David Frum domain-squatted

David Frum recently left NRO (see New York Times story, seeded here, and Frum's NRO blog), not long after Chris Buckley's departure and endorsement of Barack Obama.

He announced the upcoming group blog New Majority, which is scheduled to go online over Inauguration Weekend:

I want to assist in that conversation. Starting over Inauguration Weekend, I'll be launching a new website, NewMajority.com. It will be a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them identify as conservatives or Republicans. But they - and people like them - are the people conservatives and Republicans need.

but alas, seems that he either did not check whether the domain is available, or perhaps Frum is aware that the domain name is not available, but decided to announce the URL anyway before securing the rights to it?

Here is the WHOIS entry:

Domain Name: NEWMAJORITY.COM

Created: 2004-11-08
Expires: 2009-11-08

Nameservers:

THIS-DOMAIN-FOR-SALE.COM
NS.BUYDOMAINS.COM

(HTML junk here, advertising the domain squatter's "services". If you think HTML spam mail is bad, try "whois newmajority.com"!)

Registrant:

NEWMAJORITY.COM
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW #106-190
Washington, DC 20016-2143

Administrative Contact:

NEWMAJORITY.COM
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW #106-190
Washington, DC 20016-2143

Voice:+1 +1.781 839 7993
Fax:+1 +1.781 839 2801
E-mail:brokerage@buydomains.com

Technical Contact:

NEWMAJORITY.COM
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW #106-190
Washington, DC 20016-2143

Voice:+1 +1.781 839 7993
E-mail:brokerage@buydomains.com

Billing Contact:

NEWMAJORITY.COM
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW #106-190
Washington, DC 20016-2143

Voice:+1 +1.781 839 7993
E-mail:brokerage@buydomains.com

One wonders whether the general lack of web-savviness among US conservatives is a reflection of the flight of younger generations from it, or something else entirely. It's not that long ago that blogs such as Meghan McCain's did not have RSS feeds. Ann Coulter still did not have one.

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