........"Also, a warning to Newt Gingrichs campaign: newtgingrich.com is currently for sale. His campaign, located at newt.org, might want to look into that."
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In Campaign 2012, Web sites are the new real estate ...."A Washington Post analysis of federal campaign spending reports shows that President Obama and Romney spent thousands of dollars this summer at GoDaddy.com."....The Perry campaign said it had not bought many domains; it reported no such expenditures in its campaign finance report filed last week.
The public is more interested in how the candidates can create jobs and improve the economy, not how many domain names you can rack up, Perry spokesman Mark Miner said. Were not running for student body council here. This is for president of the United States.
But Perrys opponents and other parties are buying up domains about Perry. In most cases, the addresses have not been put to use and lead to empty Web pages.
In several instances, anti-Perry domains were bought on the same dates that the Romney or Obama campaigns reported making transactions at GoDaddy.com, according to an analysis of online domain-registration records.
On Aug. 15, two days after Perry launched his campaign, Obamas campaign spent $3,958 at GoDaddy.com. At least 70 domains containing Perrys name were bought on the same date."...
I smell Karl Rove on this