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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it.
Now THIS is how it's done
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/trumpkennedycenter-org-website-taken-comedian-174317463.html
As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, Yep, that names going on the building, explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with South Park and Mad TV credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. All year, Morton followed news of Trumps takeover of the institution - how the president purged many of its existing board members, replaced them with loyalists, then announced plans to personally host the Kennedy Center Honors - and in August he snapped up the rights to both trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com.
The rest, he writes in an email interview with The Post, followed on schedule.
Its not uncommon for people to speculatively buy website domains that could be valuable one day, often in an attempt to turn a profit. Registering a new domain usually costs around $15 to $30. But if you want one thats already been purchased, the owner could jack up the price significantly.
Morton isnt in the game to sell off his domains; hes got websites for about 50 of them. Instead, he buys them with the express purpose of turning them into seemingly legit websites that, upon closer inspection, often skewer their namesakes.
BurnDoubt
(1,362 posts)wolfie001
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(316,394 posts)Ingenuity and Activism!
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Rocknation
(44,970 posts)for the rights to LeonardoDiCaprio.com -- though trumpkennedycenter.GOV is probably still available.
Rocknation
NJCher
(42,287 posts)snip
As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, Yep, that names going on the building, explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer
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But he was also attuned to trumpian bs because he writes for South Park.
Well played, comedy writer.
LetMyPeopleVote
(174,158 posts)MontanaMama
(24,604 posts)If youre on instagram or Threads, I highly recommend following him. The heartburn he gives the nutters is entertaining to say the least.
usonian
(23,220 posts)Comment on the finished version.

ForgedCrank
(3,005 posts)irrelevant.
All of the government websites are listed under the .gov root domain, no one else is allowed to own or register them.
NJCher
(42,287 posts)For comedic purposes.