John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com?
Updates:
First, some Updates:
- If you were one of the 120,000 visitors who experienced the redirect before it was changed, post a comment below for the record.
The Redirect has been changed 5 times over 48 Hours:
-From the time this article was published, until 3:34 PM EDT (9.29.08), the redirect pointed to John McCain.com as explained in video and screenshots below. The redirect had received about 120,000 clicks just through GovGap by this time and had just started to be picked up widely by other blogs and media outlets (Washington Post, FireDogLake, etc.) when the redirect was changed.
-As of 3:35 PM EDT (9.29.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to google.com
-As of 3:49 PM EDT (9.29.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to a Wikipedia page about domain registration.
-As of 9:11 PM EDT (9.30.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to a blog entry suggesting that the redirect was a simple prank.
-As of 3:02 AM EDT (10.01.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to google.com.
Washington Post Picks Up Story, NYTimes Published list of RNC Owned Domain Names:
-Washington Post publishes an Article and requests comment from the McCain Campaign. McCain Campaign denies any involvement, suggesting the URL redirection was a prank they have nothing to do with, and no control over.
-The NYTimes published a verified list of opposition URLS owned by the Republican National Committee
[end of introductory update - more updates below]
Original Post:
Video:
Visit VoteForTheMILF.com and you will be redirected specifically to a video intro by Gov. Sarah Palin at JohnMcCain.com if you are hitting it for the first time. Note that the redirect sends you first to JohnMcCain.com and THEN to Palin.htm (Palin’s Video Intro) if you’re visiting for the first time, or if your cookies are cleared, or if you’re not accepting cookies. Here’s a video of this taking place:
- URL Registered within 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)
It’s impossible to know if this is an intentional or unintentional error on the part of the McCain Campaign, but it wouldn’t be at all surprising. Seems they’re just learning to use the “internet/the google” to promote their candidate (as in: accidentally releasing ‘McCain Wins Debate’ ads 14 hours before First Presidential Debate and 4 Hours before McCain decided he was going to debate after all.):
More than likely, some underling in the McCain Campaign was told to buy up dozens and dozens of related URLS within the McCain Campaign GoDaddy account (perhaps all of the variations of John McCain’s name, Campaign Slogans, opposition URLS, etc) and just set them all to redirect to their main site which can be easily done within the GoDaddy control panel by selecting all the URLS and setting up a forward or simple redirect with a PHP header in any of those sites.
Whoever was in charge probably did not distinguish between the URLS they had bought for misspelled attempts to get to the campaign website / thematic redirects (IE: JohnMcCainForPresident.com), and the urls they had bought to deny the opposition territory to make anti-McCain websites; McCainSucks.com, etc.
It will be most interesting to see if this redirect changes. If the redirect is discontinued, it’s probably most certainly the McCain Campaign … (Hi Steve! Hey Rick! Say ‘howdy’ to John for me - and tell him good luck with his lousy sleazy campaign!) … if not, it’s someone trying to improve their page rank.
In either case, we’ll be monitoring the publicly available Whois information carefully.
***BREAKING UPDATE****
The NYTIMES has published a list of opposition URLS verifiably owned by the R.N.C.
Domains registered by the R.N.C . or on servers used by the committee:
2007
calculatingclinton.com
canttrustclinton.com
clintonbabbit.com
clintoncleland.com
clintoncohen.com
clintonisbad.com
clintoniscorrupt.com
clintoniswrong.com
clintonkerrey.com
clintonlibrarycard.com
clintonlibraryresolution.com
clintonomalley.com
clintonsalazar.com
clintonschweitzer.com
clintontruthwatch.com
hillaryiswrong.com
hillarymythfact.com
hillaryrecords.com
hillaryspendometer.com
hillarytaxplan.com
hillarytruthsquad.com
hopelesshillary.com
outwithhillary.com
thetwohillarys.com
amateurobama.com
barackisliberal.com
barackiswrong.com
baracknotready.com
barackobamanotready.com
barackobamatheliberal.com
baracktheamateur.com
barackthebeginner.com
fauxbama.org
hesnotready.com
meetbarackobama.com
norealexperience.com
nowecannot.com
nowecannot.net
nowecannot.org
obamaisliberal.com
obamaiswrong.com
obamanotready.com
obamaspendometer.com
obamatheamateur.com
obamathebeginner.com
yeswecandowhat.com
yeswecanwhat.com
More at: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/rnc-snaps-up-domain-names/
More Updates:
UPDATE 1:
As of 4:23PM (EDT) The Whois has been set to ‘Private’ for the .com and .net versions of this URL.
The .org, however, still retains an Arizona Address, albeit, still ‘Domains by Proxy’ - note that ‘Domains by Proxy’ is a company based out of Arizona, and has been for years. Domains by Proxy is GoDaddy’s company that handles its privacy, so any domain registered with GoDaddy’s Whois privacy are handled by Domains by Proxy:
Domain ID:D153964447-LROR
Domain Name:VOTEFORTHEMILF.ORG
Created On:30-Aug-2008 04:48:12 UTC
Last Updated On:30-Aug-2008 04:48:15 UTC
Expiration Date:30-Aug-2009 04:48:12 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:GODA-052597126
Registrant Name:Registration Private
Registrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Registrant Street1:DomainsByProxy.com
Registrant Street2:15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Scottsdale
Registrant State/Province:Arizona
Registrant Postal Code:85260
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.4806242599
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+1.4806242598
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:VOTEFORTHEMILF.ORG@domainsbyproxy.com
UPDATE 2:
VoteForTheMILF.com address / proxy information matches Registrar and JohnMcCain.com Whois Privacy Company:
UPDATE 3:
SomeoneGNU (Digg.com) brought this to GOVGAP’s attention:
Little interesting fact - the first time you go to the link you’re actually redirected to: http://www.johnmccain.com/palin.htm which means they’re watching for that domain. All other times, you go right to the front page.
Either they’re reacting to this domain really well, or they own it.
UPDATE 4:
There’s some discussion going on in the Digg thread about the origins of the redirect:
UPDATE 5:
TrackBack Comment Round Up:
From: Washington City Desk
GovGap published a story last night revealing that www.voteforthemilf.com, www.voteforthemilf.net, and www.voteforthemilf.org all direct users to John McCain’s campaign website.
…
This is actually a pretty common means of anticipating counter information. When the American Dental Association, a proponent of water fluoridation, learned that an anti-fluoride group owned the domain name fluoridealert.org, the ADA bought the domains fluoridealert.com and fluoridealert.net, and redirected both addresses to the ADA page on the benefits of fluoride. If the McCain camp did indeed buy these domain names, we now know that the camp never really expected voters to view her primarily as a serious political or intellectual threat.
From Blog RPI:
sexist much? what a bunch of wankers….
OMG…thanks for posting the proof before McCain’s camp changes the re-direct.
Yes, domains by proxy is a service and yes it does hide owner information but this isn’t a redirect. Domains by proxy do not hide DNS Servers. Just registration information. Hmm, anyone have access to domain tools to see what other domains are also hosted on the DNS A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET? 463 domains, bet they are all part of the McCain Camp.
[...] read more | digg story [...]
They also own mccain-cthulhu.com !
A live.com search by IP will show you all the hosts on a given IP
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=ip%3A64.203.107.149&go=&form=QBNO
.149 = voteforthemilf.com, voteforthemilf.net, voteforthemilf.org
.148 = lots of name.johnmccain.com - mcainspace personal pages
.147 = mccain-cthulhu.com (redirects to johnmcain.com)
[...] Owned through GoDaddy. Talk about sexist… what is the Campaign thinking?http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/ [...]
tony@WS04:~$ dig johnmccain.com
; <> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <> johnmccain.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9283
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;johnmccain.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
johnmccain.com. 34 IN A 64.203.107.149
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
johnmccain.com. 33781 IN NS ns1.cha.smartechcorp.net.
johnmccain.com. 33781 IN NS ns4.atl.smartechcorp.net.
johnmccain.com. 33781 IN NS a.ns.trespassers-w.net.
johnmccain.com. 33781 IN NS ns3.atl.smartechcorp.net.
johnmccain.com. 33781 IN NS ns2.cha.smartechcorp.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.cha.smartechcorp.net. 177684 IN A 64.203.97.99
ns2.cha.smartechcorp.net. 177684 IN A 64.203.98.243
a.ns.trespassers-w.net. 4782 IN A 82.165.241.22
ns3.atl.smartechcorp.net. 91182 IN A 199.0.173.33
ns4.atl.smartechcorp.net. 91182 IN A 199.0.173.34
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 171.64.7.99#53(171.64.7.99)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 29 00:27:38 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 257
tony@WS04:~$ dig voteforthemilf.com
; <> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <> voteforthemilf.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8953
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;voteforthemilf.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
voteforthemilf.com. 2693 IN A 64.203.107.149
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
voteforthemilf.com. 2693 IN NS ns57.domaincontrol.com.
voteforthemilf.com. 2693 IN NS ns58.domaincontrol.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns57.domaincontrol.com. 123957 IN A 216.69.185.29
ns58.domaincontrol.com. 127591 IN A 208.109.255.29
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 171.64.7.99#53(171.64.7.99)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 29 00:27:44 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 136
[...] (and home to plenty of evidence): GovGap.com tagged: dick morries | fox news | mccain | sarah plain | sexism | http://www.voteforthemilf.com [...]
[...] bien apunta GovGap, bien podría ser que los responsables de campaña de John McCain han querido registrar unos [...]
Are they and their sexist a-holes supporters going to blame this on liberal hackers too?!
[...] ist die Gerüchteküche am Brodeln: McCain (oder sein Wahlkampfteam) selbst hätte die Website registriert. Wenn ein anderer McCain damit schaden wollte und das ganze Szenario nur aufgesetzt hätte, [...]
Just thought it was weird that the registrant address’ street name is Sarah Palin’s maiden name “Hayden”.
Being redirected to /Palin.htm is the standard functionality of JohnMcCain.com if it is your first visit. It has noting to do with voteforthemilf.com. Delete your JohnMcCain.com cookies and load JohnMcCain.com and it will redirect you to /Palin.htm.
Wow you guys are seriously pulling out all the detective work, but I’m not so convinced that they’re not just trying to capitalize off of someone redirecting it to them.
Also domains by proxy is GoDaddy’s teritary company that handles its privacy, so any domain registered with GoDaddy’s whois privacy is handled by Domains by Proxy.
I don’t loke MaCain,Old man Old wisdom.
http://www.look4myloan.com/student_loan
http://look4myloan.com/payday_loans
http://look4myloan.com/mortgage_loans
[...] El equipo de McCain tiene el dominio VoteForTheMILF.com (SFW)www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/ por KarmaPolice hace pocos segundos [...]
[...] on the official McCain site. And not just that, but it appears that the McCain campaign actually owns the URL, having registered it the day after Sarah Palin was introduced as McCain’s running [...]
If you want to grab some REALLY FUNNY McCain and Palin stuff, go here now.
Order now, as she probably wont even be on the ticket past Friday!
cut and paste this:
http://www.cafepress.com/hi_fi_shirts
[...] nettsteder mener at McCain-kampanjen faktisk står bak nettstedet. Det er i såfall ganske dristig markedsføring i et land hvor man ikke skal finne på spesielt mye [...]
[...] GovGap [...]
[...] http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/ [...]
[...] Source: GovGap [...]
“Just thought it was weird that the registrant address’ street name is Sarah Palin’s maiden name “Hayden”
Her maiden name is Heath, not Hayden…
voteforthegilf.com does the same thing
Yea but voteforthegilf.com doesn’t have the exact same ip when you ping it.
Does it even matter? Of course they will buy up all the domains they can, you dont think the obama campaign did too? Its cheap advertising to have all these domains link directly to their main website. And duh, anyone who would bother goto voteformilf would be someone getting to info on palin, so why not redirect there?
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM
Created on: 29-Aug-08
Expires on: 30-Aug-09
Last Updated on: 29-Aug-08
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598
Technical Contact:
Private, Registration VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598
Domain servers in listed order:
NS57.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS58.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
some idiot made this url then redirects it to a mcain site to cause problems.
I support Ron Paul and have no reason to cause any issues. We run a revolution, no propaganda required.
[...] More info from GovGap: [...]
johnmccain.com will redirect to you palin’s page on your first visit there, its some troll with a redirect.
Hoax. The domain is just privacy protected with godaddy to look the same. The webserver hosting johnmccain.com is configured to redirect all unconfigured requests on 64.203.107.149 to http://www.johnmcain.com. And the default behavior of http://www.johnmccain.com is, as mentioned above, to redirect all first time visitors to /palin.html via a cookie check.
check the raw http responses from the server if you doubt it.
vote4themilf.com
[...] the cat is out of the bag. There’s a full discussion along with breaking updates over at Govgap.com’s John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? article. Share and [...]
[...] Here’s a little bit of interesting news. The URL http://www.votefortheMILF.com redirects you to the McCain/Palin campaign website. This is not the action of some sly Republican. It’s the action of the John McCain campaign itself. Obviously, they think she’s a serious contender.[Hat tip to GOVGAP.com] [...]
[...] the same host as McCains webste) has registered the domain VoteForTheMILF.com. I discovered this at GovGap. They have a more detailed writeup with further speculation on their site. Here’s the DNS [...]
[...] Then read more here (including a timeline of updates on changing WhoIs information). [...]
[...] it’s that big of a deal, but it’s still pretty funny. John McCain’s camp owns voteforthemilf.com and it redirects to a specific page on the johnmccain.com (apparently for monitoring [...]
Search on LIVE from MS for ip:64.203.107.147 ip:64.203.107.148 ip:64.203.107.149 to get more results from all domains and sub domains. Or query the dns pool.
Remind me why this matters, again? If I was running a campaign I’d buy [myname]sucks.com and things like that too.
[...] GovGap: The website VoteForTheMilf.com forwards to JohnMcCain.com/palin.htm. Both trace to the same IP [...]
[...] through GoDaddy. Talk about sexist… what is the Campaign thinking?read more | digg story No tags for this post. Also on Credit Card Expert blogNone Found Comments 0 Post [...]
When you make the GET request for the website, the header data that is returned is as follows:
http://voteforthemilf.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: voteforthemilf.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092313 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.2
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.x 302 Found
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch
Location: http://www.johnmccain.com/
Content-Length: 210
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
My understanding is that if it was bounced and redirected, we’d get an intermediate step in there.
[...] John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? | GOVGAP - - 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. [...]
[...] hacked johnmccain.com, or the campaign has deliberately set up their site to link MILF to Palin. Apparently the McCain campaign actually owns the domain VoteForTheMILF.com. We’ll see how this one plays out, but for now, all I can say [...]
[...] read more | digg story [...]
[...] John McCain owns VoteForTheMILF.com? We know it links to McCain’s page. Also included is a list amusing domain names that the RNC owns. | [GovGap] [...]
[...] READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND ALL UPDATES HERE. [...]
[...] Here’s some more info via GovGap.com… [...]
[...] Owned through GoDaddy. Talk about sexist… what is the Campaign thinking? scooby doo coverread more | digg [...]
Since I do plan on voting for the MILF, what’s the big deal????
I’ll pass on the “milf”, never really wanted to hit it with any lady who’s had that many kids. I’d have to wrap a towel around it just to touch the sides. No thanks! (and I’m not voting for Miss Alaska and her rambling idiot answers either)
voteforthemilf.com now redirects to google.com, that was quick!
found that you can see the thumbnails of what the site shows what it looked like, (the palin.html page) over the last few days. and it now points to wikipedia article about DNS
http://whois.domaintools.com/voteforthemilf.com
[...] John McCain owns VoteForTheMilf.com. [...]
[...] Read here with more updates [...]
I was part of the lucky ones. I Rofl’d.
Wow. That’s hilarious.
Screenshot for prosperity…
http://twitpic.com/du5z
i saw it i was telling my coworker about it and just checked again and was supprised to go to a wiki …
I was lucky too, lol
Last time I checked it was this morning at it was still directing to the McCain website. After work, I check again and it appears they “fixed” the “glitch.” Total crap. The McCain campaign is full of pathological liars.
hypocrisy is John McCains middle name. Calling the Democrats sexist for their attacks on Palin but has his campaign has the gall to register this website for redirection.
Good work for pointing it out!
I noticed the redirect went down. IMO this was an intentional redirect from the McCain website gurus (whether directed by the campain hq or not) to the Palin page. The IPs of the two servers are the same:
dig johnmccain.com +short && dig voteforthemilf.com +short
64.203.107.149
64.203.107.149
Also, the voteforthemilf.com domain did not only redirect to the McCain camp homepage, and importantly, did not directly redirect to the Palin page. So:
1. set the IP address to the same server. (any domain owner can do that)
2 redirect to johnmccain.com homepage (again, anydomainowner can do that, but not with step 1).
3. add a redirect from johnmccain.com to johnmccain.com/palin.htm
Steps two and three have to be done by someone who has access to the johnmccain.com website. And step 3 specifically redirects the voteforthemilf.com domain to the palin.htm page.
If the objective was to divert traffic to the McCain/Palin campaign, there would be no need to add the 3rd step.
cheers
Y
I saw it! It was awesome!
Also, boo YouTube/McCain for taking down that video.
[...] John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? | GOVGAP [...]
I saw it too. Best find ever.
I got palin.htm! For realzies!
[...] From here: - If you were one of the 120,000 visitors who experienced the redirect before it was changed, post [...]
[...] to this site, it has now been proved that the domain name “VoteForTheMILF.com” was purchased by the [...]
wish it still worked like it did this morning! what a riot!!
How low will McCain go and why won’t he make Palin go lower?
[...] More info from GovGap: (The site that broke the story) [...]
I still got it when it redirected to the McCain campaign website. this is ridiculous.
I definitely did it this morning and it sent me directly to john mccain’s site
fucking morons. I hope you and the black thief from chicago rot in hell.
[...] Remember when it was disrespectful for Sen. Joe Biden to note that Gov. Sarah Palin is good-looking? Members of Sen. John McCain’s campaign appear to have arrived at the same conclusion. The domain name www.voteforthemilf.com was purchased under the same account Go Daddy account as http://www.johnmccain.com, as first reported by GovGap. [...]
Beautiul!! THERE IS NO WAY HE should win the presidency now!!!
If he does, then democracy never existed!!
I just did a whois on http://www.johnmccain.com and it is now giving this IP address:
72.21.92.132
Earlier when I read this, it was giving the IP address:
64.203.107.149
No idea what to make of this, just thought it was interesting.
[...] McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com (Govgap.com) / [...]
[...] Talk about sexist… what is the Campaign thinking? xmen the last stand boston screeningread more | digg [...]
[...] als gegadigde voor zijn rechterhand in het Witte Huis, dan kunt u daar nu mee ophouden. De campagne bezit namelijk de domeinnaam votefortheMILF.com en laat deze doorverwijzen naar [...]
More info, including IPs, routes and AS handles (tick the boxes in the upper right hand corner) -
http://www.robtex.com/dns/voteforthemilf.com.html
http://www.robtex.com/dns/johnmccain.com.html
[...] Republican Party, so there must was scrambling at McShame headquarter after http://www.votefortheMILF.com was exposed as being owned by the Republican presidential nom’s [...]
[...] to govgap.com the Whois Privacy information for Votefrothe MILF.com matches JohnMcCain.com’s Whois Privacy [...]
[...] John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com?: Apparently my earlier assumption was wrong, and that voteforthemilf.com really is controlled by McCain's campaign. Classy. Really classy. [...]
[...] McCain campaign owns the URL voteforthemilf.com. [...]
[...] Now that you know what a MILF is, scratch your chin a little bit and ponder over who might own a web site called “Vote for the MILF dot com.” The MILF in this case is Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, and the owner of VoteForTheMILF.com is allegedly JohnMcCain.com. [...]
[...] NPR Gets Social VoteForTheMilf.com Prank October 1, 2008 Over the last few days, news that VoteForTheMilf.com pointed to the McCain campaign website (and a video greeting from Sarah [...]
[...] Calling your running mate a Mom I‘d Like to F**k doesn’t really demonstrate the family values and moral stance hyped by the Republican Party, so there must was scrambling at McShame headquarter after his campaign’s ownership of http://www.votefortheMILF.com was exposed. [...]
[...] own right) and whose own campaign directors think is best promoted by buying the domain name “voteforthemilf.com“, is a BETTER choice for President and Vice President than Barack Obama and Joe [...]
OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS NOT A PRANK. It was clearly a weak attempt by the McCain campaign to seem hip. For disbelievers, just one question:
- IF THIS WAS A PRANK, WHY WOULD THEY CHANGE THEIR REDIRECT TO A WIKI PAGE? That wikipedia link basically said, “anyone could’ve registered the page and linked to johnmccain.com”. <– So why would they change it at all!? If the intent of this page was to embarass the Mccain/Palin campaign, why would they change their site? Especially when it just starts to get attention from the internet community. Obviously this was a defensive move to try to escape the shame in registering a site as ridiculous as this. McCain and Palin ARE A JOKE. OBVIOUSLY. This story hasn’t made it to the major media sources because it’s not even as incriminating as the things McCain and Palin say every single day. All I need to say is: “The fundementals of the economy are strong” - “I think the lack or regulation has been a major reason for the growth of the economy over the past 8 years” - McCain
Could someone please explain what milf is / are ?
Is it some USA expression? Ciao!
Puzzled….MILF=mother i’d like to f*ck
[...] level. Until it was discovered yesterday that the McCain campaign owns voteforthemilf.com. The URL was purchased via the McCain campaign’s Go Daddy account. Furthermore, McCain’s camp is not denying [...]
[...] level. Until it was discovered yesterday that the McCain campaign owns voteforthemilf.com. The URL was purchased via the McCain campaign’s Go Daddy account. Furthermore, McCain’s camp is not denying ownership [...]
I saw it, we wrote about it before they changed the re-direct. http://www.medicineagency.com/blog/archives/3919
[...] 3rd, 2008 · No Comments I’m not sure what’s more disturbing - that the McCain campaign may own the URL for VotefortheMilf.com (via FDL, C&L, and initially dKos), or that running Palin is a direct appeal to the horny white [...]
A friendly suggestion: Tell the whole story at the top of the page in terms a non-specialist can understand. If you’d like some help with that, I’m an experienced writer whose specialty has long been the “translation” of complex subjects to everyday English. Feel free to contact me at the e-mail address I left with you.
My vote against it being a hoax is that most people getting the kind of traffic this thing seems to be getting (particularly since the scrutiny) would likely be redirecting to porn by this point, to capitalize on it.
[...] original WhoIs information can be clearly seen on the GovGap.com website - the domain name was original registered by JohnMcCain.com - McCain Palin [...]
[...] this story is essentially cynicism defined. But after all, it’s not hard to believe, since John [...]
[...] Meantime, though, just so’s you don’t feel cheated, take a look at this website, which is digging out the final answer to the question, Does John McCain’s campaign own votefortheMILF.com? [...]
Very intriguing work, folks.
Here’s a question: What role does Smartech Corporation (IP Address: 64.203.96.233) play in this?
One last note: The Donatelli Group
Via Sourcewatch (from cache as the page says it has too many connections):
“”When New York Senate candidate Rudolph Giuliani began his campaign against First Lady Hillary Clinton, one of his first moves was to register as many domain names as possibly [sic] that related to both himself and his opponent.
“Buying up Internet names that ‘belong’ to someone else is a recent trend that Martin Edlund of Hockaday Donatelli Campaign Solutions says is ‘a precautionary move.’ The campaign fundraising firm was responsible for managing Giuliani’s web presence. ‘If we control the domain name, we can decide who uses it. If we don’t, anyone can’,” Edlund said. [14]
The domain name HILLARYNO.COM, for example, has been registered to Hockaday-Donatelli Campaign Solutions since March 17, 1999, and is due to expire (unless renewed) on March 17, 2008, and HILLARYNO.ORG was secured October 16, 2002, and likewise is due to expire March 17, 2008.”
Just trying to help
[...] curious linkage was first discovered by GovGap. As you can see at Network Solutions, the “voteforthemilf” domain was created on Aug. [...]
My question is…who would be typing in that URL anyway?
You’d have to know to look for it so isn’t the fact we’re all talking about it the REAL goal of the McCain clan? Stop giving them attention!
I couldn’t go to the .com, but I did go to the .net and .org before they were changed
[...] even looks like the McCain campaign owns the domain “voteforthemilf dot com,” registered at the same time McCain picked Palin as his running mate. (Check it out: [...]
[...] more about it here [...]
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[...] and a video showing the website’s original redirect to johnmcvcain.com - is available at govgap.com, which originally broke the [...]
[...] break from the serious talk - check this out: John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? | GOVGAP __________________ — Jody S/V "Hello Gorgeous" - 1983, Barberis Show 38! [...]