wa-democrats.com

The WSDCC sent me a $74 check to cover my expenses trying to get wa-democrats.com. They even specified what the expenses were on the tear off, with $59 going to SnapNames and $15 going to DirectNic.com. Someone in that office pays attention!

Jim McIntire

Citizens for Jim McIntire sent me $30 today to renew the domain name for 2 more years.

46dems.org

I GOT IT BACK!!!

In 2003, when I was first getting involved in the party, I volunteered to help Scott White with the 46th district website. The webmaster at the time lost track of the domain name, 46dems.org, and we lost it to a squatter.

I got it back today. $15 well spent!

wa-democrats.com redirect now works

Yes! This was the goal. For the last few years, wa-democrats.com has redirected to the state Republican party. No longer. And I already own wa-democrats.net, and have it redirected to the Washington State Democratic Chairs Organization.

Transfer failed

Lessons learned. You usually have to wait 60 days before trying to transfer a domain after purchase, and at mydomains.com redirects require that the DNS entries be set locally. I fixed the DNS last night and I'll try the transfer again in December or January.

Deposit

From: Karen Marchioro Democratic Party History Project
Amount: $15
For: Domain name (wademhistory.org)

Betty Means and Jeff Smith are working on this project, trying to collect the history of the party before memories are lost to time. The Washington State Dems went through a lot of changes over the last 50 years, and time did not start in 2003 when Howard Dean ran for the nomination. Too many people think it did. :)

wa-democrats.com

I was able to get the domain from the squatter that had it redirected to the Washington State Republican Party, and I'm working on getting it transferred to my DirectNIC account so I can redirect it to wa-democrats.org, where it should have been from the beginning.

This cost me $59 for the domain, and $15 for the transfer between registrars.