In April, 2007 The Chattanooga Times Free Press wrote this:
During the 2005-06 election cycle the Republican National Committee paid Smartech more than $3 million for Web hosting, e-mail programming and other Web services, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Averbeck has developed a "Smart communicator" network for political candidates that links e-mails, targeted mailings and automated phone messages to help candidates quickly communicate with supporters. The network builds off the central database and record Smartech has developed over the past decade.
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Smartech is the nameserver for more than 800 domain names, according to Web sites that track such information. One domain name set up by the RNC and hosted on a Smartech server is gwb43.com, which appeared on correspondence between White House officials discussing U.S. attorney vacancies, according to The Associated Press.
Jeff Averbeck, the majority owner of Smartech and Airnet, has denied backing up Rove’s e-mail that passed through his company’s servers.