Ultimate HypoTypo

[Promediary]

So there he was, before an estimated national debate audience of 30 million or so voters, disputing VP candidate John Edwards' claims about VP Cheney's former role as CEO of Halliburton. Cheney rebutted, then urged viewers to seek the truth at factcheck.com, a website sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, to get details on Halliburton payments.

Problem is, Cheney drove millions of Internet users to the wrong site! He meant to say factcheck.ORG.

Wait 'till you see what greeted the American public at Factcheck.com!!! :cheeky:

Truly, one of the great gaffes in the history of presidential campaigns.

... which raises an interesting parenthetical thought. Think Cheney told Bush "Iraq" when he meant to say "Iran"?

 

[GT Web]

wow...that is really, really funny....

 

[Promediary]

Name Admin is the undisputed winner of Cheney-Edwards debate! :cheeky:

It appears that Name Admin, described by Moscow's MOSNEWS as "a cyberquatting company", is the fact-acting beneficiary of VP Cheney's debate gaffe.

FactCheck.com is registered to Name Admin and, according to MOSNEWS, "Immediately after Cheney’s erroneous statement, Soros’s spin doctors rented the factcheck.com web-site from the Domain Name Sales Corp. registered on the Cayman Islands and redirected all visitors to the already existing web-site www.georgesoros.com. The price paid for the name was not disclosed."

According to this morning's Wall Street Journal, Chris Suellentrop of Slate.com posted a similar observation: "Soros capitalized on Cheney's error, snatched up the URL, and now if you type "factcheck.com" into your browser, you get redirected to a page titled, "Why we must not re-elect President Bush: a personal message from George Soros."

It's hard to imagine that the deal went down quite that quickly, but I suppose it's possible. In either event, the folks at Name Admin must've made a killing on this short-term lease. And it further appears that George Soros didn't become a gazillionaire by waiting for the sun to rise.

 

[Prosperous]

Brilliant!! :-D

FactCheck.org btw currently shows (me) this, which does not help 'em much:

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------

Server Too Busy
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +148

 

[Jack Gordon]

I love it!

 

[peter]

excellent!

 

[cyphix]

Hahahahaha.. that's gold!

 

[Domainut]

"There are some thing money can't buy"

 

[Jack Gordon]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20041006/ap_on_el_pr/debate_web_sites

Go John!

The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits — about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.

"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.

They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money.

 

[GT Web]

wow, great job Mr. Berryhill

 

[HHH]

IMO - This also goes to show that if it's not .COM - it's last.

 

[Steen]

And what's Mole got to say about that?

 

[seeker]

excellent!!!

this is amazing.

 

[Promediary]

While this remains an incredibly amusing and memorable event in the brief history of domains and presidential politics, it didn't go down quite as first reported. Turns out Soros didn't lease the domain after all. Name Admin simply pointed it to Soros page, in protest, after their server was bombarded with traffic resulting from VP Cheney's the debate gaffe. Still, the story of this event grew legs quickly and became yesterday's global chuckle of the day.

IN RELATED NEWS, Florida Governor Jeb Bush released a preview of the state's new online election ballot, which will allow Florida residents to bypass the polls on November 2nd and vote in the comfort of their homes and ofices.

** CLICK HERE to preview the ballot **