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October 27, 2004

Georgebush.com Not Viewable from UK?

Here’s what I get when I try to access www.georgebush.com from London:

Access Denied

You don’t have permission to access “http://www.georgewbush.com/” on this server.

And it’s not just me, as you can see from a comment in this thread at Electrolite. Oh, and others have noticed this too, all around the world.

Could it be connected to this ?

Posted by Michael : October 27, 2004 12:04 PM | Politics: US: 2004 Election | TechnoLinks

Slashdot It!

Comments

Hmm...still working here in the States. Seems to me this would suggest a foreign DOS attack was most likely the root of the problem...or, not to be a cynic, but maybe they just don't have the bandwidth they oughta, and they feel like blaming Democrats for it...but it seems like you and everyone else are getting 403's, not 404's. As in this is an intentional cutoff of non US readers of the site...

Posted by: Christopher Chopin at October 27, 2004 12:36 PM

BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3958665.stm

Posted by: Dave M at October 27, 2004 12:51 PM

Try grabbing their IP number or dropping the www.

Posted by: Adam at October 27, 2004 01:31 PM

Try grabbing their IP number or dropping the www.

Posted by: Adam at October 27, 2004 01:34 PM

"Hacked By Chinese!"?

Posted by: Barry Freed at October 27, 2004 03:33 PM

Hi,

I noticed it too from the Netherlands. Netcraft has some additional info on this: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/26/bush_campaign_web_site_rejects_nonus_visitors.html

Posted by: Ton Zijlstra at October 28, 2004 07:53 AM

Now, the loopholes origin.georgewbush.com, georgewbush.com, 65.172.163.222 and https are closed as well.

Posted by: Alexander at October 28, 2004 03:32 PM

I been having the same problems here in Finland I am over here for work this past month and will be here another month and I am from the states, and all the GeorgeBush url or any thing that has his name in it is blocked but you can get to the John Kerry sites with no problems... sounds like someone does not want us to get to the sites we want to get to. It still not changing my vote for George Bush.

Posted by: Rich Macbeth at October 29, 2004 06:06 AM

I have the same problem here in Sweden !?

Posted by: Milutin at October 30, 2004 06:41 PM