The trademark lawyer Jeremy Green Throw36 years old, a kind of forecaster “domain registrar” He just sold it to a supposed Harris supporter for US$15,000according to American public radio NPR.
A couple of times a year, Eche logs on pages like GoDaddy and Name.com all kinds of hypothetical presidential candidacies. “I think it’s a lot of fun to register domains and have this kind of reward where I hit the jackpot and I get people to talk about me“, he declared.
This lawyer, who according to his profile on the social network Instagram has registered more than 4,000 successful domainswhich anticipated in 2020 the possibility that Joe Biden’s vice president would one day run for president, registered fifteen domains with her name and that of possible candidates “white men” to complete the formula.
Some of these patented names They were the governors’ J.B. Pritzker (state of Illinois), Jay Inslee (Washington) and Tim Walz (Minnesota), as well as that of the senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman.
Create domains to become famous
Eche pays regularly less than US$10 for registering the domains and the renewed annually hoping that a miracle like the one on Tuesday, with the announcement of Walz as vice-president on the Democratic ticket for the November 5 elections, can happen.
In 2016 he also got the domain right ClintonKaine.comwhen the then Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clintonwho lost to Donald Trump (2017-2021), elected the senator Tim Kaine from Virginia as his running mate.
Eche told the radio that the campaign of Clinton offered him US$2,000 So he declined the offer for the domain, hoping to get $10,000. He then decided to sell it for $5,000 to an anonymous buyer who turned out to be from the Trump campaign. The campaign used it to publish news against Clinton during the election.
This time, shortly after announcing the governor of Minnesota for the ticket of the first black vice president of the country, a alleged Harris follower paid the US$15,000“I didn’t want to wait, probably in vain, for the Harris campaign to contact me and risk not selling it“, Eche told the radio.
Source: Ambito
