The quest for power demands that no stone is left unturned – as the past weeks of manifesto pledges and party political broadcasts have shown us. One of the most innovative battlegrounds on which election wars are waged is digital, and recent weeks saw the .UK domain being used as a space in which to grasp every last avenue of political influence in the race for Number 10.
As the registry for the national namespace, we can see what new domains are being registered. By tagging our search for ‘elect’ during the weeks leading up to the election, we witnessed the upswing in domains using this in the title and being registered for political purposes. As to be expected, we also picked up a few false positives (mainly electricians setting up their websites), but we also caught a good amount of election-related activity and enjoyed something of a front row seat to the skirmishes in the run up to the vote.
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As the registry for the national namespace, we can see what new domains are being registered. By tagging our search for ‘elect’ during the weeks leading up to the election, we witnessed the upswing in domains using this in the title and being registered for political purposes. As to be expected, we also picked up a few false positives (mainly electricians setting up their websites), but we also caught a good amount of election-related activity and enjoyed something of a front row seat to the skirmishes in the run up to the vote.
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