For Republicans, 'Benghazi' Is Premium Online Real Estate
TOM KLUDT – JULY 10, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
The Republican Party is now in the web domain name business, but certain slices of online real estate are too precious to sell for cheap.
The Republican State Leadership Committee went live this week with a plan that's been in the works for some time, inviting "candidates, elected officials, bloggers, volunteers, activists, companies and media organizations" to register domains ending with ".gop."
"This week, for the first time in history, a political party runs its own domain on the Internet," the announcement read.
It's also a milestone that's spawned plenty of trolling. As Gawker's Adam Weinstein highlighted, it didn't take long for pranksters on Twitter to check the availability of various domain names that are made particularly ridiculous with "GOP" appended to the URL.
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