If we may believe the polls, Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. The domain name market seems to follow the polls. There are much more names registered in which Obama’s name appears than names in which the name of McCain appears. So if it comes to registrations of new domain names Obama also seems more popular.
Some of the names were registred by the campaign teams of the candidates. Many other names are registred by political movements and merchandising sites. On other site you can see ironic and satirical sketches.
There are also many sites with violent, crash and sexually-related issues which have registered a name of candidate or running mate. Especially the names of Obama and Palin are abused.
Even though the names of the candidates and their running mates have been protected by their representatives as good as possible, the very obvious domain name www.sarahpalin.com has been taken by someone else. Yet an other example to show that you should protect the domain name that are important to you before it’s too late.