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Friday, March 21, 2003

IraqiFreedom.com

The capture of this domain is amusingly reported as the first success of the Iraqi war in this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required):

So when ex-Marine and Gulf War veteran Darryl Pollock heard the Pentagon had officially launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom," he took it as a call to arms.

No, the 40-year-old night shift employee at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. didn't rush to put on his old uniform. He charged straight online and single-handedly captured the first valuable territory of the war -- the iraqifreedom.com Web site.

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