Say thanks to Jake and godaddy. Today typing www.bostonist.com into firefox works. Well, ok, maybe it tells you it is a placeholder for parisist…but bostonist is sure those kinks will get worked out. Poor Tom Reilly (state attorney general, a democrat) may not be as fortunate to be master of his domain. Tim O’Brien, leader of the state Republican Party, registered several websites last Wednesday (like reillyforgovernor.com). This move seems a little underhanded, a little sneaky, and pretty much just no good. What do they think they’re going to get out of this? Is the Vice President going to tell the entire nation to visit www.FactCheck.com (he meant .org)? Oh right, that did happen. And anyone who visited got to know a little bit more about the pro-Kerry billionaire George Soros.
Bostonist is pretty sure this will be a one-day scandal of sorts whirling around these domain registrations. Reilly hasn’t officially put his hat in the ring (for governor, not to fight Hilary Swank). There has been noise of creating a law that would make it illegal to operate a website under someone else’s name, does that mean we won't be able to go to whitehouse.net anymore either? Perhaps a little tip is helpful: It’s nearly impossible to govern the internet.
And yeah, thanks Jake and GoDaddy for saving Bostonist a little piece of cyberspace. Master of our domain.
add to digg
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
