Ownership rights to impeachbush.com sold on eBay earlier today for a cool $25,200. The new owner, first-time buyer azmo-bargain, is anonymous. The seller was another eBay unknown, somebody named Jody Denise. He or she registered the domain in May 1999 but never did a thing with it.
This gives me an idea. With the 2008 presidential race stepping up a notch this past week, I wondered: What’s available to the aspiring impeachment activist or politically-aware cybersquatter?
To answer this question, I ran a series of impeachX.com domain searches at Network Solutions. For the purposes of this exercise, I went off the list of legitimate candidates from Politics1.com (sorry, St. Michael Jesus Archangel). In the case of Sen. Clinton, I assumed any impeachclinton domains would be related to her impeached husband. Past a certain point, there were several domains for whom no candidates had any associated registrations: .tv, .ws, .bz, .de, .co.uk and .eu. Mostly to save column space, I have Photoshopped them into oblivion.
I then organized the list in descending order from the candidates nobody expects to be impeaching to the most likely candidates for impeachment starting in 2009. Where candidates had an equal number but different domains registered, I defaulted to NetSol’s order of premium-ness. All other ties were decided by the alphabet.
Without further ado, here is the complete list:
Alas, this doesn’t tell us who registered these sites or when, to say nothing of why. Which campaigns were already wise to domain-hoarding? Who do the speculators like? Are any of these sites unrelated to 2008? Are any of them even active? I’ll try to answer those questions later this weekend.
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