McCain Campaign Possibly Owns Voteforthemilf.com?

[applexcore]

Some people are saying that they think they do. I won't paraphrase all the reasons of why they think that, since theres a lot of reasons (including the redirects), so just go to the link. Theres pictures and videos:

http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/

[brooklynite]

1. Owned by a Domain Mill per WHOIS

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

[applexcore]

2. Anyone good on redirects?

When you go Voteforthemilf.com you're redirected to JohnMcCain.com. From there, you're THEN redirected to JohnMcCain.com/palin.htm. (Try it for yourself. You'll see that you're redirected twice if you watch the address bar)

When it redirects to McCain's website the first time, Voteforthemilf.com would lose all control on any code that executed after that. So, it would leave me to believe that McCain's website has to be monitoring the incoming redirects ("listening") and then transfers them to the johnmccain.com/palin.htm


Does anyone who knows more about this than me have a plausible explanation other than that?

[skipos]

3. I'd like to know this too. nt

[mohc]

4. Does not look like there is a relation

The first redirect is a standard HTTP redirect, so whomever hosts voteforthemilf.com is purposefully directing their traffic to johnmccain.com. The redirect to the palin page is done via javascript, the relevant code below:

if(get_cookie("Splash") == "" && get_cookie("ActiveTS") == "")
{
writeSessionCookie("Splash", "redirected");
var qsIndex = window.location.search.indexOf('?');
var qs = "";
if(qsIndex!=-1)
qs = window.location.search.substring(qsIndex, window.location.search.length);
window.location="http://www.johnmccain.com/palin.htm"+qs;
}

Basically it will redirect you to the palin.htm page if you have neither a "Splash" or "ActiveTS" cookie. Deleting these cookies and going directly to the johnmccain home page without going to the voteforthemilf page causes the same redirect to palin.htm.