Political Groups Race to Reserve Election-Relevant Domains

After the Bush election victory, both conservative and liberal political organizations raced to register domains containing names of potential Supreme Court nominees such as “confirm[nominee's name].com” or “support[nominee's name].com.

Conservatives registered these domains in an effort to drive traffic to the candidates actual website and to serve as a blog to promote their candidates.

Liberal groups, however, raced to snatch up domains in opposition to potential nominees such as ”oppose[nominee's name].com“ and ”stop[nominee's name].com“ while also registering domains in support in a combined effort to both get their message out and prevent the distribution of the other side's message.

An article on this subject by Jason McLure entitled ”High Court Vacancy Fight Rages Online - A dead-on race to reserve domain names" appeared in The Legal Times.