tony spencer » Domains http://www.tonyspencer.com It's Just Links Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Hillary for President? She’s Got the Domain for it http://www.tonyspencer.com/2006/04/01/hillary-for-president-shes-got-the-domain-for-it/ http://www.tonyspencer.com/2006/04/01/hillary-for-president-shes-got-the-domain-for-it/#comments Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:17:05 +0000 Tony http://www.tonyspencer.com/2006/04/01/hillary-for-president-shes-got-the-domain-for-it/ hillary
I can’t remember how I stumbled upon this but I was messing around with some WHOIS searches and discovered that Hillary Clinton has prepared herself for a possible presidential campaign in 2008. Although Hillary has publically stated that she is focusing on her senate re-election bid and not thinking of a presidential bid, she has secured the domain hillaryin2008.com.

The whois contact information on hillaryin2008.com is exactly the same as the whois contact for her current official domain hillaryclinton.com:

SIMMS, NOEL nsimms@cmdinet.com
4711 36TH ST N
ARLINGTON, VA 22207-4302
US
703 536 1719 fax: 123 123 1234

They’ve even covered the negative “Hillary Sucks” angle by securing hillarysucks.com

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if pagerank == 0
     score = 0
else
     score = backLinkCount
     score = score + eduCount * 50
     score = score + govCount * 50
     score = score + milCount * 50

     if domain is more than one year old
          score = score * 5 * yearsOld

     if domain is older than 2003 (my estimate for sandbox birth)
          score = score * 10

Crawl through your list of domains of interest, calculate the score, sort by score descending, and start buying!

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