A Bernie supporter bought ClintonKaine.com for $8 in 2011. Now he wants $90,000 for it.

[wyldwolf]

And I thought I did well when I sold a domain name for $1500 in 2003.

A few months into the 2012 presidential primaries, a New York–licensed attorney named Jeremy "Pegg" Green made a strange, fortuitous decision: He purchased ClintonKaine.com.

"It just made sense to me at the time," he says. "Hillary Clinton was in contention for the nomination, and Tim Kaine was on the vice presidential shortlist."

It cost him $8.

Five years later, Green — a 28-year-old "lefty socialist" and ardent Bernie Sanders supporter — is demanding $90,000 for the domain name. Until "someone from the Hillary team" forks over the cash, the website will feature a series of comic strips made by Green, about a young witch named "Hillary Potter."

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/29/12320162/hillary-clinton-tim-kaine-website

[geek tragedy]

1. clever capitalist, that guy is nt

[ismnotwasm]

23. Right?

I caught that as well.

[NCTraveler]

2. Clinton needs to leave it be.

One of her greatest assets has always been the foolish attacks against her. How many people are going to go to it in the first place. A bunch of fellow Sanders supporters?

I get a couple of offers a year where people have bought variations of my companies name and want to sell it to me for a foolish amount of money. Not as much as being mentioned here. Guess it's easier than flipping houses. Capitalism is great, ain't it?

[leftofcool]

6. Good gawd! Did you read the site? Poor writing skills, poor composition.

[NCTraveler]

11. I was so close but didn't want to give it traffic.

I still might check it out at some point. I'm not that principled. Lol

[leftofcool]

3. Go ahead. There is no doubt already a Clintonkaine.net or .org

[pkdu]

20. Yep , one redirects to hillaryclinton.com and and other redirects to TimKaine.com nt

[Haveadream]

4. What happened to getting money out of politics?

[bigwillq]

5. I have a friend who does that

Buys domain names for cheap and then tries to sell them.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. I tried that a few times. When I was contacted, I realized that I wasn't a prick after all.

.


I signed over the names, one to John Deere, a few to banks, and a couple to small businesses.

Then, I contacted companies that I thought would make a nice fit and gave the domains to them.

Others, I just let expire for some other domain squatting shithead to try and shakedown someone.


Then, I stopped doing that all together.


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[avaistheone1]

7. Very clever.

Good for them.

[emulatorloo]

27. Maybe you can start a gofundme and raise 90k for the guy!

[JaneyVee]

8. A lefty socialist wants $90K!

[B Calm]

10. More like a predatory capitalist.

[emulatorloo]

26. +1

[enid602]

29. predatory

Thank God he doesn't run a pharmaceutical company.

[Orangepeel]

9. Eh, so what?

They should tell him to pound sand.

The only people who visit it will be going there to see what he puts there, and they've all made up their minds already. Anybody actually seeking information will go to hillaryclinton.com first, and the ad for the official site is still going to come up first in a Google search.

[dlwickham]

12. someone needs to contact JK Rowling

I think this might qualify as copyright infringement in regards to Harry Potter

[thucythucy]

14. Good point. Nt

[Beaverhausen]

17. Good idea

I work at Warner Bros. I'll send the link to the IP group.

[dlwickham]

21. Thank you!

I'm a huge Potter head and I hate to see crap like this. I know JKR is filthy rich but she's also damn generous and deserves every Knut she's made.

[Beaverhausen]

22. They said it's ok because it's a parody

[dlwickham]

24. damn

[beachbumbob]

13. Smart $8 investment...

[Bongo Prophet]

15. 2012 presidential primaries? Was that a thing? nt

[VOX]

18. "I got drunk that night and high-fived my friends."

Yeah, a real intellectual socialist, this guy. If it's true that he did turn down an offer of $30,000, well, he's a five-star lunkhead.

[Dem2]

19. Damned good guess

I'd offer him $2016 and say "take it or leave it."

[rug]

25. Send him $27.

[Chasstev365]

28. Did anyone buy Clinton&Kaine.com

Do it now!