Predecessor to Arabella and ActBlue. Tightened up the gaps to centralize and hide the foreign funding later.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/china-based-fundraiser-linked-to-illegal-foreign-donations/amp/

(2012) “China-Based Fundraiser Linked to Illegal Foreign Donations”

“ The groundbreaking new study, authored by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), highlights the "curious case" of Obama.com, a website previously, and possibly still, owned by Obama campaign bundler and frequent White House visitor Robert W. Roche.

The website—which is not one of the hundreds of different domain names owned by the Obama campaign—is examined at length in the report as a major potential gateway for illegal foreign donations to the campaign.

Visitors to the site, more than two-thirds of which are located outside the United States, are redirected to the Obama campaign’s main donation page at barackobama.com.

The GAI investigation found numerous links to Obama.com on foreign blog sites and forum boards, links that "increase the probability that foreign nationals will try to donate to the Obama campaign." Furthermore, the GAI discovered that search engine optimization (SEO) techniques were employed at some point in order to generate foreign traffic to Obama.com.”