One Website of Governor Luis Fortuño Expires and Opponents Take It Over

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Sep 11, 2012
10:41 AM

Yesterday, the website LuisFortuno.com, which used to be the official website of Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño's campaign in 2008, appears to have a new owner: Fortuño's major political opponent, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). The election for governor is this November, and the PPD is pulling no punches. Here is a screen grab of LuisFortuno.com, which shows that the page is now being sponsored by the PPD:

The following video is playing at LuisFortuno.com right now:

It appears from the history of the site that the Fortuño campaign allowed for the domain name to expire. Here is a screenshot of the site from this past May:

Here are screen shots from 2008 and 2007 when Fortuño was running for governor and used LuisFortuno.com as his campaign's main site:

Fortuño's official 2012 site is PorPuertoRico2012.com, but you would think that his campaign could have paid the little money you need to maintain the ownership of your actual name's URL. It's as if BarackObama.com or MittRomney.com expired and the opposing party was now controlling the content from the new site. Politics truly has become a digital battle. Now more than ever.

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