Both presidential campaigns are releasing attack websites.
Today, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a website blasting Donald Trump’s business history at ArtOfTheSteal.biz.
Yes, that’s a .biz.
The .com ArtOfTheSteal.com is taken, and you can bet the owner is getting a ton of traffic today. (Unfortunately for misguided web surfers, the domain is forwarding through zero click to a scam page.)
Was it smart of the Clinton campaign to go with the .biz?
I guess “biz” is the correct connotation here since the site attack’s Trumps business acumen. But I imagine Donuts CEO Paul Stahura was fuming today about how his company’s .exposed domain was tailor made for sites like this.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting that Trump’s team is responding with LyingCrookedHillary.com.
It may plan to respond with a site at this domain, but the domain was actually registered before Artofthesteal.biz, way back on June 3.
The domain uses whois privacy. I would say the campaign made a mistake by not also picking up crookedlyinghillary.com, but that domain was also registered under privacy on June 3 at Godaddy, so I suspect the Trump campaign also owns it.
CrookedHillary.com was registered in April.
Has one of the campaigns won with their domain name strategies around attack sites? I’m not sure…but I bet there was some cheering over at Neustar’s HQ today. Neustar runs .biz.
“.exposed” actually exists?
Unreal.
That was my same reaction to the .Biz! Seriously, who actually uses one of those? For that matter, who would use anything but a tried and true .Com?
Me, and I do, because a few of the new TLDs are very likable for an end user. But many of them are laughable at best, or cryable. “.Exposed” is really stretching it except for a small # of uses that make it not worth the effort and cost of bringing the TLD to market under the current system imo.
And I’d use one of the few best new TLDs a million times sooner than a .biz.
That would be I.
I use something other than “a tried and true .com”
I hear tell that there are in fact a vast number of people who don’t use .com fairly successfully
🙂
MyPillow.com ought to switch to .Biz, because the awful reviews for their shoddy product are punching holes in .Coms seal of credibility.
Thousands of unsatisfied customers are getting a bad night of sleep and waking up with a stiff neck while that commercial repeats over and over again… “For the Best Night Sleep in the Whole Wide World Visit MyPillow dot Com.”