WIRED NEWS: Heavy Betting on Election Domains

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Heavy Betting on Election Domains

By Joanna Glasner

02:00 AM Jun. 21, 2004 PT

Brian Rodgers has no idea why the Bush campaign would let a domain as potentially valuable as Bush2004.com slip out of its grasp.

But since it did, Rodgers, a former resident of President George W. Bush's hometown of Midland, Texas, took the opportunity last fall to snap up the domain, along with identical dot-org and dot-net extensions, for $8,000.

Since then, Rodgers has received calls from Bush supporters who have offered to pay as much as $135,000 for the domains. He declined to sell, citing animosity toward the incumbent president as the chief reason.

"He's a sorry son of a bitch and I'll do anything I can to bring him down," said Rodgers, who now lives outside Austin and is using the domains to house a satire site poking fun at the president.

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1. Maybe

we should give him all the hits he can handle and move him up in the search engines!

[Devils Advocate NZ]

2. So is Bush going to say it again?

"There Ought to be Limits to Freedom!"
- George W. Bush, commenting on http://www.gwbush.com (05/21/1999)

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3. Lame

Selling the domain for 135K will leave this guy with 127K profit.

Then he can use this money to bring down the Chimp if he wants it so much.

One thing is for sure - in 6 months this domain will be worth just 10$