Political candidate Trey Radel in the hot seat over domains

[Eric Lyon]

It's becoming more and more evident that politics and domainers don't mix in the eyes of the press. Trey Radel has been put in the hot seat down in Florida for being a domain investor prior to running for congress and possibly buying and selling a couple domain names of an adult nature in the 5 years he ran a domaining business.

Kinda funny how the press would target such things and exploit them in a way that makes him look like he's not congress material based on a few domain acquisitions. The domains they listed really aren't as bad as they make them sound.

Lesson to be learned: If you are a domainer that has bought at least 1 adult / gambling / proxy / hacker / or other questionable ethics names in the past, Don't run for political office, they WILL track all your domaining sales down and use them against you. lol

Congressional candidate Trey Radel faces another round of web-related controversy following disclosure that a now-defunct company he owned purchased several sexually explicit website domain names.

The domain names, mostly in Spanish, included “casadelasputas.com” (whorehouse), “cojoble.com”, a slang term defined as a woman who does not look good but is good enough to sleep with, and “mamadita.com” (hot babe), according to documents from a historical search service provided via the website Domain Tools.

Defunct domain names and sites can be hard to track down, but the information is still often available, as was the data on the domain names Radel owned.

Those documents show that the names were purchased by Radel’s company, Trey Enterprises, via GoDaddy, which registers website domains. Radel owned the company with his name from 2005 until it was dissolved in December, 2010.

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[Kate]

Domainer credentials are almost like a felon past who knew lol

 

[Dave_Z]

As if that wasn't bad enough:

In April Radel was caught up in another web-related matter when it was found his businesses had purchased domain names that used variations of his opponents’ names and their congressional campaigns. Those names were used to establish websites critical of the opponents, while first appearing to come from the candidates themselves.

He's got a looooooot of work ahead of him if he still wants to pursue this.

 

[grantatrade2011]

nice and good stuff

 

[DNNabber.com]

I'm guessing the most controversial of those would be Cojoble and not even the Urban Dictionary has that listed because it's so obscure.

As for Whorehouse, not even CBS (The Tiffany Network) Standards and Practices circa. 1989 would censor the word from one of their most successful mini-series of all time Lonesome Dove.

I do not get it?


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