The Hill has an interesting article regarding the snapping up of 2008 related domain names.

With little more than two years until the 2008 presidential election, cybersquatters are prepped for the next presidential race. Many of the political domain names have been bought as investments with the intention of being sold to the potential presidential campaigns. Other buyers acquired the Web addresses to post endorsements or bash the presidential hopefuls. Either way, the cyberbrigade has hit almost all the presidential hopefuls.

Tom Vilsack, Democratic governor of Iowa, does not own tomvilsack.com. The owner, Eli, who did not want his full name to be published, has had the site for eight years but has not had any offers and would only sell the site to Vilsack, if the governor is interested. He is planning on making money off of Google advertisements ‘ which could generate $300 to $1,000 a month if it were a popular site, he said.

On second thought… Maybe I’ll just keep my $.99.