Slog - Comments on Obama Veep Pick Revealed in Web Address? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy 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.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:42:29 -0800 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:12:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by DDW That would be considered a URL, not an email address.

]]> DDW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091216 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091216 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:46:00 -0800 Comment by bohica
The rear view of him on his website doesn't suck...cementing their status as the sex appeal ticket.

]]> bohica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091219 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:48:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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 ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091221 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:50:27 -0800 Comment by David Schmader 1 and 2: You're both right. Word choice corrected, passable ass admired.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091222 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:51:37 -0800 Comment by SDizzle He just seems kind of blah. What does he really do for Obama?

]]> SDizzle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091223 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091223 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:52:00 -0800 Comment by Dan 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

]]> Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091225 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:52:23 -0800 Comment by Cow 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.

]]> Cow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091227 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:52:38 -0800 Comment by Dan @3:

You might be interested in the concept of CNAME records.

]]> Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091233 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091233 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:54:41 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Obama-Chan 2008!

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091234 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:54:47 -0800 Comment by Non You might as well delete this post, David. Everyone read #6 please

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091238 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:58:17 -0800 Comment by monkey @ #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.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091239 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:59:33 -0800 Comment by Non Actually I think you have a do-not-delete policy which I sorta like. NM

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091240 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:59:38 -0800 Comment by Lee A domain name does not a running mate make.

]]> Lee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091241 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:59:53 -0800 Comment by mackro mackro Has ABC tried Obama[Whoever]2008.com?

]]> mackro mackro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091243 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:00:24 -0800 Comment by Cow @6: Damn, lost by five seconds. :)

]]> Cow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091248 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:57 -0800 Comment by chops 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.

]]> chops http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091262 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091262 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:10:03 -0800 Comment by w7ngman Is ABC really too clueless to figure out who registered a domain name? Sad.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091275 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:18:55 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Who would be the top and who would be the bottom on that ticket?

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091280 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:21:57 -0800 Comment by Dan @17:

Yes. And yes.

]]> Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091293 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:29:25 -0800 Comment by Bub 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."

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091299 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:30:58 -0800 Comment by I See So ABC sits around plugging in web addresses to see what they come up with? Now that's journalism.

]]> I See http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091300 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091300 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:31:49 -0800 Comment by PC 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!

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091337 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:04 -0800 Comment by clintonsarmy We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!!!

]]> clintonsarmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091349 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:06:24 -0800 Comment by clintonssarmy Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

]]> clintonssarmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091359 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091359 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:11:01 -0800 Comment by obamascounterinsurgency Look, McCain! A shiny penny!

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

]]> obamascounterinsurgency http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091473 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/obama_veep_revealed_in_email_addy#c1091473 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:12:48 -0800