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Owner of ClintonKaine.com wants $90,000
A lawyer and artist in Washington D.C. hopes to gain tens of thousands of dollars from a prescient decision he made years ago. Jeremy Peter Green, a 28-year-old who goes by the pen name Jeremy Pegg, bought the ClintonKaine.com domain for $8 in 2011. Now that Hillary Clinton is officially the Democratic Party nominee for president and has chosen Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, Pegg says he wants $90,000 in exchange for handing over the domain name and control of the site.
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all the startups that buy expensive domains feed this nonsensic frenziness which creates an actual market for domains... a market of intermediaries that shouldn't exist
Stupidity is expensive. It makes people pay for shit like this.
I think it was Bierce who said that lottery is a tax you pay for being bad at math. This is similar but slightly stupider.
Maybe we could, you know, spend this money on fixing things like clean water access or vaccines for people in Africa? Surely human lives are more important than someone's shot at buying an expensive car?
ICANN has a cybersquatting rule that means if they wanted to the campaign could file for the site.