Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller Acquires KeithOlbermann.com (Update)

wait what?

by Steve Krakauer | 9:15 am, July 15th, 2010

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The latest development in the battle between Tucker Carlson‘s The Daily Caller and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is a front-page headline announcing “We own you.”

That’s because, somehow, the “conservative answer to the Huffington Post” has acquired KeithOlbermann.com – and has some big plans for the new site.

In a post by “The Daily Caller,” the site announced the acquisition:

“We plan to make The Daily Caller the one-stop online shop for Keith Olbermann commentary,” said Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson. “We will be THE Keith Olbermann superstore.”

“This is part of our long-term growth strategy,” added Publisher and CEO Neil Patel. “Our future acquisition targets include several other annoying cable news commentators.”

As of now, KeithOlbermann.com re-directs back to the Daily Caller homepage (similar to our April 1 BeckCrunch.com launch). According to GoDaddy.com’s WHOIS search, KeithOlbermann.com is registered to DomainsByProxy.com (an Arizona company) and has been since 2004. It was last updated on July 12 however, which may have been a sign of when the deal between the registrant and Daily Caller was reached.

It’s surprising that in this new media world – where Keith Olbermann is the Twitter.com/KeithOlbermann feed – he, or a representative of him, doesn’t personally own his own namesake online. On a smaller scale, he doesn’t have the Facebook.com/KeithOlbermann URL squatted either – some guy John Paul DeVerna does.

Expect an Olbermann response soon to Carlson, his former colleague at MSNBC, and Daily Caller.

> Update: Responses, responses. Olbermann tweets:

Regarding @TheDailyCaller and Keitholbermann.com: I hope whoever sold it to them got CASH.

Also regarding @TheDailyCaller and KeithOlbermann.com – the law’s pretty clear on this, so, nice waste of money, Tuckie. #p2 #tcot

Tuckie! So does this mean he’s planning to sue?

Meanwhile, “Tuckie” tells The Upshot’s Michael Calderone, “I woke up this morning with a smile on my face,” and that he plans to use the email address Keith@KeithOlbermann.com.

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timzank

Olbermann isn’t smart enough to down play this, he’ll run with it. and it’ll backfire all over. Nice move by Carlson, it’ll make Olby frickin’ explode.
MichelleF

For a good time, visit:

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/
Latin2

I wonder how long it will take for Obly to appear on here and ‘defend’ himself…lol
MichelleF

Just to get you started on olbywatch:

Keith ‘We Correct Our Mistakes’ Olbermann Doesn’t

Remember when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann absurdly claimed: “I have never knowingly reported anything false and we correct our mistakes.”

Yeah, right. We reported how Rip ‘n’ Read Olbermann lifted bogus stats from his blue blog source, Think Propaganda. And how Politifact nailed him on his falsehoods. On Friday we rashly predicted Oralmann would make the correction, but hey–it’s Olbermann. What were we thinking? Of course he boasted that he would do the right thing:

Politifact is absolutely right & we will correct tonight.
But Friday night’s Hour of Spin came and went and…well, we didn’t notice any correction. So we checked the MSNBC transcript and…well, we didn’t notice any correction.

Is this so? Is Keith Olbermann really such an insecure wuss that he can’t even admit when he’s wrong? When he lifts talking points from an internet website and doesn’t bother to check them before broadcasting them as “news”? C’mon Keith, man up. Grow a pair. Keep your word.
Latin2

…he is Mr. Thin Skin…well I guess that will happen when you are a “BATH TUB BOY” your skin gets all loose.
Snipzor

That’s a little obsessive there, Tucker.
http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

Hilarious… this is gonna be fun.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

Oh Michelle f Olbermann Watch is a site for those like Mike Chimeri who have a man crush on Olbermann and its facts are supplied by Mark Koldys a Fox News employee and Bob Cox two known liars. Tucker Carlson buying the site is like a child taking a ball from someone on the playground and saying “Mine Mine Mine” which is pretty much typical of the Conservative movement.
kath724

Both Olbermann and Carlson are pathetic—-they’re acting like children.
sarainitaly

“I hope whoever sold it to them got CASH”

I heard they got it for a buck 99.
roxsteady

Hey Tucker, Jon Stewart says hi! What a pathetic tool this guy is. I guess he’s at least smart enough to use the name of someone more popular than himself. And what does Tucker think people will do when they are redirected to his DailyCaller page? They’ll hit that close button in the top right hand corner of their screen. The fact is none of us Olbermann fans use keithOlbermann.com. We’ve got Countdown with Keith Olbermann bookmarked.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

“I hope whoever sold it to them got CASH”

I heard they got it for a buck 99.

Which is about $1.98 more than you get for SarahPalin.com, you couldn’t give that name away.
Pablo

roxsteady said:
The fact is none of us Olbermann fans use keithOlbermann.com.

Genius of you to have figured out that he doesn’t own it.
m

This is incredibly childish by Carlson.
MichelleF

The fact is none of us Olbermann fans use keithOlbermann.com. We’ve got Countdown with Keith Olbermann bookmarked.

That explains your contant moronic comments.
http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

Childish and awesome.

MichelleF: not the best c&p from Olbermann Watch as they got that particular story totally wrong – Olbermann made his correction Friday but the transcript never made it to msnbc.com, and apparently nobody at olbermannwatch.com – I’ll chuckle here – actually watched the Friday show, so they missed it.

To their credit, when presented with evidence that they WERE wrong, they fessed up and made THEIR apologies. See http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2010/07/day_four_of_kei.php

Any ideas on which “law” Keith thinks will save him here? Domain names have always been first come, first served/sold to Tucker Carlson.
http://www.uselessbeauty.com Vidiot

Seems like a waste of money by the Daily Caller indeed. Apparently no one there has read ICANN’s dispute resolution policy. No way will this survive UDRP review.
MichelleF

Thanks for correcting me CRZ. I’m not a daily follower of olbermannwatch, but I need to make the time.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

I think this is what is called “political justice’. KOKO, the man in the moon is owned by Carlson. More than a chuckle!!!
Mr B

This is priceless.

Standing ovation DC. Standing ovation.
mproust

Don’t you wish Mediaite has a modicum of wit?
Jelperman

So Tucker Carlson’s career now revolves around cyber-squatting?
http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

Vidiot said:
Seems like a waste of money by the Daily Caller indeed. Apparently no one there has read ICANN’s dispute resolution policy. No way will this survive UDRP review.

I don’t see it, Vidiot. In order to get a decision, KO would have to prove that all three criteria have been met as laid out in the UDRP:

http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/policy.htm#4a

Can’t the argument be made that DC DOES have “…legitimate interests in respect of the domain name…?”

It only has to fail to meet ONE of the criteria for the case to flunk.

If Olbermann were to pursue this, I would speculate that it would be HE wasting his money.
Jackie_Treehorn

CRZ said:
I don’t see it, Vidiot. In order to get a decision, KO would have to prove that all three criteria have been met as laid out in the UDRP:

http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/policy.htm#4a

Can’t the argument be made that DC DOES have “…legitimate interests in respect of the domain name…?”

It only has to fail to meet ONE of the criteria for the case to flunk.

If Olbermann were to pursue this, I would speculate that it would be HE wasting his money.

While both Olbermann and Carlson are both jackasses of the highest form, how do you figure Olbermann won’t win?

Case is cut and dry, Olbermann will have the domain within the month.
DrFunke

I am not sure that Tucker realizes what a douchebag he sounds like getting excited at this

It really isn’t that big a win on anything
chatmandu002

The uber-meister of spin and deceit (Olbermann) is so pissed off about this it makes my heart jump for joy.
chatmandu002

oh, that reminds me. Has anyone seen Joy? Tell her to call me……LMAO
jimw1016

Who truly cares?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Doane/1033397321 Brian Doane

http://bit.ly/409f6D – This is too funny! Have as much fun as you can, Tuckie! It won’t last long
LotusMan

Case is cut and dry, Olbermann will have the domain within the month.

Indeed. Tucker’s a childish jerk for even trying it. But then, he always has been.
jrcmi

Penis envy, “Tuckie”?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pascal-Pouliot/1046139433 Pascal Pouliot

Tucker! You were already pathetic as it is, why did you have to go even further? That’s like going to the nine circle of hell and looking around hoping to find the ten! Just how stupid does he have to be… to steal someone’s website for his own personal gaine!? And i did say steal because if Keith didn’t allow him to have his website, then we can say that he pretty much stole it! For my dick sake! Can someone tell him that he’s sounding like a freaking whore! And that freaking dickie bow if his is pissing me off! He reminds me of those damn rich prick who screwed up the economy!
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