Much as I hate to bang on about the purple people over at “Take Back Parliament” but just noticed something rather interesting the domains takebackparliament.com and takebackparliament.org were registered before the election.
Both domains were registered by Blue State Digitial on the 29th April as can be clearly seen from the whois data:
Domain Name: TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Name Server: NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM
Name Server: NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM
Updated Date: 03-may-2010
Creation Date: 29-apr-2010
Expiration Date: 29-apr-2011
Domain Name:TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.ORG
Created On:29-Apr-2010 15:47:07 UTC
Last Updated On:03-May-2010 16:42:03 UTC
Expiration Date:29-Apr-2011 15:47:07 UTC
Name Server:NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM
Name Server:NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM
Now of course it doesn’t hurt to be prepared, but I can’t help wonder just when Mark Ross (of Ekklesia who is also described as Head of Campaigns at Power2010 (thanks to Woman on a Raft)) first started talking to BSD and planning this campaign as websites such as the “Take back Parliament” campaign has don’t normally happen over night. The more I discover about this the less like grass roots and the more like astro turf the whole thing seems. But with first mover advantage taking back our voice from those behind “take Back Parliament” so that a genuine gras roots movement can emerge is going to be nigh on impossible.
