Apparently the McCain camp is so out of touch with the world of technology, that they've never heard of the website Who.is.
Who.is can tell you who registered a URL, on what date, and a bunch of other nifty information. So, clearly, when the McCain campaign registered the URL "www.voteforthemilf.com", they didn't really think that anyone would find out. Why else would they have been so careless and stupid?
Vote For The Milf automatically directs to John McCain's official website, www.johnmccain.com. However! It then directs to www.johnmccain.com/Palin.htm, which is a precious video of Sarah Palin addressing her fellow Americans and encouraging them to support the McCain-Palin ticket.
Curious, no?
What's also pretty curious are the following facts from GovCap.com:
- 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.
- Network Tools.com Trace Route:
- 64.203.107.149 (VoteForTheMILF.com)
- 64.203.107.149 (JohnMcCain.com)
Still an unbeliever? Check out this nifty little video:
**UPDATE**
For a complete list of all the website URLs that the RNC has claimed, please check out The Caucus blog over at the New York Times. The list is pretty unbelivable.
**UPDATE**
Vote For The MILF no longer redirects to John McCain's website! Bwahahaahahaaha.