:21 AM
19

@17:

Yes. And yes.

Posted by Dan | August 1, 2008 11:29 AM
20

Evan Bayh has such a strong resume, everyone has always assumed that he'd run for President some day. I've always wonder why he hasn't tried yet. Was he constantly deferring to other people, say Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and Clinton in 2008? Might that deferential quality make him the perfect Vice President? FUN FACT: Senator Bayh's full name is Birch Evans Bayh, after his father. Washingtonians on the border should especially appreciate a name like "Birch Bayh."

Posted by Bub | August 1, 2008 11:30 AM
21

So ABC sits around plugging in web addresses to see what they come up with? Now that's journalism.

Posted by I See | August 1, 2008 11:31 AM
22

Why Bayh?

1.Do no harm. A boring safe pick.

2. However "Evan" Bayh (not his real name btw) has got that big ol' "IIId" behind his name (he's really Birch Evans BBayh III).

Oh one of those guys with two last names -- and that IIId thing --

His DADDY was sen of IN -- so it's not a fake "IIId" he really is kind of one of those "dynasty" type guys.

I guess you could sum him up as progeny of a "DC insider/political dynastyfamily/uppercrust law school-lawyer-politics the IIId" kind of background.

So this doesn't exactly reinforce the "change" thing.

3. I wouldn't focus on bringing home IN a red state, when we do not even have VA or OH locked down.

3. The 1 minute google suggests the gov. of IN Governor Mitchell Daniels (R-IN)
1st term Republican first elected in 2004.

Um, I do believe that means this GOPster would pick the new sen. to replace Bayh.

4. But Bayh satisfies the clear no. 1 requirement that Obama not have a strong rival on his team. That'd be so Olde Politics, like Abe Lincoln and his cabinet of rivals, or John Kennedy picking LBJ!

Posted by PC | August 1, 2008 12:00 PM
23

We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!!!

Posted by clintonsarmy | August 1, 2008 12:06 PM
24

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by clintonssarmy | August 1, 2008 12:11 PM
25

Look, McCain! A shiny penny!

(that will take care of him for a week or so)

Posted by obamascounterinsurgency | August 1, 2008 1:12 PM

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