Friday, June 29, 2007

Of course Bloomberg is totally looking into running for president!

Back in 2002, Bloomberg's camp used the domain register Register.com's Account Masking service (which protects the identity of the actual registrant for $10/year) to register the following domains (which don't expire until October 29, 2008):

bloomberg2008.com
bloomberg2008.net
bloomberg2008.org
bloomberg2008.us
mikebloomberg2008.com
mikebloomberg2008.net
mikebloomberg2008.org
mikebloomberg2008.us
votebloomberg2008.com
votebloomberg2008.net
votebloomberg2008.org
votebloomberg2008.us
Last year, Bloomberg's camp snatched up democratsforbloomberg and demsforbloomberg domains, as well as newyorkersforbloomberg domains.

Those hoping to find clues to his sexuality will be disappointed to find out that the gaysforbloomberg domains were not registered by his camp. However, his camp registered womenforbloomberg domains shortly before the 2005 mayoral election (in October of that year) that are yet to be used (they do not expire until 2009). At the same time, bloombergforamerica, mikebloombergforpresident2008, yourpresidentbloomberg and bloombergforamerica domains were registered.

In 2003, bloomberg08, michaelrbloomberg08, and mikebloomberg08 domains were registered by (including .biz for the latter two, to appeal to business people?) his camp. The 2003 domains re-direct to his offical website michaelbloomberg.com.