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April 3, 2008

Bush Library Loses Internet Home, Opening the Door to Pranksters

The George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation has found a brick-and-mortar home for the president’s library. But settling on an Internet home could be more problematic.

The foundation has let slip from its control the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com, according to an article Monday in The Dallas Morning News. It states that Illuminati Karate, a software and Web design company in Raleigh N.C., grabbed the name for less than $10, but it won’t say what it will do with the address.

Meanwhile, critics of the president have ownership of GeorgeWBushLibrary.org, and TheGeorgeWBushLibrary.com. According to the article, that leaves these sites available to the library foundation: GWBPresidentialLibrary.com, GWBPresidentialLibrary.org, and GeorgeWBushPresidentialLibrary.com—Andrea L. Foster

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1. I’m sure that within the hour someone will go and squat on those domains.

   — Marc    Apr 3, 04:52 PM    #

2. I think the invisible hand of the the market place will decree that George Bush owns whatever domain name he fancies and will also act to render invisible the Illuminati Karate.

   — Philip J Tramdack    Apr 4, 07:41 AM    #

3. Wow, is this a nonstory, or what? lmao

   I guess it’s just the educated classes’ “rebellious child” attitude toward the country’s head politician of the moment that seemed to them to give it some sort of (to the rest of us, creepy) frisson. Duh.

   — G D    Apr 4, 10:00 AM    #

4. Heck of a job, Bushies. Nice strategery. Maybe the Decider can take a minute out from riding his bike and making the pie higher for Halliburton to “use the Google” to search the “internets” for options.

   Naaaaah. That would require that he actually do something.

   — Ayse    Apr 4, 10:13 AM    #

5. I think the likely hijackers are all disgruntled SMU faculty!

   — Lee    Apr 4, 10:59 AM    #

6. Physicists have raised serious questions about whether, such a concentration of documented error will give rise to strangelets or super dense black holes, either of which might engulf the earth.

   — Richard Tabor Greene    Apr 4, 11:03 AM    #

7. This is why domains should cost $100+ each so that legitimate businesses will justify the expense while it would be cost prohibitive for squatters to grab large numbers of domains.

   — Jon    Apr 4, 11:50 AM    #

8. Suggested alternatives:

   FUBAR.com
   Decider.org
   MishunAkomplisht.net
   CheneyButtMonkey.gov

   I could go on all day…..

   — marci    Apr 4, 06:56 PM    #

9. Hmmm . . . then there’s jebs_dumber_bro.com

   But seriously, the original story says that the hackers stole W’s name plus “.com” and “.org.” What about “.gov”? Surely our government can provide a website for our soon-to-be-ex-Pres!

   — Phil Schwartz    Apr 7, 03:14 PM    #

10. Just what we need… another web site dedicated to the idiotic and mundane.

    — Mark Shain    May 5, 02:58 PM    #

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