Trump campaign snaps up ClintonKaine.com
Jeb Bush is familiar with this strategy.
The next step of the 2016 Presidential election? Apparently, domain squatting. Wired reports that after Hillary Clinton's campaign declined to buy a domain consisting of her last name combined with that of her running mate, the owner sold it to her opponent. As noticed earlier today by a reporter for Politico, ClintonKaine.com hosts a Drudge Report-styled collection of negative headlines about its namesakes (and absolutely no bad news about its owner), with a small tag at the bottom indicating who owns the website.
The former owner snapped up the domain back in 2011 for $7.30, and USA Today reports he sold it for $15,000 after Clinton's campaign offered $2,000. Of course, the strategy is not making its first appearance in this year's race, as Donald Trump's campaign previously obtained JebBush.com as a redirect to its official website. Unless it's due to media coverage, it's hard to see who will run across a website that the previous owner said was getting 50 hits a day, but we suppose you have to do what you can for SEO.
