I guess US elections are a lot more controversial than Canadian elections in terms of generated drama. Today I was using Twitter and upon logging in I saw this link on the top header of the page:
Recently the site decided to display topics that are hot surrounding the US elections campaign and as you can see there was this keyword of “VoteForTheMILF†on it which was very weird. Evidently, there is this domain VoteForTheMILF.com that redirected to the site johnmccain.com and so some people are trying to associate that John McCain owns it.
People must love drama and speculation to even think that would be the case I thought. This is one of those things I thought where with a little bit of technical knowledge you can pretty much determine its legitimacy.
In general, by looking at the Internet registries the domain voteforthemilf.com was registered anonymously and it simply redirects you to a site of the owner’s choice. People usually call this a “Domain Forwarding†feature. An often dead giveaway is to look at the domain server info as you can see here:
For myself, I know that people who register their domains with Godaddy who have a “domaincontrol.com†in that detail often indicates that the domain simply redirects to another. Take the actual johnmccain.com site on the other hand as seen here:
As you can see, the domain server is a bit more unique as there is an actual site and is using an actual web host for it. As of writing this, I notice that the voteforthemilf site now redirects to Google. People can start speculating that Google owns the domain now huh?
I’ve seen this done any times even from a general business point of view where people use this as a way to garner/inflict unwanted attention. So, hopefully this will help educate people a little bit before going on labeling spree. Now I’m just waiting for something like this to happen in the Canadian elections.