Reply #1: preventing Denial of Service attacks

[gmoney]

...word is you can order a "denial of service" attack to shut down virtually any website for as long as you want -- just send money to some offshore, outsourced tech guys who will flood the server with requests, effectively shutting down the website. (Similar to what happens when a small site is mentioned on TV or something -- or what Rush ordered his minions to do to Votergasm.org a week or so back.)

Perhaps this indicates they're planning an assault on johnkerry.com, etc. as the election draws near?

Another thing it might be is just cheapness... don't want to pay for bandwidth to be used serving pages to people outside the US who won't vote. Except for those expats and soldiers sending absentee ballots... but who counts them?

For what it's worth, I think the Showtime cable channel website has the same policy because they don't see the point in serving content to countries that can't buy their service.

What's more alarming is the "disappearing" of content from the whitehouse.gov site, a PUBLICLY owned site that is supposed to keep a record of * press conferences, etc. Apparently, some of the more embarrassing ones have vanished in recent weeks.