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Rick Perry’s dot.com Problem

Rick Perry’s dot.com Problem

Republican presidential candidate could have easily gotten his .com domain name.

Rick PerryOver the weekend Texas governor Rick Perry confirmed what a lot of us by now knew: he’s running for president in 2012.

Perry’s official web site is RickPerry.org, which makes sense.

But unfortunately for Perry, he doesn’t own RickPerry.com. Even more unfortunate is that he could have easily purchased the domain name last year.

As I wrote in May of 2010, the domain name RickPerry.com had expired. The domain name was previously owned by an outfit called “campaignweb”, which had forwarded the domain to RickPerry.org.

Someone from Rick Perry’s office viewed the story I wrote regarding the expired domain. Yet they didn’t do anything regarding it. Instead, someone from Mexico registered the domain name. As stated by a Reglike reader, the buyer paid $2,100 to get the domain name in an expired domain auction at NameJet.

The domain name right now doesn’t resolve, but you can bet a lot of traffic is hitting it.

Photo from RickPerry.org.

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