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I agree. The site does have it’s own domain name, so it is very likely that BirtherReport.com has some periodic bills to keep the site reachable; however, I suppose it’s unlikely that Blogspot has anything to do with BR’s paid account for domain name services. And it seems as though Blogspot/Google is the authority that has BirtherReport.com currently shutdown. Therefore, I doubt the outage is related to unpaid bills.

May it be possible that a spambot or other site hacking technique was successful in exploiting a vulnerability and depositing some form of malware that attempts to download itself to visitor’s browsers when to hit certain pages at birtherreport.com? I think that might be the more likely explanation. Also, that sort of an attack which turns a website into an unwitting purveyor of malware does not necessarily require a government plot or a precisely focused criminal conspiracy. There are plenty of bot programs that just crawl the web methodically looking for an exploitable opening to infest.

Also, it maybe that some of Blogspot’s content standards were violated by comments posted to the site or by advertisers.

In any case, I bet BR will get the problem cleaned up and get back online soon. In the meantime, ppsimmons, which is a more direct outlet (though lower profile) for Gallups (and then by extension, Zullo), is still online as of moments ago, so if this is a massive plot working against BirtherReport.com, we might expect to see the lights go out at PPSimmons. I, however, am guessing that won’t be the case.