{"id":6334,"date":"2013-11-05T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2013-11-05T03:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:10:50","slug":"%ce%bb%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bd%ce%af%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=6334","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">\u039b\u03b9\u03ba\u03bd\u03af\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I idly wondered what had happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">Dennis4President.com, the domain that had been used by the 2008 Presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dennis4president.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"91\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ; border: none ;\"\/><\/p> <p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">Dennis4President.com<\/a> now seems to be a Japanese site for men seeking to engage in <abbr title=\"compensated dating\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">\u63f4\u52a9\u4ea4\u969b<\/abbr> and for women seeking to engage in <abbr title=\"reverse compensated dating\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">\u9006\u63f4\u52a9\u4ea4\u969b<\/abbr>, which amount to the hiring of escorts, though the payment may be in the form of goods or of services, rather than cash. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dennis4president.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"79\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ; border: none ;\"\/><\/a><\/p> <p>(The Kucinich campaign shut-down their site some time on or after <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080423175002\/http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">23 April 2008<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080723185907\/http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">allowed their registration to lapse on 18 July 2008<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080911153213\/http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">The <abbr title=\"compensated dating\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">\u63f4\u52a9\u4ea4\u969b<\/abbr> site was up by 11 September 2008.<\/a>)<\/p> <p>I'm not sure why someone should think <q><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\">Dennis4President.com<\/a><\/q> to be a particularly good domain name for this enterprise. But, hey, sometimes all that we Westerners can do is shrug and say <q>Japan<\/q>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I idly wondered what had happened to Dennis4President.com, the domain that had been used by the 2008 Presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich. 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