04.24.06
President Ma on the web
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has not declared his intention to run in the 2008 presidential election, but a “President Ma” Web site has appeared on the Internet, chronicling his remarks and handicapping the election.
The interesting bit (for me at least) was the address of this website:
Now, you’ve got to admit that’s a good address: Simple, to the point, and easy to remember. (It’s also not cheap - costing around US$100 a year just for the name). Normally, a website would either be associated with a country (i.e. blahblahblah.com.tw for Taiwan) or international (something.com or .org). To get ‘president.ma’, the owners of this website have actually registered a name which is reserved for Morocco (.ma is short for Maroc, which is what French-speaking Morocco calls itself).
Ma Ying-jeou as President of Morocco? Seems a bit unlikely to me. Luckily Morocco is a monarchy, with a prime minister but no president, so they’re unlikely to call demanding their name back.
P.S. While I found this news slightly amusing, you’ve got to wonder what it’s doing on the front page of the Taipei Times. Slow news day, or just getting really desperate to find something to embarrass Ma with? No, don’t answer that one …
P.P.S. It is actually quite common for people to register web addresses with odd countries because it sounds good - for example Tuvalu has a little industry selling off ‘.tv’ to television companies.
Michael Turton said,
April 24, 2006 at 7:43 pm
ROFL. Good spot!
Michael
junoon said,
April 25, 2006 at 11:34 pm
lol! we dont need a president website here in Morocco, and that sounds good too, so why not…
more fun, the http://www.president.fr has nothing to do whith mr Chirac, it is devoted to camembert president, a frensh cheese… :p
STOP George said,
April 26, 2006 at 1:06 pm
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Interesting.
For” http://www.president.hu” (which is the URL prefix for hungary, btw) — you get:
Error Code: 403 Forbidden.
Makes sense, n’est pas?
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David said,
April 26, 2006 at 2:12 pm
heh. Unfortunately, no country has ‘.su’ - so I guess we’re hoping for Annette Lu to be the DPP candidate in 2008: ‘president.lu’ (Luxembourg) has the advantage that you could register it now and use ‘vice.president.lu’
Edit: Damn president.su is taken by a hotel! And of course while the DPP could try for president.yu, that domain name is phased out in 2008 because there’s no longer a Yugoslavia. Looks like a KMT victory in 2008 whichever way you look at it!
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http://www.presidentma.com is here
Come to visit
From 1974 to 1981, Ma Ying-jeou went to the US Harvard University. During his stay in USA, Ma Ying-jeou work as KMT regime undercover spy. Ma Ying-jeou took surveillance camera to record pro-democracy students activity. Then Ma Ying-jeou reported pro-democracy stuent’s name to KMT secret police most wanted list.
People on secret police list, will be arrested on their return to Taiwan. Some of them were brutally murdered. Dr. Chen Wen-chen, was an outspoken critic of the KMT regime and was found murdered on the campus of National Taiwan University in 1981. Many believed Dr. Chen Wen-chen was murdered by KMT secret police.
Ma Ying-jeou remained a staunch supporter of the repressive Kuomintang regime. The ruling Kuomintang secret service trained spy student to infiltrate pro-democracy student groups and to spy on others. Unfortunately, most of Taiwan people don’t know Ma Ying-jeou dark history, Ma Ying-jeou was elected as Taiwan president in year 2008. It is very sarcastic that a secret agent spy was elected as head of nation, bacause KMT regime controlled-media distort, deny, and delude regarding its secret service history.
After year 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou repeated violaions of human rights and supress pro-democracy activity. Duing President Ma Ying-jeou term of office, Ten armed police beat up unarmed old man. A large group of armed police brutally attacked unarmed Taiwan people. Still, President Ma Ying-jeou condemn police department did not do enough to dispel a peaceful demostration. In the mean time, President Ma Ying-jeou replace judges to unfairlly place predecessor ex-president Chen shui-bian into pre-trial detention. President Ma Ying-jeou hamper Judiciary court systems and repeated violaions of human rights.
http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2009/01/roc-judiciary-blasted-day-of-human.html
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