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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Snort RT @patrickruffini: OFA did not register OrganizingforAction.com domains before announcing the name. bit.ly/117lTzH

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 29, 2013