Andrew Hyde lives in Boulder, Colorado and travels frequently.

The Darkside of Change.gov

Change.govI love change.gov.  It has Intense Debate (a 2007 TechStars team) commenting and even has support for OpenID.

Thinking about it the other day, we just opened up a really dark movement.

Something I am scared of.  More scared that the thought of Seth Godin writing another book.  More horrified than Pailin 2012.

Governmental vanity domains.

Just think of all the fun that can be had with wedge issues + .gov

The political ramifications are endless:

  • cuttingpork.gov would have been John McCain’s policy center
  • hope.gov would have been a live stream of the puppy channel
  • fascist.gov would be airings of the History Channel
  • alaskas.gov would be Sarah Pailin’s wikipedia portal
  • buyobamasseatfromIL.gov for the everyman’s extortion campaign

We have to consider the lameness of:

  • prochoice.gov
  • prolife.gov
  • nra.gov
  • luv.ur.gov
  • eatyourvegetables.gov
  • propaganda.gov

But there are some I would love to see:

  • peace.gov
  • together.gov
  • design.gov
  • flyingshouldsuckless.gov

Please, let’s just keep it to change, .gov.

(thanks to Jeremy for some of the juicier ideas.)

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5 responses to “The Darkside of Change.gov”

  1. ntalbott Avatar
    ntalbott

    Excellent! I bet Ron Paul could've made good use of 'less.gov' 🙂

  2. Grant Avatar
    Grant

    I could be totally wrong, but I'll throw this out there: I think you have to have some level of government approval to use a .gov extension. It doesn't mean they can't be abused, but at least someone running a campaign or non-prof can't just jump on GoDaddy (shudder) and register them.

  3. Angelena Peter Avatar
    Angelena Peter

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    Angelena Peter

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  5. Angelena Peter Avatar
    Angelena Peter

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