Um ... excuse me? Bush White House misappropriating an official government domain name?

From today's press gaggle with White House Press Lizard Scott McClellan:

Also today, regarding Social Security, I want to bring one other issue to your attention, or one other matter. The Treasury Department is launching a Social Security website, strengtheningsocialsecurity.gov. And this is a site that will help with our outreach and education efforts to the American people. It will focus on the problems facing Social Security and the need for a bipartisan solution. The site will also serve as an information center for all the travel that's going on over this 60-day period that we've previously announced. So it will track some of the events by Cabinet officials and the President and White House -- senior White House officials, as well. And it will provide updates on the latest speeches and fact sheets and other materials for people to learn more about our efforts to strengthen Social Security this year.

Pardon my French but WTF? To the best of my knowledge, the entire ".gov" domain is off limits for partisan hackery. According to this policy paper,

Agencies Must Use Government Domains: Every public federal government web site must be established in the .gov or .mil domain to communicate to the public that these are web sites which they can trust to be official government information. This requirement applies to any web site that is funded entirely by the U.S. Government and presents official government information, even if that web site resides on a non-federal government owned computer system.

Rationale: People looking for official government information must be confident that is what they are getting. The .mil and .gov domains are restricted to government agencies; using these exclusive domains assures the public that these are official government sites and that a government agency is accountable for the site’s content. Having all federal web sites in the .gov and .mil domains will also ensure that they are retrievable through the FirstGov government-wide search engine.

In simple terms, the entire ".gov" domain is for official use only for government departments, and is off limits for Republican propaganda. Who's got the clout to raise hell over this?

UPDATE: And this isn't the first time they've tried this. Read about the brouhaha that ensued when the GOP registered the partisan site "GOP.gov" here and here. And here, too.