Proves that as long as there’s news, there will be domain registrations — Clint Eastwood

Dozens of domain names registered regarding…a chair.

Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention last Thursday gave 24 hour news networks and election watchers something to talk regarding for the next few days.

And it once again showed that when there’s news, there will be domain name registrations.

On the evening of Eastwood’s speech, in which he pretended Barack Obama was sitting in an empty chair next to him on stage, a California man jumped on Go Daddy and registered emptychairobama.com (along with the hyphenated version).

The next day a flood of “empty chair” registrations were made:

clintschair.com
emptychairparty.com
emptychairtv.com
officialemptychair.com
presidentialchair.com
talkedtothechair.com
talkingtothechair.com
talktothechair.com
theofficialemptychair.com
voteforthechair.com
votechair.com
eastwoodschair.com
invisibleobamachair.com
keepthechair.com
obamaemptychair.com
obamaschair.com
clinteastwoodschair.com
debatethechair.com

News of the speech continued to make the rounds the following day. Here are registrations from September 1:

Fill-The-Chair.com
FilltheChair.com
Chair2016.com
TheChair2012.com
TheChairForPresident.com
ObamasEmptyChair.com
ObamaTheEmptyChair.com
Chair4President.com
EastwoodChair2012.com
EastwoodChairs.com
WestwoodChair.com
EmptyChair2012.com
RepealObamChair.com

Of course, the simplest domain regarding the now infamous chair was registered long ago.

Who would have thought that domain names regarding chairs would become so popular?