You have probably heard of cars.com. If not, I’m sure that you can imagine that such a domain name comes at a high premium. Ranking well for a keyword like “Cars” is quite lucrative for web based business. In fact, most companies that own such premium domains will also purchase related domains, such as the .net, .org, and .us version. They do this to capture mistypes from direct traffic, and to prevent competitors from piggybacking off of their brand recognition.

Google. inherently credits .gov domains as trustworthy and authoritative. In fact, it’s built right into the algorithm. When Google. sees a .gov domain, it automatically ranks it high in the search results. But owners of premium domain names can not do anything to compete with the potential of a domain name that matches theirs exactly, but has a .gov domain. This is because private citizens and private industries can not purchase a .gov domain. Only the government can do that.

In just a few short weeks since it’s creation, cars.gov ranks second for the term cars, as seen in this screenshot.

Cars.gov can automatically rank for a term that would cost the average Internet marketing firm thousands, or even millions of dollars to compete. In fact, that’s exactly what they did. Within two weeks of creating the cars.gov domain, Google was ranking it on the first page of search results for the keyword cars. Additionally, the cars.gov cash for clunkers program gets free advertising from Toyota, Nissan, auto dealerships, and any auto related advertising where automakers and auto dealers are using the government program to attempt to drive up sales. This is not competing in the marketplace. This is anticompetitive.

So, we have had the Bush stimulus 1 and the Obama stimulus 2 plunge the country into record setting trillion dollar deficits, and nothing to show for it but an economy that is circling the drain. We have a tax cheat as treasury secretary, and a cabinet full of crooks and criminals. President Obama has hijacked the auto industry and the banking industry, with hopes of also hijacking the health care industry. This administration also hopes to micromanage all of our lives with it global warming hoax tax and regulations.

Now, President Obama and the rest of his crooked cronies are taking their first measures at undercutting the Internet marketplace.

It’s difficult enough for a home based business start up to compete in the cutthroat environment of Internet commerce without having the US government to compete with. I wonder, with this administration’s obvious contempt for private industry, how long will it be before the US government says, “Sorry cars.com, but your domain unfairly competes with ours,” and just take the domain.

Don’t think that will ever happen? Don’t ever underestimate an administration that thinks “I’m from the government and I”m here to help” is a comforting sentiment.

I’m going to have to sell a lot of Barack Obama Collectible Million Dollar Bills to stay afloat. The funny money you’ll find on the other end of that Amazon affiliate link is worth about 5 cents, which is about how much the US Dollar will be worth in 6 months. And I was saving up for that unicorn Obama promised but never delivered. Damn.

I’m scrapping plans to buy unicorn.com because Obama will just start unicorn.gov and screw me.

I’m sure I’ll be fine, though. The government just arrived and they’re here to help.