Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06 (Score 2, Informative)

Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy!

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