Posted on 08/05/2024 9:21:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Jeremy Green Eche took a chance and purchased the website HarrisWalz.com for $8.99 in 2020 when then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California was seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
“I just tried to grab her name and all the heartland governors I could think of,” he recalled Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Four years later, if Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Eche could be looking at a payday. He is willing to sell it — and a slate of over a dozen other Harris websites — for $15,000, he says.
This is not a new scenario for the 36-year-old trademark lawyer in New York City’s Brooklyn borough. Eche is a cyber squatter, a person who buys a domain with someone else’s name or brand for very little money, hoping to sell it to that person or brand for a large profit in the subsequent months or years. It is also called domain investing, given it can reap significant rewards.
In 2011, five years before Hillary Clinton selected Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to be her running mate in the presidential race, Eche — then known as Jeremy Peter Green, before he got married — purchased ClintonKaine.com. After the former secretary of state made the pick, the squatter offered it to the campaign for a hefty return. They declined, so he sold it for $15,000 to a digital marketing company that turned out to be the Trump campaign. The website pushed anti-Clinton news with “Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc” emblazoned at the bottom. …
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Covering a few bases, I’d wager. I mean really...what would it cost to hold Harris/Christie 2024?
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Large Minnesota Cities are now Hellholes.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will get you killed.
I think they’re pissed because Shapiro’s name got out there. I can’t believe anyone would want the Minnesota slayer.
My real life last name was owned by a distant relative in Virginia who was a realtor. He died fairly young, but before I could grab my own name, a squatter bought it and wanted $3,000. My real last name is uncommon, so he probably won’t find a taker for it. He’s had it for almost 20 years now, and has made no money off of it. I settled for the .net version.
A Bucket ‘O Chicken for every state in the Union, and ALL of our territories, if the buyer was Chris Christie.
Eche was called Green before he was married… I wonder… maybe this is why they describe him like a clever entrepreneur and not a greedy exploiter.
He bought the domain for 8.99 and a bunch of other domains, so it wasn’t that great of a deal on its own. He also has been paying domain registration fees annually at least and probably as much as the original 8.99. So each domain cost 40 bucks. He probably won’t get 15000 because they can simply take the name from him if he isn’t actually using it. It makes for a good fantasy though.
It’s not big money for a campaign...the Dems should pay the man, congratulation him for his investment acomen, and for his foresight.
He can expect a SS visit.
$8.99
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