Being a web host myself I'm not buying this story that Jieberman's site was hacked story. His site has been down far too long for that excuse. Unless he is totally incompetent all you have to do is restore from backups and put it back online. If someone hacked any site on my servers it would take me less that 10 minutes to restore.
The other version, that he didn't pay his bill is more likely. Many vendors get stiffed by politicians during elections. If the vendor wasn't paid and thought he was going to get screwed then he might pull the site. There are blogs out there that captured the original message that his site was pulled for not paying his bill.
Lieberman's accusation that he seems to know that Lamont did it is just an election day ploy. Even if he were hacked, how whould he know who did it?
The WHOIS data on the joe2006.com site is interesting.
Friends of Joe Lieberman
P.O. Box 231294
Hartford, CT 06123
US
Domain Name: JOE2006.COM
Administrative Contact:
Diana Fassbender fassbenderdw@yahoo.com
Friends of Joe Lieberman
P.O. Box 231294
Hartford, ct 06123
US
Phone: 203-449-7365
Fax:
Technical Contact:
Domain Administrator hostmaster@securesites.com
Friends of Joe Lieberman
PO Box 3895
Englewood, CO 80155
US
Phone: +180.14370220
Fax:
Billing Contact:
Diana Fassbender fassbenderdw@yahoo.com
Friends of Joe Lieberman
P.O. Box 231294
Hartford, ct 06123
US
Phone: 203-449-7365
Fax:
Record updated on 2005-09-03 13:33:00
Record created on 2002-06-23
Record expires on 2007-06-23
Database last updated on 2006-08-08 16:23:29 EST
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.THEPLANET.COM 207.44.128.228,207.44.128.229,70.86.61.133,70.86.61.134,70.87.7.70,70.87.7.71
NS2.THEPLANET.COM 207.44.128.230,207.44.128.231,70.86.61.135,70.86.61.136,70.87.7.72,70.87.7.73
TransferGuard LOCK Status => DISABLED
Notice the transfer lock as disabled. That's just a little sloppy for a political candidate.
Posted by marc at August 8, 2006 12:25 PM