Bob, could you point to where I describe this story as an Exclusive? Dizzy described it as that, not me. But I do think it raises some important issues, as I explain in my post. If you or your colleagues don't think they are worth bothering with I suspect there will be some red faces when the nice people from the Electoral Commission come a calling.

Just so you know Bob, the reason I put the word excluive on anything is in when I think I have (a) found something as yet reported anywhere, and (b) in the evin hope that should someone in the msm pick up on it they might be gracious enough to mention me.

Gypsy Rose Dale...LOL. WTF is a backend website, I am sure it has nothing to do with arse?

If only I had the time I would scroll back through Gipsy Rose Dale's predictions over the last year and list all of the nonsense speculation he has regaled us with.

This is actually an interesting point, I wonder how many blogs would hold up to this level of scrutiny?

V.poor indeed. It obviously makes sense to buy up domain names like that to stop jokers like the beloved Tim Ireland. (Although I see that BackingBrown.com is still available.)

Here's an exclusive in the same vain. The domain 'iaindale.com' is registered to an outfit that counts the 'not racist but' Anglosphere Institute among its clients (i.e. it has, by his own definition, a backend Iain Dale website up and running).

Iain, I've re-read what I wrote and as far as I can see I credited dizzy as having the 'exclusive', not you, so I'm not sure about the point you are making. dizzy indeed had an 'exclusive', which was that someone close to Gordon Brown has registered domain names, and I fully understand why he would want the credit. However, you took it one step further and said that it 'proved' there was a website... which may have been an exclusive, but there is no evidence to support that.

An interesting point Leon, but to be fair who careS? Blogs are just personal websites with a guestbook script. That's all mine is, I just hate doing comment all the time.

On the whole backend thing, as I mentioned in Iain's comment, I am referring to the necessary backend systems that must become involved in order to host a website, primarily DNS.

p.s. Bob, you really should find someone to make your word verifcation actually change. It's been the same thing for months which makes it pretty useles.

dizzy, it seems to have stopped the spam so I'm not sure how it is useless? You should be aware of my lack of technical knowledge by now.

Blogs are just personal websites with a guestbook script. That's all mine is... ~ Dizzy

True, but that's a rather diffident comment from someone desperate for some MSM attention.

Fair enough Bob. I have a habit of thinking like a hacker you see. Hence I see it and think "hmmm I could write a script that got round that so easily" - not that I would of course, better things to do with my time, and it's horribly unethical and unprofessional too.

Channel 4 News seemed to think it was a story. Good enough for them, good enough for me.

What an interesting way of judging the truth. Don't times (and values) change, eh?

Iain:

At least Dizzy has the good sense to equivocate on his findings sufficiently to give himself a big of wiggle room if he's followed his nose up a blind alley - which he has BTW.

You seem to think that he's 'proved' the existence of a Brown campaign website - he's done nothing of the sort - and that this might hint at unregistered campaign donations, which as David Davis's former major domo you should certainly know is not necessarily the case even if such a website was being developed - or have you forgotten that only donations over £1,000 have to registered unless the come from an impermissible donor or unidentifiable source (in which case they can't be accepted anyway) and only then when the money changes hands, that volunteer time does not count as a gift-in-kind and that the Electoral Commission has no jurisdiction over campaign expenditure