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Two years ago, two of the Washington Post's political reporters urged the paper to start a separate political website. The paper turned them down, and those two guys—John Harris and Jim Vandehei—left the Post and launched Politico.com. Now, the Post has decided it does want to launch a separate political site. But! There was a SLIGHT PROBLEM.

When the Post went to get their preferred domain name, PostPolitics.com, they found out that it was already owned—by Politico. So the Post had to pay Politico $20,000 to get the name back.

That moment was probably the closest that John Harris has ever come to exclaiming "Boo-ya, bitches."

[Washington CP via The Slog]