RickPerry.com Now Redirects To Ron Paul's Official Website [UPDATE]

UPDATE: The redirect has been taken down. The site now goes to a more generic page.

PREVIOUSLY: RickPerry.com has long been inactive, but now it's serving a real purpose: driving traffic to Ron Paul's official campaign site.

It seems, as of today, the domain now redirects to RonPaul2012.com, suggesting the owner's true allegiances. But according to the National Journal, it wasn't the Paul campaign that was behind the switch. In fact, they're not even happy about it.

"The Paul campaign does not have anything to do with this and does not appreciate this sort of thing," Ron Paul's campaign spokesman Gary Howard told National Journal. "We are working now to resolve the issue."

The change was certainly recent, as Google results show little-to-no information about the switch.

A Whois search for the domain also yield's little, as the domain was registered through Fabulous.com, a domain hosting service that masks the true owner. The search does show that the domain was originally registered on May 5, 1998, but according to Domain Name Wire, at that time it did belong to Perry. When it expired on May 4, 2010, someone else may have picked it up.

The site was updated on December 4, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's when the change occurred.

This wouldn't be the first time a campaign failed to pick up a seemingly necessary domain either. Currently, visiting NewtGingrich.com shows a page that says the name is for sale, instead of Ginigrich's official site, Newt.org, suggesting he does not own it.

Comments

[PatRedstone]

04:26 PM on 03/29/2012

Perry's kids must have gotten ahold of his passwords...

[jimmcclarin]

10:10 AM on 12/08/2011

Paul's supporters are famous for campaigning on their own with their own literature, signs, and creative projects ranging from billboards and full-page newspaper ads to airplanes towing banners and even a huge blimp in his 2008 bid. One current example is a mailing showing up in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada that highlights Paul. It's being sent out as an independent project by his supporters, not by the Paul campaign. These mailings, dubbed the Super-Brochure, have the return address of the supporter that paid for the mailing to one or more precincts. Paul obviously excites his base like no other candidate.

[Dirk Hasselhoff]

09:27 PM on 12/07/2011

Savvy, very funny, but not very helpful.

Donate money, work the phones from your own home, register Republican if you haven't, aleve your political apathy in order to convert.

Let us all argue like they do in the House of Representatives.

The revolution continues...

[reason2012]

08:00 PM on 12/07/2011

Way to plug Newts website Huffington Post.

Its ok. We all know he is an insider criminal who took 1.8 million from Freddie Mac and accepted tens of millions from healthcare companies to support the individual mandate to buy healthcare or have it taken out of your taxes automatically.

One honest candidate.

Ron Paul 2012!

[Ohio Republican]

07:54 PM on 12/07/2011

"Currently, visiting NewtGingrich.com shows a page that says the name is for sale"

Actually, Newt Gingrich has been for sale for a couple decades now. I hear you can rent him by the hour for a mere $60K end he'll say anything you want.

[Jackson Baer]

07:33 PM on 12/07/2011

Even though I have problems with his foreign policy, I think I'm gonna vote for Ron Paul. He's the most consistent and fiscally responsible candidate by far. To all Republican voters: Please don't elect Newt... Please.

http://www.whatthehellbook.com/the-book/

[Ohio Republican]

07:56 PM on 12/07/2011

Funny. I think Paul is the best candidate also, but my problem is with his domestic policies. I have no problem with his foreign policies, but a big problem with dumping the dept of energy, dept of ed, EPA, etc, etc. What needs to be dumped are military contractors and an FDA / USDA that are nothing more than marketing arms of big corporations.

[piratesfan23]

08:14 PM on 12/07/2011

ohio republican:

read bastiat's "the law" if you have time but here ya go:

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

I know you are not a "socialist" - so excuse the word - but the point is...The government is wasting resources and doing a terrible job in those bureaucracies.

Especially in education: talk to a teacher some time about no child left behind or any other standardized policy that creates a vicious cycle of reciprocating class..

Leave policy the states and the people...unless you can prove that these giant bureaucracies have indeed accomplished their goals. Which the evidence would suggest it they haven't done anything but take your money and waste it.

[seatheworld1]

10:49 PM on 12/07/2011

He can only bring our troops home, the rest is up to congress, He is honest, and is not bought. Thats is all I need from a president

[piratesfan23]

08:20 PM on 12/07/2011

Ron Paul will be the best in foreign policy. He served in the air force and is loved by active military members.

If Iran or terrorists or the situations in the middle east scare you, that's fair game - but note that if we ever get attacked Ron Paul wouldn't hesitate to go to war...He would just have congress declare it as the constitution states.

Rather than waste our resources in 800 bases abroad, he would bring the troops home and strengthen our own borders which are pathetic.

Rather than fight prolonged, endless wars in Afghanistan or Iraq; he would bring the troops home and cut 1 trillion from the budget - giving us a healthier economy...because when your bankrupt its game over regardless of how many weapons you have. People cant eat weapons.

I understand your doubts; but if somethings broke - you gotta fix it...No one could be better for that then RP