POTUS, It's The New Vanity Plate

During this election season, I pondered the next person to take two years off of his job, receive full salary with benefits and take another job funded by gobs of federal tax dollars - like, say, run for President of the United States of America. This in mind, I probed a popular domain registrar for a few names. It's kind of fun to think about when these domains were created and the possible ramifications.

Most of these domains are parked. This means someone purchased them and left them at the domain registrar. You can play this game too by going to, e.g., godaddy.com and typing in a name. They'll direct you to who registered the domain and its nameservers. If you find any interesting ones, leave a comment or email me and I'll add it to the table.

domain (.com)	date created
jebbush	19-Nov-97
hillaryclinton	22-Oct-01
hillaryrodhamclinton	29-Jun-04 ... just missed
colinlpowell	23-Apr-04 ...recent, hmmm
colinpowell	28-Oct-97
robertreich	29-Jun-03 (4'10" - too short - although not as swarthy as Dukakis)
johnashcroft	15-Feb-04

By the way, POTUS is a pretty cool site.