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Who is running Change.gov?

As everyone probably knows by now, Change.gov the website of “The Office of the President-Elect” is having problems. It is evidently being overwhelmed by traffic. This morning it took me several tries before a page would load and the site delivered error messages instead.

The site also had a page of Agendas, which it has since removed and replaced with a singe page http://change.gov/agenda/ without any details.

Although the site is a dot-gov site, it says, “Content copyright © 2008 by Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization. All rights reserved.”

So, who is running the site? Why the lousy service? Why the scrubbing of agendas? Why the copyright?

Netcraft reports that the I.P. for Change.gov (69.25.74.162) is owned by Blue State Digital which also hosts the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

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