This is an interesting story and the part about using LLMs to re-build the site today is cool, but the LinkedIn-esque AI writing is really disrespectful.
That's fair criticism. I did use AI to help draft and clearly didn't scrub it thoroughly enough. The story is real and the research is mine, but the presentation could be more authentic. I'll take the lesson for the next one
I'm re-reading the title and it is a little misleading (my apologies). The answer is a little bit complicated: the domain has been registered since 1999 (27 years). The initial site ran from 1999 to 2007 (8 years) and came back as a single page app around the 2008 election (~2 years). In February he re-created the site and hopefully it beats its predecessor's record!