A little research on PittsurghPothole.com

After reading Lady Elaine’s post about potholes I started thinking more about whether the pothole website was motivated by the upcoming election or if this was just part of an ongoing effort to improve communications with city residents. I read committeegrrl’s post last week about potholes and my first reaction was that she was really reading too much into the whole issue.  I decided to look up the history on the domain PittsburghPothole.com –  the domain was registered on Febrauary 26, 2009.  Which is pretty recent – if this pothole website was something that had been in the works for awhile – one would think that the domain would have been registered sooner.  The good news is it looks like they used Pittsburgh based Pair.net to register the domain.  

WHOIS information for: pittsburghpothole.com:

[whois.pairnic.com]
Registrant:
  City of Pittsburgh
  414 Grant St, Room 604
  City County Building
  Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  US

  linda.heidelberg@city.pittsburgh.pa.us
   +1.4122552152
   +1.4122552355

Domain Name: PITTSBURGHPOTHOLE.COM

Administrative & Technical Contact:
  City of Pittsburgh
  414 Grant St, Room 604
  City County Building
  Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  US

  linda.heidelberg@city.pittsburgh.pa.us
   +1.4122552152
   +1.4122552355

Domain Name Servers:
  NS4.PAIRNIC.COM
  NS3.PAIRNIC.COM

Transfer-Lock Status: ENABLED

 Created:     February 26, 2009
Modified:     February 26, 2009
 Expires:     February 26, 2014

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