President Obama's new WhiteHouse.gov is live. There's his agenda, a blog (with no comments feature), RSS feeds, and more, including a promise to "publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it."
Who's hosting it? Akamai Technologies (AKAM), the market-leading content delivery network.
Web searches suggest Akamai hosted older editions of WhiteHouse.gov, too. But it looks like Obama's platform of "change" doesn't include Web hosts. Today's domain information:
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> www.whitehouse.gov
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34659
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.whitehouse.gov. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
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e2561.b.akamaiedge.net. 20 IN A 96.16.194.135
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
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;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.20.2#53(192.168.20.2)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 20 12:11:34 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 291
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