Domain trolls are choosing politics over getting paid
Here’s a simple, high-profile way to express your political beliefs: snatch up a presidential candidate’s domain.
Earlier this month, as former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced she was running for president, it was discovered that CarlyFiorina.org was directing to a website marking Fiorina’s layoffs at HP with 30,000 sad-face emoticons. The strategy lit up news sites — and with good reason. What presidential candidate, in this day and age, doesn’t prepare enough in advance to grab every tangentially related domain name before making an announcement?
Plenty, apparently. Ted Cruz doesn’t own TedCruz.com. As flagged by Gizmodo, HillaryClinton.net is now redirecting to Fiorina’s website. And Clinton isn’t immune: supporters,…
Source:: The Verge
