Factcheck.who?
So, who is responsible for redirecting traffic from "Factcheck.com" (mistakenly touted by Cheney as the Source of Ultimate Truth re: Halliburton) to George Soros' Web site? A quick check of Register.com turns up this ownership info:
At the time of this posting, Factcheck.com is still redirecting to GeorgeSoros.com, but his site is down. Atrios says he has put up a response to all this, though (and as Josh Marshall points out in the post linked above, Soros and his people claim they had nothing to do with the redirect).
What I love most about all this is, though the Bushies try to use the Internet to lie and obfuscate, they are too old-fashioned, arrogant, and/or stupid to take the trouble to find out how it actually works, and thus they are easily undone in their efforts. Cheney couldn't even be bothered to understand the important difference between .com and .org, for God's sake (I'm not surprised he defaulted to ".com" instead of the non-proft ".org"). And remember when the WhiteHouse.gov Webmasters changed their robots.txt file to stop search engines from crawling the site, so Google, for example, wouldn't be able to index pages with things like "Mission Accomplished" on them that the administration might want to go back and change and leave no earlier record of? Yeah, nobody snapped to that, did they?
Update: Washington Monthly has more on the people behind factcheck.com (via the Wall Street Journal).
Registrant:So the domain name was purchased earlier this year by a company sufficiently cold-blooded to have decamped to the Grand Cayman Islands to avoid taxes. Hardly some left-wing subversive organization, methinks. Can anyone out there discern more about the owner from this information?
Name Administrationn Inc. (BVI)
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
Domain name: FACTCHECK.COM
Administrative Contact:
Domain, Administrator admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879
Technical Contact:
Domain, Administrator admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879
Registrar of record:DomainNameSales
Record last updated on 12-Sep-2004.
Record expires on 04-Feb-2007.
Record created on 04-Feb-2004.
Domains servers listed in order:
NS1.15X.NET 66.199.187.170
NS2.15X.NET 66.199.187.171
Domain status:
REGISTRAR-LOCK
At the time of this posting, Factcheck.com is still redirecting to GeorgeSoros.com, but his site is down. Atrios says he has put up a response to all this, though (and as Josh Marshall points out in the post linked above, Soros and his people claim they had nothing to do with the redirect).
What I love most about all this is, though the Bushies try to use the Internet to lie and obfuscate, they are too old-fashioned, arrogant, and/or stupid to take the trouble to find out how it actually works, and thus they are easily undone in their efforts. Cheney couldn't even be bothered to understand the important difference between .com and .org, for God's sake (I'm not surprised he defaulted to ".com" instead of the non-proft ".org"). And remember when the WhiteHouse.gov Webmasters changed their robots.txt file to stop search engines from crawling the site, so Google, for example, wouldn't be able to index pages with things like "Mission Accomplished" on them that the administration might want to go back and change and leave no earlier record of? Yeah, nobody snapped to that, did they?
Update: Washington Monthly has more on the people behind factcheck.com (via the Wall Street Journal).
posted by Susan @ 7:31 AM
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