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Organizing For Action Too unorganized to secure its own domain name.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 28th, 2013 at 09:00 PM  | 

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As God is my witness, I was trying to be nice about Obama for America / Organizing For America / Organizing For Action / Oafs [Flatulating] Around / whatever else it is that they’re calling themselves these days – anyway, I was trying to be nice about the fact that the latest iteration of the group was having trouble getting itself up and running, or even upright. Partially because even the best led group in the world can have tremendous difficulties with its launch (so imagine how much trouble OFA’s going to be in, organizationally speaking!) – and partially because the risk of karmic backlash was just too high for casual mockery. I’d need to have something special happen before I was prepared to point and laugh.

:pause:

This will do.

Obama supporters have developed a reputation for being tech savvy, but they may have dropped the ball on this one. Organizing for Action, the advocacy group founded to enable Obama 2012 campaign supporters to lobby lawmakers and the public on issues of importance to them, has failed to register its own domain name.

The result is that Organizingforaction.net, Organizingforaction.com and Organizingforaction.org have all been registered to some enterprising individuals who snapped up the domains on January 18, the day the news broke about the new group. The people listed as the contacts didn’t respond to e-mails asking them what they intend to do with domains.

Well, if they’re looking for suggestions for the domains then I have a few. Starting with “The new owners are going to eventually get the domains taken away from them anyway – probably without compensation – so they might as well try to maximize out the revenue stream from Day One.”

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • chipbennett

    Why bother with those domains? Clearly, they just intended to use the dot-gov TLD. It’s all one and the same with this administration, anyway.

  • http://twitter.com/TJexcite tjexcite

    They still are in shell shock that they won. All that is left are unpaid internes as the main people got new jobs and contracts that they can’t get out of yet.

  • checkmate2012

    I see arm braking ala Chi-town style, so yes, sell for a profit and darned if I didn’t think of it first…whah, whah, whah!

  • gawken

    “As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly…”..Les Nessman, WKRP

    (A nice riff on the opening line of your diary, Moe, and the “turkey” reference is oh so apt…)

  • mikwcas

    in the 90,000 pages of law and code i’m sure something can be found that these people have done that is illegal. then the parties responsible for this will be subjected to criminal action and prison time ala stupid mohamed movie maker, taker of fall for Benghazi that now is a matter of simply not caring why it happened. we live in strange times friends.

  • reggie1

    OFA is so generic that so long as they don’t offer content that can be construed for being the other OFA, they should be fine. But then, what’s the point. Maybe they could get away with satire?

  • tarandfeathers

    It was Arthur Carlson. Les was the one who said, “Oh my God, Johnny, they’re turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they’re plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!”

  • macbookben

    organisingfornication.com orangutanfraction.org orangeyougladyasaidbanana.com

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Well said. 5555555!