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George W. Bush buys anti-Bush names

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-it's-a-cool-sort-of dept.

Quite a number of people have written over the last few days, alerting us to the fact that it appears that presidential candidate George W. Bush, has bought up over 200 Internet Domain Names. The article on Zdnet says that people wanted to put a website up at www.bushsucks.com, but Bush bought that, and more such as bushsucks.net, bushsucks.org, and even bushblows.com Huh-I guess it's a way of having a clue. Sort of.

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  1. Register, Read, Vote. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    This is slightly off topic: I just want to remind everyone to register to vote, read up on the issues, and vote. This crap does affect you and don't be turned off by the negative advertizing which is used by both sides and which is designed to disgust people into not voting. Geeks and other independent minded people are easily turned off by this stuff. Don't get fooled, find a reason to vote and do it.

  2. Baahhh by Micah · · Score: 4

    I've always believed that there should be strict rules for buying domain names:

    1. You must be some kind of an official organization
    2. There should be a certain number of individual computers uniquely connected to it (no virtual hosting crap)
    3. ONLY ONE domain per organization
    4. That name must say who you are

    Domain names were never intended to be used by everly little clown that wants a web site. They were intended to identify networks and to give organizations their own namespace.

    I like Bush, but this is kinda stupid. Maybe I'll vote for Alan Keyes like I did last time.

    1. Re:Baahhh by Hobbex · · Score: 4

      This how the Swedish Internic has it, only registered (limited) companies can register domains, and only one a piece. The result? Well, someone discovered that the .nu domain of Nuie (South Pacific) means "now" in Swedish, so all the companies registered a hundred million domains there instead. Really smart.

      Worst part is that it's some American lawyer who manages it, not the polynesians, who gets all the money...

  3. I don't get it by Jonathan · · Score: 4

    So George buys up some insulting domain names. But first of all, it's not hard to come up with new domain names like that -- bushstinks, etc. Secondly, who would really use these domain names? Even fruity Al "I invented the Internet" Gore isn't so childish that he'd be interested in using them for his own sites. So what did Bush really gain by this?

  4. www.microsfot.com by HomerJ · · Score: 4

    Alot of people/companies buy alot of domain names that are related to them, or can be used against them. At $35 it's an inexpensive way to protect yourself. It would be a story if he DIDN'T reg the names.

    Apple owns 100's of domain names to point to thier website, Nike owns around 500 I belive, and I'm sure there are alot of others who own that amount of domain names.

    And I'll be damned, look where www.microsfot.org takes me too.....

  5. We need more Slashdot categories by Craig+Davison · · Score: 5
    We need some more filterable categories for stories.
    1. Domain name related stories

      These stories weren't very interesting to begin with and now they're just plain annoying. I don't care.

    2. Linux devel. kernel releases

      I care about Linux news, but not what people have to say about piddly bi-weekly kernel improvements.

    Thank you, and good night.

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