www.FightTheSmears.com

[yesthattom]

”It could easily wind up as the most important website of the campaign. It has simple, direct answers to a lot of the junk going around the Internet. If only John Kerry or Al Gore had had such pages.” -Andrew Tobias

www.FightTheSmears.com

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Why does it just redirect to http://www.barackobama.com/ ? A contentless website? Yeah, that'll really help.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

It doesn't redirect there for me. I goes to a site that rebutts the latest smears, let's me report new ones, etc.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's being fscking stupid with user agent tests or something? FF1.5 on RedHat redirected immediately, as does wget

% wget www.fightthesmears.com
--13:52:50--  http://www.fightthesmears.com/
Resolving www.fightthesmears.com... 216.146.206.181
Connecting to www.fightthesmears.com|216.146.206.181|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.barackobama.com/ [following]

Or maybe it's a DNS issue; have they recently changed to a new IP address?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Mine redirects to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

[sweh.livejournal.com]

OK, looks like they changed IP addresses.

Previously:
www.fightthesmears.com canonical name = factcheck.barackobama.com.
factcheck.barackobama.com canonical name = www1.barackobama.com.
Name: www1.barackobama.com
Address: 216.146.206.181


Now:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.fightthesmears.com
Address: 64.13.232.197


However the SOA on the record hasn't changed. Odd!

[isotopeblue.livejournal.com]

I had a "OK, that's nice" reaction when I heard about this, but the Tobias comment made me curious enough to look. I'm very impressed at the design. Now the trick is to get enough people to link to it to drive the Google rank up to the top. And also to make sure some really top flight (legit!) SEO people are working with the campaign.