Pizzagate.com Domain Name Was Created 3 Years Ago, August 21, 2013 ( pizzagate )

submitted by MrGodspeed

I just did a WhoIs on Pizzagate.com domain and found out that it was created 3 1/2 years ago, in 2013.

Domain Name: PIZZAGATE.COM

Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.

Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 9

Whois Server: whois.register.com

Referral URL: http://www.register.com

Name Server: NS1.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM

Name Server: NS2.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM

Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Updated Date: 06-dec-2016

Creation Date: 21-aug-2013

Expiration Date: 21-aug-2018

What I'm wondering is how someone purchased this specific domain more than 3 years prior to the term being used in its current form. The domain name just sat idle for 3 1/2 years. Then the person who owned the domain started getting used on Twitter.

The only other thing I can think of is that someone purchased the domain 4 years after the term pizza-gate was used when Obama had Pizza flown & brought into the white house 3 times, from St Louis, San Fransisco & Chicago ( see this Voat post ). But that seems really unlikely.

Did someone connected to Pizzagate purchase the Pizzagate.com domain?

karma101

Hmm ! Interesting. That's kinda odd isn't it ? Thank you.

SIMONBARROW

It's very odd. Isn't it possible to find out who created it and if it's for sale?

If you use the Wayback Machine, you find that the domain pizzagate.com existed between 2004 and 2008. It appears to have been a website for selling 'pizza restaurant software,' whatever that is, but there was never any real content on the archived pages. It doesn't look like a serious effort was made to sell anything from this site.

Millennial_Falcon

This is the answer. Probably some company buys up domains that someone might want to buy, based on news headlines (in this case, the soccer scandal).